Production/institution company research and planning

http://www.hammerfilms.com/

For the production/institution company we were thinking of Hammer films due to that they are renowned for doing dark, spooky, horror classics (The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster etc.)
but they have more recently done thrillers and horror thrillers. E.G   The Quiet Ones.

Other institution companies are:

Universal,

Warner Brothers,

and 20th Century Fox.

 

Thriller Story Boards

drawn by Tamsin Stacey

mixcraft test

 In our group each of us had a mess-around with Mixcraft 5 and this is what I made.

 

location planning

We are planning to have a scene set at a church/graveyard.

Thiller sinopsis

First two minutes

The film starts in a dark room, there are no lights, just candles. There are lodes of different size candles all over the room. The camera moves through the room, there is no one in the room. The camera moves into a second room .The second room is also dark and filled with candles. There’s a man in this room. This man is dressed in a priest outfit. He is kneeling on the floor drawing a cult sign in blood. The priest stands up and leaves. The priest enters a church. We then see a dead body inside the cult sign. Tittle credits. He then talks to another priest.

The whole film

The film is about a priest who kills criminals for God. The film will start with the priest inside of a house, he has just killed someone. He then returns to his church and takes to another priest. The film follows him as he kills the evil people of the world. Each criminal that he kills will have a flashback of what they have done, in black and white. The police are looking for the murderer. At the end of the film the priest will set himself on fire.

Thiller opening Scene script 1st daft

FADE IN:
 
INT. HOUSE – FIRST ROOM – NIGHT
 
The room is dark; there are no lights on, just candles. There are candles everywhere. The camera moves through the room into a second room.
 
HOUSE - SECOND ROOM
 
The second room is also dark and filled with candles. There’s a man kneeling on the floor. He is the PRIEST. The priest is drawing a cult sign on the floor in blood.
 
CLOSE UP: the cult sign on the floor.
 
ON SCENE
 
The priest stands up.
 

CUT TO:

 
EXT. CHURCH – NIGHT
 
The priest walks to the church door. Stood at the door is a NUN.
 

The nun

It’s a cold night, Father.

 

The priest

It’s never too cold to do the work of the Lord, Sister.

 

The priest and nun both cross themselves. The nun walks off. The priest enters the church.
 

FADE TO BLACK:

 

The priest (v.o)

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. He is the shepherd that leads man to the light during the darkest hours. For he is truly the keeper and protector of man.  Romans 13:4.

FADE IN:

INT. HOUSE – SECOND ROOM – NIGHT

There is a dead body in the middle of the cult sign.

Tittle sequence.     

 

By Jack Millward