Film Brief

For our film we decided that we wanted to do the crime-thriller genre. Crime-thrillers are crime films, that have a slightly scary edge to them. So normally there is a criminal, which is the crime aspect of the film, but the criminal doesn't do normal "criminal" things like stealing, they tend to murder people, and they tend to do it in obvious, creepy ways.

We wanted to use this genre for our film as we did a crime theme for our preliminary task and we really enjoyed making it. When we were thinking up ideas for what we could do as a film, we decided we wanted to do a murder, as it made the film a bit more interesting to watch, but also quite specific to the genre.

In order to do a crime thriller, we knew we needed a murderer, and we knew we needed people who had been murdered. We looked around for places which look quite creepy, like the woods, and we decided we wanted the girls killed in a variety of ways, so we needed to think up ways in which they could be killed.

We learned about different film shots and decided we wanted jump cuts with quick edits and dramatic music, in order to build the tension and create atmosphere. We also decided that we quite wanted to have a voice over, of a news report about the different girls that had been murdered which eventually built up and was just white noise, until it suddenly stopped. For this we had to learn how to use audacity, and try and make it sound quite crisp without background noise.

An example of on of the biggest box office hits for the genre of thriller is The Dark Knight Rises. It had a budget of $250,000,000 (estimated). In it's opening weekend, it made $160,887,295 in the United States. It made a gross of $448,139,099 in the USA, and this was calculated on the 13 December 2012.

An example of the most critically acclaimed thrillers of all time is a film called North by Northwest. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it is about a man who is mistaken for a spy. It 100% on the Tomatometer on Rotten Tomato, and 94% of audiences enjoyed watching the film. It comes 17th in the list of best movies of all time.

One of the most acclaimed thriller director and producers of all time is Alfred Hitchcock. He was nominated for 25 awards, and he won 31. Thats in total 56 awards for his works. These are from Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and a few other less known awards. Below is a list for the number of things he has been credited for:

• Director (69 credits)
• Producer (28 credits)
• Actor (38 credits)
• Writer (22 credits)
• Miscellaneous Crew (13 credits)
• Art Director (9 credits)
• Assistant Director (5 credits)
• Soundtrack (4 credits)
• Editor (3 credits)
• Production designer (1 credit)
• Set director (1 credit)
• Thanks (23 credits)
• Self (41 credits)
• Archive footage (87 credits)

Thats 344 credits in total. He was incredibly acclaimed.

An acclaimed thriller actor is Kevin Spacey. Hvaving stared in 22 Crime/Thriller films, he's kind of an expert on playing the part. Out of all of his films he has recieved 55 awards, and has been nominated another 50 times. These are academy awards, golden globes, emmy awards, BAFTAs and loads more.