Influences For Our Thriller Film

During our year we have looked closely at our thriller introductions, and the plans we made. We concentrated for a time on the themes of our thriller. Some of which were going to be obvious:

Corruption: as the young boy, Simon, will be robbing a house, and given a gun, which is not that he is used to.
Moral Ambiguity: who is right and who is wrong, is Simon to blame for the stealing, or the gang leader? is the man's reaction to Simon being in his house the right way to act?
Mystery: as we're not sure why they picked that house, who the man is (as we never see his face) and what is going to happen.

We also looked at styles of our thrillers, and in our group we decided on gangster, and modern. We wanted a modern style to the clothing, speech and setting. We debated having the film in black and white, however due to the modernised style and the gangster theme, we decided against it.
The sub-genre is gangster, as the gang has a gangster-appearance and are dressed and act in that of a modern teenage gangster.
We also discussed what films would have influenced our thriller, in the terms of styles and how it is shot. We chose the following:

- Kidulthood & Adulthood: These two films are sequel to one another, and are a great influence as the main cast of the film are young corrupt teenagers, in adolescence. The characters act as if the world is a gangster life, but we find out that not all of these hard nut gangsters live in the same environment. This makes it relevant to Simon's life, as he was an innocent teenager gone corrupt, choosing a different lifestyle, but still living in his old one.
- Football Factory: This film is a slight influence as to the story line, as a character is caught inside anothers house.
- Layer Cake: This is a good influence for our shot types that we planned, and the location we decided to use is like that of "XXXX"'s house, urban and on a busy-ish road.
- Millers Crossing: This film also has the themes of deceit and loyalty.
- Sin City: The final influence is this, as the sounds and setting are urban, and we will have similar sound affects. Another thing is the number of phone calls in the shots, and how you can hear the voice from the other line, which we are hoping to achieve.