To prepare for our prelim we got ideas from other thriller movies, we also watched the thriller openings that other students had made to ensure that we used a range of camera shots and angles.
Openings on the blog also helped us as they were categorised into subgenres so we could focus on what a psychological thriller looked like. We saw Arlington Road but it wasn't what we were aiming for as that was heavily stylised to give a very distorted and confusing look. We looked at more narrative openings and we found 'The Panic Room', which had establishing shots of the city, then proceeded to show more of the characters. We thought this would be effective to use as a guide, and also helped us with the positioning of the titles and the order of them.
We planned the shots by using other thriller openings as a guide, by seeing the shots we were able to suggest how we were going to shoot and where. As we had little time to film our prelim we kept the location simple, in our college. As for the shots, we decided to plan some, and then allow for others to be decided whilst filming, this would allow us to experiment with the same scene but different shots, to see which one was the most effective in its corresponding place.
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