Props

Props

Mobile Phone:

As our "Opening to a New Thriller Film" is set during a modern day Britain. We've decided to include a mobile phone as it will also establish the historical setting.

Our victim will use a mobile phone in our "Opening to a New Thriller Film". We'd like the phone to be simple and not "too high-tech", this is because our character and the phone can be represented as being linked to one another - they're both modern and simple to 'work' with.

This technique is also used in "Once Upon A Time In America" in-which a table lamp and a character called "Eve" are seen as being one object within the scene. When "Eve" enters the room, she turns on a lamp -  the lamp represents her presence. Later on, "Eve" tragically dies and the murderers turn off the lamp on their way out of the room. This identifies "Eves" death has been acknowledged.

The phone will also represent our character's tragic "death" scene - keeping in mind, the audience will only think this  because our film suggests this happens to our character. But instead, he's only knocked out. We've came up with an alternate ending after the titles which the phone is seen laying on the ground ringing or even a scene where the phone is dropped on the ground in slow-mo. This could establish that our victim has been taken away, or even "left for dead".