Thriller Pane

1- Title to the audience
2- Location and costume (establishing shot)
3- High angle shot
4- Prop and close up- (Use of the thriller convention of something out of the ordinary happening in ordinary situations- Her receiving the letter at school)
5- A thriller convention (gave a sense of danger)
6- Reaction shot showed with mid shot
7- Location
8- Long shot
9- Thriller convention (the build up of pictures gives a sense that the girl is being followed which follows the convention of building up suspense to the thrill of 'the unknown.' at the end.)

Sound Effects

We have added some tense music to certain parts of the sequence to help build up tension in crucial parts of the scenes. We also added louder more dramatic sounds when the titles came up to keep the viewer interested.

Risk Assesment.

Shot List

1. Girl bends down to pick up something from the floor. Location: Lockers.

2. Close up of the text she receives by her locker. Everything is in focus. Props: Phone. Location: By the lockers in college.

3. Zoom in into the girls locker over her shoulder. Location: School corridor locker. The girl will be in focus but the locker will be blurred then blackout.

4. Long shot of girl sat in refectory with her friends. Location: Refectory. Slow motion and her friends blurred and she is in full focus with echoed laughs around her.

5. Close up of letter and girls hand holding the letter. Location: Refectory. Props: Letter. Letter in shot to see what it says.

6. Reaction shot of girl after reading the letter. Location: Refectory. Props: Letter. Mid shot- See the girl holding the letter and her face as she has read it.

7. Close up of a photo being developed. Location: Dark room. Props: Tongs, Photo/ Contact sheet. Split screen of developing photo and character in scene.

8. Long shot of the girl walking through the woodland area. Location: Woody area. (handheld camera work) Girl in the middle of the shot walking.

9. Camera is getting closer and closer to the character. The clicking of the camera speeds up as the pace of the girl speeds up too. Location: woodland area.

10. Close up of girl falling/tripping over the branch. Girl tripping and hear a scream as she falls.

11. Blackout while she screams.

Script Draft -

INT: College corridor: Day time
A teenage girl is in the college corridor stood by her locker collecting her schoolbooks. She receives a text from an unknown number. She reads the text and realises the sender must be nearby because it is talking about something in her locker. She looks around there is no one there.

INT: Refectory: Morning

The girl receives a letter through the post one morning addressed to herself via newspaper cuttings. The girls is suspicious and worried and takes the letter into college to open with her friends. The letter reads 'have you guessed who i am yet?'

INT: The dark Room: After School
The sender of the texts is busy processing photos of the teenage girl being followed in various different locations and places at different times of the day. The sender of the texts will have made a contact sheet for the viewer to see with one particular picture highlighted. The viewer will see the sender developing a photograph he has taken.

EXT: Woodland area: Afternoon

The teenage girl is walking alone through the woodland area after college when she trips over a fallen branch. She then receives another text from the same unknown number. The girl keeps looking over her shoulder because she's nervous, she starts to run as she's looking over her shoulder as the pace picks up she trips up and a black out ends the sequence. 

Memento Film Opening Analysis

The very first part of the opening, is accompanied by non-digetic music played by string based instruments, using long winded notes which create tension to the audience. Use of this in-depth music instantly introduces the genre of the film to us as an audience.

After around 20 seconds of the credits being on screen, we see what looks like a man's hand, holding a polaroid photo which shows a corner of a room with the walls covered in blood and a man lying on the floor, also covered in blood. Every 5 seconds the photo is shaken by the hand, and when it comes back into the screen the photo slowly fades and becomes blurrier. This has connotations of the fact he is trying to get rid of the memory which he has just created by his own actions, and as he has to shake the photo around 5 times it shows just how difficult it is proving to be to get the memory out of his head.

The camera then tracks the photograph going back into the camera, which shows the reversing of time. This type of behaviour instantly has the audience in a confused state of mind, as in reality things don't happen in reverse. Therefore this shows just how unstable his current state of mind is.

This reverse action continues into the next shot, where we see blood moving up a wall, a gun flying back into his hand, and the bullet flying back to the gun. The man who was evidently dead on the floor comes back to life, however this shot ends where the man was holding the gun up to the other mans head. This suggests that he cannot go past that memory, it is the only one that he remembers and it wont get out of his head.

The next shot shows a close up of 'Lenny's' eyes, and this shot is in black and white. This links to psychological thriller imagery.
It soon becomes clear to the audience that this is a flash back, Lenny has no scratches on his face, and black and white colored clips have connotations of going back in time (old style films). After the shot of his eyes, we then see a panning shot around the room, which establishes the location he is in.

Throughout the opening a voice over is used as a stream of consciousness to give you an insight into the psyche of the protagonist. Whilst this voice over is being played, we are shown Lenny sitting on a bed through a birds eye view shot, this really shows us his vulnerability and loneliness.