For our task, we chose to make a thriller disguised as a romance film. Our film is a story about a man and a woman who see each other at the train station every day, as the day go on, the woman becomes more involved with the man’s life by leaving him post-it notes and buying him breakfast without ever actually meeting. When they finally meet at the end of the film, we see the two characters flirting with each other, and then disappearing into an alleyway where the woman kills the man, shown by his twitching fingers on the floor as she steps over him with no remorse.
To keep the faces hidden but to show emotion within the characters, we used extreme close ups on the eyes and lips, as they are very voyeuristic features. I thought this was good as it conveyed the emotion to the audience, and is also a key conventions within both romance and thriller genres. During post production, we had the idea of having the entire film in black and white, all except for the two main characters, however when it came to editing, we didn’t have enough time and were unable to do so.
