Hollywood Prison style

In our thriller we want to go for a very hollywood, american style prison, Including high security, fences barb wired, electrical fences, bright orange jumpsuits, armed heavy guards, big scary dogs, to really set the scene of a grim and dark environment were criminals are sentenced. To pull this off we need to find a location that has heavy barbed wired fences, maybe a watch tower, heavy gates and a large dusk building for the prison

The bright orange jump suits also will pull off the very stereotypical holly wood style.Our main character, the escaping prisoner, needs to look very fearsome and dangerous to pull off a very stereotypical hollywood prisoners. the prisoner need to big and muscly to make the audience more thrilled and to set the scene of the dangerous environment. makeup including tattoos and scars, cuts and scabs add to the effect. 

All these features dramatise the whole prison effect and thats what holly wood does, it makes it more exiting and thrilling to watch. the holly wood effect on our thriller will empathises it a lot more in terms of a thriller

Raze up, CGI explosion

This is one of the old Thrillers made last year, in this thriller there is a really good example of a CGI animated explosion as the car blows to pieces. i think that the editing in this was very good, the explosion looked very life like and i think that an explosion like this in our thriller for the gas station explosion would really work when the convict throws the lighter behind him after lighting his cig and the gas station to light up and then explode. the music in the scene really builds up the tension, the music gets louder as the towl burns closer to the pump socket and when the beat drops the explosion comes in.

Law Abiding Citizen

This is a shot of the outside of a prison in the film Law Abiding Citizen. which is a film about a man who get revenge on the murders that killed his family and gets convicted and sentence, who still manages to kill people from his cell. This is a really good example of a prison escape film as in the film the convict manages to get out of prison to kill and return by the night to his cell by creating an underground tunnel that leads him out of the prison. This is the ideal shot we are looking for in our film as it has a , van parked outside the prison gates, with a really good shot of the prison and security such as barb wire fencing, guards and dogs.


















This is another ideal shot we want to use in our film. this is the shot of the dodgy trolly wheel thats flickers when being pushed by the convict. this is again from the film Law Abiding Citizen. when a steak is being delivered to to the convict as a source of bribery. this is a low level shot and close up of the dodgy trolly wheel with the burry background approaching as the trolly is pushed forward.

In the film the main character who we follow in the film turns bad. in the beginning of the film the character is good to us and we want him to succeed because we know he is a good guy, throughout the film we start to loose grip with the character and he turns bad ans starts killing people. in our thriller, our main character is bad aswel as he is a guilty convict who is escaping only to cause more havoc, very much like law abiding citizen. i only discovered the film about 3 weeks after we thought of our idea and film happend to satisfy a few of our ideal shots. We dont even know that the main character exists until he jumps out the back of that van in the gas station and i think that it will satisfy the audience need for contact with the main character.

The Characters

The Characters

The escaping prisoner:

• Big, Broad, Hench
• Tall
• Intimidating
• Scars
• Tattoos

Uniform

• Orange Jump suit
• Hand cuffs
• Heavy Boots

The Van Driver:

• Scared
• Skinny
• Dweeby
• Pressured

Uniform:

• Dark blue or grey outfit
• Same coloured hat as outfit

Security guard:

• Big,
• Intimidating
• Armed
• Security Digs, maybe

Uniform:

• Dark Blue or Black prision security outfits
• Heavy Boots

New Prison Break Idea

Beginning: The sequence starts out with a dodgy trolley wheel moving quickly down the hallway. It cuts to the ceiling lights following them down the hall, flickering. The camera then tilts down as we see a man pushing the trolley down the hall. Next the over the shoulder shot changes to a POV shot from the point of the view of the man pushing the trolley. After this we get a shot of the content of the cart, which is a couple of large laundry bags. As he pushes the cart along the hallway, we see a door up ahead which he opens and immediately outside is a van with open doors and two security guards on either side of it. Next we see the bags being flung into the van and get a close up shot of the doors being shut and the van driving away all in one cut.

Middle: After the van drives away we get a POV from the van driver looking back at the prison to set the scene of where the bag has just come from. This makes the audience aware that the corridor belongs to a prison. Inside the van we get a shot of the bag as it slides form left to ride due to the cars movement. The driver looks into rear-view-mirror with a devious expression. Next we get a view of the van from the outside, to show where it is driving (this may vary depending on where we shoot). While on the road, we get the opening credits and the title “Prison Break”. The van pulls up to a gas station. The driver exits the vehicle and purposely misplaces the gas so that it is leaking onto the side of the van and the ground. He then bangs on the back door of the car twice to signify to the man in the bag that he has the okay to go. We watch the driver walk away form the van with no intention of returning.

End: Next we see the bag slice open but we don’t see who is inside. We see the security guard who was unaware of the bag opening, stand up but then fall back down because his neck has been snapped. Next we hear the van doors open as we only see the feet of this unidentified man jump out (shot is taken from under the van). He walks a little before we get an up-close shot of his mouth as he lights a cigarette. In slow motion we see the lighter flick open and the flame come out. He then throws back the lighter onto the leaking car as the car explodes. END.

How to Create a Storyboard for Your Video Shoot

We have gotten to the stage in our thriller when we have  to start building up a story board to plan each scene, camera angles editing, a rough story board and mapping flow of our thriller before we start to get into the detail. Building a story board is crucial to any shooting sequence. It maps out your ideas so that you can refer back to it and you have everything noted down so you don’t forget some of you ideas.

The story board doesn’t have to be neat or perfects is just a basic outline of what’s and who’s in the shot. The location of the shot and all the angles you use. A storyboard can just be a drawing of the shot that you want to take it can be a simple as that. Storyboarding your ideas helps you to evolve you ideas. It is a great a form brainstorming whilst progressing along the way.

In Our Group me and Alicia started to come up with other good prison break ideas for our thriller because we loved the idea of a prison break but we wanted to vary our ideas.
We started researching on line of good prison break that have happened before and we tried to think of some ourselves.
We came up with a variety of ideas of which were:

Laundry Van escapes
Knocking out and stealing electricians or plumbers costume to escape
Taking out security guard
Hostages
Digging or chiseling out, for example Shaw Shank Redemption
Zip wire
Through sewage
Outside or guard helper
Bribe
Climbing over fence
Shank
Faking death using capsule, girl friend of prisoner could give the capsule to thy prisoner from mouth to mouth kissing over visitor time