Inspirational Post-Miss Miller

Inspirational post
20-11-2013
Vasil Nikolov

If you wish to create a thriller that will grab the audience from the street and comfort them into the cinema, then the creator of the mentioned pictures needs inspiration from different movies in order to perceive ideas that would influence wise suggestions. I have watched a few thriller films and looked at their cinematography, sound and the Mise-en-scene in order to receive inspirations.  

One of the films from which I received an inspiration is Kill Bill. More importantly it is the scene where the blonde woman has stopped in front of the house at an establishing shot. The message which was imbedded in this scene was that action is not excluded from a normal neighborhood. This would surprise the audience as they would relate to having a similar house in a similar neighborhood and cause them to be surprised. When we held a meeting and both George and Danni agreed for us to include this shot.

In the Reservoir dogs’ clip that I analyzed, the director used cheerful music while the bad guy is cutting the ear of a policeman that passed nearby during the shooting between mobsters. From this clip I to suggest the use of cheerful music while a terrible event is happening. This will create confusion between the relationship of the audience and the villain. From all of the clips that one has analyzed, I concluded that there should not be a lot of dialogue. This is why I will not add a great amount of dialogue in the thriller in order to try and create as much of the 3S' as possible. 

In order to keep the identity hidden from the audience, I had taken inspiration from American Psycho, in order to show to the audience that a person in a business suit is not really a 

I had taken another inspiration from Jaws. In particular it was the scene, where a female was killed by the shark and then being followed by complete silence and ringing of a bell. I wanted to use the sound tactics in order to make  the audience shocked when the attack from our killer was happening and then once the female was killed, the sound would stop, ending the scene with candles that one dies while the other flickers (meaning that the woman has died while the life of the husband is unknown. This creates an enigma).

Another inspiration which I received was from Harry Potter 2. In particular it was the scene where the students read the message on the walls. This inspired me to add a scene where the husband runs to the bathroom to wash his face and once he notices the bloody message, he would then shock himself and run away. The message will not be seen by the audience until they see how the character rises to see his face in the mirror.

One of the scenes which George suggested that we should use was from Shutter Island, where Leonardo Di Caprio walked through the prison. From that scene we decided to use the very low key lighting as it created suspense due to the reason that Di Caprio cannot see what is ahead of him and is wondering whether something will happen to happen to him. This is because the only light in the corridor is the flame he is holding in his hand and the light does not light the corridor efficiently. This creates suspense as both the audience and Di Caprio do not know whether someone is there and what might happen. This increases the suspense in the audience as they expect to see or hear a chilling or eerie music or see a ghost killer. 

This is why we would like to use this type of lighting in order to frighten my audience more easily.

There are other ideas that were taken as well, however more of the sound effects and cinematography shots were taken from George and Danni`s.