Essex Boys

Essex Boys


Influence:
I particularly like the meanings and connotations behind the locations within the opening; gritty derelicts, unwanted. This has influenced our choice of locations for our thriller. For example, we will take into consideration the tone we want to achieve, and how this can be portrayed through our location; dark, wet, empty streets or open, light spaces.

How do Thriller's tap into our fears and our everyday lives?
By using familiar, everyday locations, thrillers such as Essex Boys create a sense of danger, often quite sinister due to the plot taking place in such an "every day" location. It therefore makes the crime and violence happening within the thriller seem somewhat closer to the audience's experiences.
Other thrillers also tap into the audience's fears. For example, in "Se7en" and "L.A Noire", the victim or, culprit, is often unknown and, at the start, quite ordinary. This unsettles the audiences by making them aware that it could happen to anyone. Also, as analysed in "The Thrid Man" Sewer Scene, claustrophic spaces and extreme lighting/shadows poses a sense of confindement and restraint on the audience; the rather undesriable situtaion makes the audience feel trapped and as a result, scared.

How might our Thriller do the same?
When considering our thriller opening, we aim to tap into the fears of the audience by highlighting crime (even more so murder), within an extremely recognisable and relatable location of Norwich. Although this takes places in a dark and dingey alley way, the audience are fully aware, from the establishing shots, that the alley way is in Norwich. "Welcome to Norwich. A fine city." or is it....?