Mini Brief: Pre-Production Script Writing

Before filming we needed to write a script for our sequence. We wanted to include as many conventions of the thriller genre, so our first move was to have two roles: the antagonist and the protagonist. In our sequence the antagonist would have clear power and authority over the protagonist. We wanted to create suspense by writing dialogue that alluded to something not known by the audience. For this we thought an interrogation scene would be great, as we could then work in violence (a convention in thrillers) and film in a small cramped environment with low lighting to mimic an abandoned building (another few conventions of thrillers.) We wanted to finish on a cliff-hanger as that would create tension and replicate the feeling viewers would have if they were watching a clip from a feature- length thriller film. In our script "I" stands for interrogator (Antagonist) and "H" stands for hostage (Protagonist).