Props

Knife

This prop will be used in the opening for the victim getting stabbed by the antagonist. This prop is typical of the thriller genre because it is an everyday object that everyone owns and it is easily obtainable by anyone. This then links to that thrillers tend to be more realistic to add suspense to the thriller. This prop connotes death and darkness, the prop can also be seen as a foreshadow of someone that has been killed. The prop represents that the character welding the knife is murder. 

Big Notice Board (For Titles in the Opening)

This prop is used for putting up evidence and pictures of us; this will be used for the opening titles. This will also be used to put the title cards of the thriller opening within the thriller opening. This prop will be used for showing the opening titles for our thriller opening. Seen as our thriller opening is crime thriller it is used to piece together evidence. When we looked at other thriller openings, they would often use evidence to show the opening titles. When you see the notice board you actually see a notice board in crime thrillers you automatically think of dark thoughts. The prop represents police and an investigation.   

Evidence Markers

This prop is used for showing the evidence of a crime scene. These will be used when the protagonist walks through the crime scene, he will look at the different evidence that is shown by the evidence markers. It used in most thrillers that have something with crime (murder). This connotes that every time you see one of these it is part of a crime scene and instantly know something bad has happened. This prop represents something bad that has happened, however the people that used it are the police.

Newspapers

This prop is used for giving out information to the public about the news. It is going to be used as a piece of evidence with the evidence marker and the notice board as well. In thrillers you usually see people cutting certain titles and sections of the paper out, this could be something significant to the narrative. The headlines that are seen in the newspaper are usually showing bad things have happened to someone. The prop can be a way of showing where the setting is going to be for the thriller itself.

Photographs (Polaroid)

This prop is used to take photos of the crime scene, but also can set the scene and identity main characters. This prop is going to on the notice board and going to show evidence and the main characters of the thriller opening (the actors and crew). The prop is typically seen at crime scenes where they have taken photos of evidence. The connotations of this prop are that something bad has happened and the protagonist is working for the police solving a crime. This prop represents that someone has been killed, and the evidence team have taken photos of the crime scene. 

Rope

We will be using a rope as another piece of evidence that has been used as weapon of murder – to strangle the opponent. In a thriller genre we often associate and think of death, in relation to suicide. We can therefore use it to foreshadow bad occurrences; the audience should see the rope in the beginning in which could be hinted that it may be used later on in the opening. This prop connotes such feelings of being trapped and restricted, in which we could then use it to increase tension and it can be projected towards the audience. This prop will connote death.

Baton

A baton, typically used in police forces will be used as a weapon that the antagonist uses. This specific prop could hint and represent the background of the antagonist, relating the object with the individual to provide a job aspect, making the audience think on why this person owns this type of weaponry, could the antagonist be part of some type of Special Forces? This is the question we want the audience viewing to think about, leading to the oddity of the murder – giving the opening a sense of mystery which is typical of a thriller where it keeps the viewer thinking, overall making the film not as obvious. The colour of the baton being black could connote such things as hopelessness and death due to we associate the colour black with dark feelings, it relates to the antagonist and danger he could oppose with this weapon.