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Characters involved:
Anne-Marie Nicholson as the protagonist.
Barney Nash as the antagonist.
Outline of the thriller
The basic plot our our thriller is that the protagonist is driving home and comes across an oddly placed pram in the middle of the road, she inspects it but finds nothing except a doll. She pushes the pram to the side of the road and walks back to her car. As she reaches her car door she realizes it’s open, not the way she left it. She reluctantly drives on but within a few seconds the antagonist appears to be sitting in the back of her car. The thriller then blacks out leaving the audience on a cliff hangar.
How it meets thriller conventions
A crime at the core of the narrative is shown towards the end of the thriller as the antagonist has unauthorized entry into the protagonists vehicle. The audience also percepts that more crimes will come after the black out such as rape or murder.
Our thriller offers a subdued complex narrative structure, with false paths, clues and resolutions as before you even meet the antagonist there are clues placed in the narrative. The doll in the middle of the road heightens the tension as it’s an unusual item to find plus the stereotype of doll’s in thrillers will be in the back of the mind of the audience. It’s used as a false path as it is not directly linked towards the antagonist at first but towards the end a relationship is shown mainly through non-digetic sound.
The titles used in our thriller look as if they have been written in blood which reflect an aspect of the protagonists psychological state and give the audience an idea of what will happen. Although there is no blood in our thriller the ending leaves the audience of a cliffhangar and lets them make up their own decision of what will happen which the majority of will be centered around death. Therefore I feel that the titles were a good representation.
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