Props and costumes list

We carefully selected props and costumes that we think would be involved in a crime thriller film, and would emphasise those themes by using them. By looking at other crime thriller trailers, we have been able to use them to source what specific props we would need for typical crime thriller conventions, and what would be expected by our audience to have in our trailer.

White body sheets will be used for the crime scenes; we want to keep the gore down to a minimum for the trailer and save it for the actual film if we were to make it. By having the body sheets it makes filming easier since we wouldn't need to spend time on special effects make up, use lots of other actors and wait for their availability and using the body sheets draws the audience in by showing less, therefore engaging our audience rather than showing them the gory details and revealing too much.

Crime scene number cards are something that we have noticed appearing in crime thriller films and TV shows, and so we are using these to follow crime thriller paradigms so we can be as accurate to what would happen in a real life situation as possible.

 Another crime thriller convention is crime scene tape, this will capture the audiences attention as this will be the first clue to the first murder early on in the trailer.

 Fake blood will only be used when needed as we want to keep the blood and gore down to a minimum; the gory action would normally be left until the actual film is released depending on the certificate rating. By having less violence, gore and blood we can have a lower certificate rating resulting in having a larger audience.

We wanted to have a forensic suit to have a more professional look to our trailer and to highlight the crime element of our A2 film. We feel that this costume won't be used by many A level media students, and so this could make our trailer stand out from others, whilst simultaneously looking accurate and professional and possibly achieving the typical look of a real crime thriller trailer.

We decided to use this as one of the serial killers weapons because most people would be using something predictable like a big knife. We felt that by using a blunt object would be even more menacing and brutal and the deaths of the next victims would be much more violent and gory, all of this is suggested by just featuring the mallet in the killers hand.

 We need reporter microphones to feature early on in the trailer because as expected there would be a crowd of press and reporters lingering around a crime scene, when they are all questioning and harassing Detective Jones and the survivor Kayleigh.

 One of the shots that we want to show in the trailer is a close up of a newspaper article about the recent family murder, this is to constantly remind the audience of what's happened and emphasise that its essential to the plot. Using a newspaper also makes the trailer realistically accurate to what actually happens in the media when a crime has been committed.





After watching trailers such as Se7en and Zodiac, we noticed that usually the detectives will use torches in dark and dimly lit scenes so maybe at some point in our trailer we will feature a scene like that with either Detective Jones or the journalist.

One of our characters is a young policewoman called Jessica Woods, the costume that is need for this character is very basic with the shirt, stab vest, hat, tie and a radio. Involving a character with a costume like this will also highlight our effort into trying to be accurate to a crime thriller and will show that we are making an effort to have a professional look of a real film trailer. This costume is to allow the strong presence of law enforcement come through into our trailer.













The press and reporters will need cameras as well as microphones, this will help to get the flash effect when we film those scenes and create a claustrophobic and busy atmosphere.








A crime board will feature in a crime thriller film/ show almost all the time; most of the case solving will be based around the crime board. Our crime board will feature pictures of past murders of all the family victims, suspects and a map of Cambridgeshire.