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Our chosen genre for our film is thriller; we decided to base it on the film 28 days later. We tried to imitate the sense of seclusion by filming the main character is a deserted park with no one around him. The mise-en-scene for our film is similar to that of 28 days later; the costumes are something an average person would wear, the sets we used are natural sets they are not made sets like in 28 days later, they used real London streets. The mise en scene we wanted an isolated looking area with many trees. This would make the scene look more realistic.

Like all thriller genres the opening scene has disturbing music that builds tension and suspense within the audience.
Through sound we kept it quite natural using ambient sound, the water from the stream, the wind. Again back to 28 days later when the man is deserted in London the sound is not much sound, it quite and creates tension, and that is how we wanted ours to be.
We used a voice over in the opening scene, something thriller films don’t usually have but we wanted to make it original. We used the poem ‘Education for Leisure’ by Carol Ann Duffy. We used some of the lines in her poem we felt were relevant to the genre of film we chose. This gave the film a sense of menace as with the editing of the film it went together really well. We also used the title of the poem as inspiration for the title of the film changing the word ‘Education’ for ‘Killing’ making the title of our film ‘Killing for Leisure.’
With the camera work, it relates to other thrillers as they use a juxtaposition of shots. So we used many different kinds of shots, we did some extreme close up to start with and we did some long shots which shows some of the setting. In 28 days later many long shots were used. Other shots were; Panning shots which were widely used in 'The Usual Suspect' beginning.
In editing we cross cut from 2 very different scenes like in 28 days later. And when adding non-diegetic sound, we wanted something that wouldn’t over power the scene so we used a simple orchestral piano. This helps create a mystery and this is very popular in thriller films.
The main inspiration to our film was 28 days later as we like their use of camera work and the plot so we developed something similar.