Working Title

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, England. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1984. It produces feature films and some television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are the co-owners of the company now.

The company gained mainstream traction after the unexpected global box-office success of Hugh Grant-starrer, Four Weddings and a Funeral. Among the company's films are Richard Curtis-scripted romantic comedies, which usually star Grant, and Coen Brothers' films, but has in recent times moved into many other types of film, such as United 93.

In 2004 it made a profit of £17.8 million pounds sterling.^{[citation needed]} As of 2007, all its films are distributed by Universal Studios, which owns a 67% stake in the company, and many of its recent films are co-productions with StudioCanal. The remaining shares are owned by the company's founders, BBC Films, and private investors.^{[citation needed]}

The film company also has a smaller low-budget film brand, WT2 (Working Title 2) which has produced films such as Billy Elliot (2000) and Shaun of the Dead (2004).

Recently the company produced Burn After Reading, a comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

This is a picture of myself in costume as the femme fatale Adalia. We used all the ideas for the costume that we orginally decided and the outcome proved successful.

Narrative Sequence

1: Pan of Adalia sitting on bed in front of mirror. Cut to
2: Extreme close up, stationary, Adalia applying lipstick
3: Fade to black and white flashback (medium shot & pan of Rob & Faye)
4: High angle shot, Adalia walking up stairs
5: Long shot, Adalia sees Rob & Faye through door. Cut to
6: Extreme close up, stationary, Adalia applying mascara
7: Fade to flasback, medium shot and pan of Rob & Faye, focus on blood
8: Cut to high angle shot, Adalia walking down stairs
9: Medium close up, Adalia walks through door and past camera
10: Cut to close up of wine glass as Adalia picks up
11: Close up of sink as wine spilt down drain whilst taps running
12: Fade to black and white flashback, close up of knife as blood is washed off it.
13: Cut to close up of wad of money
14: Camera pans as money is rolled up in newspaper & placed inside handbag.
15: Close up of handbag
16: High angle shot Adalia walking downstairs
17: Medium close -up Adalia walking down last few stairs
18: Cut to extreme close-up, Adalia opening front door handle
19: Cut to outside, Adalia opens and slams front door
20: Camera follows Adalia down front path
21: Tilt shot Adalia walking down street
22: Cut to high angle shot, Adalia walking down ouside stairs
23: Cut to close up, Adalia's anxious face as she walks past camera
24: Low angle shot, focus on high-heeled shoes as Adalia walks past
25: Point of view shot, Adalia walks to car
26: Pan of car as Adalia steps in and slams door
27: Camera inside car, pan from Adalia's head to her opening mirror
28: Focus and zoom into mirror as Rob seen in background.

Camera Angles

Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures is a haunting thriller infused with teenage obsession directed by Peter Jackson. Starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey.




"The true story of a crime that shocked a nation. Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge." (plot outline from IMDB.com)

"Heavenly Creatures may be the best film I've seen so far from Peter Jackson, even after having gone through the Lord of the Rings, King Kong, even Dead-Alive. His film is loaded with so much that it's hard to classify it as one specific thing, and its psychological complexities make it something special. One way to describe the picture is that it's about the stirring friendship-cum-relationship of Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet (Kate Winslet) in 1950s New Zealand. Another way to describe it is showing the other side, the much darker side, of a coming of age story, where youth have to come to terms with realities, with horrific results. And even another way is that it's another in a big line of independent films that work on the relationship between fantasy and reality, or rather the practical need for abstractions to try and not get too close to the mundane, and then the all too hard to accept realities around the characters." (part of a review from imdb.com)

Kill Bill

Kill Bill is an action thriller written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.



Plot: "The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of." (imdb.com)

"The movie is obviously a case of style over substance. In essence the movie is just a basic revenge flick without too much depth or meaning. This however is exactly like how Tarantino intended it to be. "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" is simple, straightforward, completely over-the-top but above all beautifully shot and superbly directed. The movie its story comes totally secondary, as Tarantino used this movie as an experimental tool to mix several, mostly Asian cinema, styles together and blend it into one big visual experience of violence and unusual over-the-top looking sequences. His aim was style and with that this movie most certainly does not disappoint." (part of a review from imdb.com)

The Shining

The Shining written by Stephen King and directed by Stanley Kubrick is a horror thriller.






"A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future." (IMDB.com)

"Right from the beginning, as we contemplate the car going to the hotel from those stunning aerial shots, deeply inside us we know that something in the film, somehow, sometime is going to go wrong. As we obtain that severe warning, an almost inaudible voice gently whispers to us 'sit tight', a sense of unexpectedness invades us all, and it is that very same feeling that makes our hair stand on end throughout out the entire movie." (A review from the IMDB)


This film contains many of the generic thriller signifiers.
One of these is when the blood come flowing from behind the doors, blood is a thriller signifier.

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Another is when the plot comes to a climax and Jack Torrence is chasing his wife Wendy Torrence with an axe and she locks herself into a small bathroom to escape, however, Jack is cutting down the door with the axe whilst Wendy is desperatly trying to get out of the window and cant. The whole idea of being trapped in a calostraphobic space with no escape is a generic thriller signifier.

My Perfume Advert

This is my perfume advert. I used Alexa Chung as the model for my advert as it is my opinion that she is one of the most beautiful english females, which is fitting for the name of the perfume (English Rose) I also thought that as i was aiming the product at young females, they would be far more likely to relate to Alexa Chung as a role model as she is chic, stylish and cool and therefore would be far more likely to purchase the perfume.

I decided against using a preset font from the computer and instead printed out the image
and used a griffiti/ scribble font in biro with an un-neat style to suggest attitude, this would be another thing that would make the perfume more appealing to the younger generation. I was aiming to create attitude within the advert as this relates directly to the tagline "the floral with attitude."

I desaturated the image as i thought this would give the advert the more rock n roll feel, my inspiration for this was music videos by rock bands such as oasis as their video cigarettes and alcohol protrays the rock and roll lifestyle and is filmed in black and white. This would relate to an audience of the younger generation, as older teens and young people today are very much part of the "partying" and "rocknroll" scene. Which also suggests that i am also aiming this add at a particular group of young people, those being the young bohemian/ indie/ rockers of todays generation.

I chose not to include the perfume bottle within the advert as i didnt want the advert to appear cluttered. Also i felt there would be less need as when marketing the product i would have used the same font on the bottle of the perfume and in shops there would be advertisements such as this one next to the product itself to point people seeking the perfume in the right direction and with television ads i wouldvi included the bottle.

Overall for what i was trying to achieve i think that my advert is rather effective.






This is the original picture i used.

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Props For Our Thriller

Red Lipstick
This is a classic femme fatale signifier, it also gives a strong reference to a dominant, confident woman and also blood.
This prop will be used when we see Adalia applying her make up in the dressing table mirror, before her first flashback.

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Blackest Black Mascara
This prop will be used before Adalias second flashback and if a bullet shaped mascara were to be used this would be a good reference.
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Kitchen Knife
This prop is the suggested weapon of Ron and Fayes murder, a knife is also a generic thriller signifier which is why we decided to use it.
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Wad of money wrapped in a newspaper
This is a strong reference to the noir thriller "Psycho" where Marion Crain steals the money from her boss's client and wraps it in a newspaper before running away. This prop will be used when Adalia has finished applying her make up and and previous to her running away.

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Costumes For Our Thriller

Pencil Skirt
We decided that a black pencil skirt would give a classic feel to the femme fatale image we were trying to create for the character Adalia. And being high waisted would recreate the image of the femme fatale you would originally associate with the 50's and 60's film noir thrillers.








White Shirt
We though that by teaming the black pencil skirt with a white shirt this would add to the classic femme fatale image we were trying to achieve, the white gives the illusion of innocence but with the black suggests hidden depths and a possible devious side. >>>

High Heeled Shoes
High heeled shoes represent a confident woman and this was an image we were trying to create for Adalia.
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Red Beret

The splash of red (the beret) is a reference to blood, which is why we decided to include it in the costume for our femme fatale. >>>

My Questionnaire Results

The results for my questionnaire showed that collectively most people preferred a male lead role and mist preferred an action thriller.

Outline Of Events For Our Thriller

The main character of our thriller is Adalia Justice, she is the typical "femme fatale" The opening will begin with an extreme close up shot of Adalia's lips, we will also see her applying red lipstick, we believe this would be a good reference made to blood. The sound in this sequence will be only non-diagetic, the backing track has not yet been decided. The shot then fades into a black and white establishing shot of a bedroom, where we will see Adalias boyfriend, Rob, in bed with another woman named Faye. This scene is a flashback from Adalias memory in which she is seen watching the implied sexual encounter through a slightly open door, this, however, goes unnoticed by the cheating couple. The camera then zooms in and focuses on the couple who are ,at this point, kissing intimately. Following this the camera cuts to another xtreme close-up of Adalia applying jet black mascara thickly to her eyelashes which then fades into another flashback, again in black and white of the bedroom again, the door this time shut and Rob and Faye still in the bed, however this time they are covered in blood and appear dead. The camera then cuts to another extreme close-up of Adalia applyin red nail varnish. Following this Adalia accidentally spills the nail varnish, the camera zooms into the spilled pool of nail varnish on the desk then zooms out to a close-up of a sink. This scene then changes to another flashback of Adalia washing blood off a knife in the same sink. This creates the assumption that Adalia commited the murder of her cheating boyfriend and his other woman.
The camera then cuts to an over the shoulder shot of Adalis wrapping a wad of notes, stolen from dead Rob's wallet, into a newspaper, this is a reference made to the thriller "Psycho" where Marion Crane does the same with money she has stolen from a client in her workplace. The focus is then on Adalias handbag into which she puts the folded newspaper. This is an implication that Adalia is on the run, another reference made to "Psycho"s Marion Crane. This then cuts to an extreme close-up following Adalias hand as she zips up a high heeled boot and then as she begins to walk. The screen the fades to black as the non-diagetic sound stops and a door is heard slamming. The camera then focuses on the shut dorr and the sound of heels is heard becoming further and further away from the camera. The camera cuts then to a scene of Adalia pacing through a dingy, deserted alleyway. The camera changes to a long shot and "follows" Adalia through the alleyway. Then the non-diagetic sound re-enters as the diagetic sound fades out and is no longer heard. Adalia is then seen walking towards a car in the distance. The camera follows Adalia to the car and watches as she slams the drivers car door shut behind her after getting in as this occurs non-diagetic stops again. The camera then cuts to another over the shoulder shot of Adalia now moving towards the middle of the car to look into the rear view mirror in which the camera shows the face of the "dead" boyfriend Rob reflected from the backseat of the car. The camera then cuts to a black screen and the sound of Adalias scream.