Tension within a thriller

This thriller is all about men in a van wearing masks, they have guns and look like they are going to attack someone but don’t want to be recognised hence the masks. The men look like professionals as they are wearing suits and masks, which suggest that they have done this before and know what to expect and how the situation should be handled. They end up saving the young boy in the back of the car from the driver, which they held guns at but intentionally did not shoot. 

The opening sequence to this thriller has a lot of tension, there is no music involved so there is just the sound of silence, and only the background noise’s for example the sound of the engine and the honk of the horn at the end of the beginning section. The camera also focuses on the faces of the men close up and also on the gun they are holding and setting up. 

In this thriller there are 3 characters; the men in the masks, the driver and the young boy in the back on the car. We start out thinking that the men in the masks are the villains as they are hiding their identity under their masks. This is misleading though because we finally find out that they are saving the young boy, although they are also carrying guns which are illegal. Before we see the young boy we have an idea that the man in the car is an innocent but as soon as we realise there is a young boy in the back tied up we immediately turn on the driver as, as an audience we normally feel sorry for the younger generation in films because they are known as the innocents. 

I think the rest of the film will go onto the follow the story of the men in the masks especially the one we see at the beginning without his mask on, as he was the only one giving his identity away to the audience. I don’t think this film will have a ‘hero’ or ‘good people’ in it as the men in the masks give the impression that they are not ‘good people’. I think throughout the film we would meet more people trying to get the men in the masks back from their goal to rob a bank. The young boy is needed by the men because he can unlock any codes, which would help while trying to rob a bank. Each of the men in the group has different skills and is used for different parts of the robbery. I visualise main man we see at the beginning of the thriller being the father of the young boy which suggests why the men in the masks try to help the young boy escape the driver and this also links with why the young boy runs into the van once he has been saved by the men.