The type of thriller sub genre which inspires me at the moment are Supernatural and Action Thriller. Within Action Thriller films/movies there tends to be alot of harsh noises and violence and with the special effects which are created/shown makes it even more exciting for the audience to watch. It also helps me to engage to the film and query whether it is going to be a good or bad ending and what else might happen. I generally like Supernatural Thrillers as the unexpected scenes create alot on anxiety, tension as well as suspense.
this is one picture of a shot we took whilst filming. in this picture i walk into the garage and act paranoid, this is one of the main bit of suspense during the film.
THIS IS OUR TITLE SEQUENCE WHICH WE DID AS WT2 PRODUCTIONS. WE DID DULL COLOURS TO CREATE SUSPENSE, AS IT SEEMS DARK.
THIS IS OUR SOUNDTRACK WHICH WE WORKED ON. WE MADE THE SOUNDTRACK CALM WHICH THEN GOES INTO LOUD, TO TENSE THE AUDIENCE AND TO MAKE THEM THINK AND ASK QUESTIONS TO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.
 Police said the boys had been out drinking on Monday |
The legality of the drug mephedrone will be examined "very speedily, very carefully" following the deaths of two teenagers, Lord Mandelson has said.
The business secretary said the government would take "any action" needed to deal with the drug.
Louis Wainwright, 18, and Nicholas Smith, 19, died in Scunthorpe on Monday after taking the drug.
The Home Office said it would receive advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) on 29 March.
The ACMD said its chairman, Professor Les Iverson, has discussed mephedrone with Home Secretary Alan Johnson, "who has expressed his grave concern about the drug".
It said: "The council has been looking at the dangers of mephedrone, and the related cathinone compounds, as a priority.
 | MEPHEDRONE FACTS Recreational drug with effects similar to amphetamines and ecstasy Sold as a white powder, also found in capsules and pills or can be dissolved in a liquid Often sold online as plant food marked "not for human consumption" Completely different drug to methadone, which is a pharmaceutical drug typically used as a very strong painkiller or to treat heroin addicts Reported side-effects include headaches, palpitations, nausea, cold or blue fingers Long-term effect of taking drug unknown Currently legal to buy and be in possession of the powder, but against the law to sell, supply or advertise the powder for human consumption under the Medicines Act Already illegal in Israel, Denmark, Norway and Sweden  |
"The ACMD held an evidence-gathering meeting on 22 February and continues to carefully work on its considerations with a view to providing advice to ministers on 29 March."
According to BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw, a member of the ACMD, speaking anonymously, said he would be "very surprised" if the council did not make its decision at its next meeting in March.
The council will then write a full report, containing its recommendations, and present it to the home secretary.
The ACMD member said there was also "some understanding" of the science behind mephedrone, though it was "far from perfect".
Lord Mandelson said: "We will take any action that is needed, any action that is justified, to deal with this and to avert such tragic consequences occurring in the future."
He also admitted that he had never previously heard of the drug.
Mephedrone is known by various names, including "M-Cat", "MC", "mieow", "meow", "4MMC" or simply plant fertiliser.
It is usually a white or yellowish powder, which is snorted, but can also be obtained in pills and capsules. It is marketed as plant food.
Police made three arrests following the death of the two teenagers.
The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) says a ban on the substance should be considered.
| FROM BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
NAHT general secretary Mick Brookes told the BBC the use of the drug had become more widespread.
He said: "This drug clearly has the same inherent dangers as any Class A drug and I think serious consideration should be given to banning it.
"The problem with that is that you then criminalise the people who take it, so we need to think very carefully about what we do, but act with some speed."
Some heads say the drug should be made illegal immediately - even if it risks some children getting a criminal record.
Schools have become increasingly worried that because the drug is legal, children as young as 12 are trying it.
Legal high report; first broadcast December 2009
An ACMD sub-committee had been looking into legal highs, but its work stopped following the dismissal of Professor David Nutt as the chief drugs adviser last October.
Prof Nutt was sacked after publicly disagreeing with the government's decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B drug and not to downgrade ecstasy.
Club scene
Five ACMD members then resigned in the row that followed Prof Nutt's departure.
Websites selling the drug have told their customers it is a case of "when" not "if" mephedrone will be banned.
Head teacher Mike Stewart: 'We need help'
The two teenagers who died were found collapsed at their homes after a night out in Scunthorpe.
Humberside Police said the drug appeared to have contributed to their deaths. They had been out drinking in the hours before they died.
Two men, aged 26 and 20, and a 17-year-old boy have been arrested in connection with the incident.
Post-mortem examinations are being carried out.
Mephedrone has become popular on the UK club scene in recent months.
Its side effects are said to include psychosis, palpitations, burning throat, nosebleeds and insomnia.
10:17am UK, Wednesday March 03, 2010
Chile and the Andes mountains, as seen from Space Shuttle Columbia in 1994
Richard Gross, a research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, calculated how much the axis may have changed in position following the the disaster.
More than 700 people died and two million are estimated to have been affected by the 8.8-magnitude tremor and subsequent tsunamis.
The quake, the most powerful to hit the nation in 50 years, sent shockwaves out from the epicentre 70 miles from Chile's second city, Concepcion.
Buildings and roads collapsed and 500,000 homes have been left severely damaged.
Six aid workers died when a plane carrying them to Concepcion crashed.
The team was on its way to help organise accommodation for those left homeless by the disaster.
Soldiers were sent to patrol Concepcion's streets after mobs set fire to shops and started looting them, hindering attempts to rescue survivors.
Devastation after the Chile quake
If the planet's axis did shift by 8cm during the quake, days would have shortened by 1.26 microseconds, Mr Gross calculated.
A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
Earth days are 24 hours long because that is the amount of time it takes the planet to make one full rotation on its axis, so shifting the axis would affect rotation.
The quake shifted the Earth's axis by even more than the 9.1-magnitude tremor off Indonesia that started the deadly tsunami in Asia in 2004, according to Mr Gross.
This was partly because the fault line responsible for the quake in Chile "dips into Earth at a slightly steeper angle than does the fault responsible for the 2004 Sumatran earthquake", he said.
The different angle made Saturday's tremor more effective at moving Earth's mass vertically and shifting the planet's axis, Mr Gross continued.
The 2004 quake in Asia, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, caused the Earth to move by around 7cm.
It chopped an estimated 6.8 microseconds off the length of a day, Nasa said.
James Bulger's mother says killer 'where he belongs' | |||||
The mother of murdered toddler James Bulger has said killer Jon Venables is "where he belongs, behind bars". In her first reaction to his return to custody, Denise Fergus also said on Twitter, "is this my [son's justice?]". Venables, 27, was recalled to prison last week after breaching the terms of his release. He and Robert Thompson killed James on Merseyside in 1993. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he could not give details of why Venables was back in custody. Venables' solicitor at the time of the trial told the BBC he would be surprised if he had contacted Thomson or returned to Merseyside. Two-year-old James was abducted by Venables and Thompson while at the Strand shopping centre in Bootle. Home Secretary Alan Johnson could not give details of why Venables was back in custody His battered body was found by children playing on a freight railway line more than two miles from the shopping centre, and 200 yards from Walton Lane police station in Liverpool. The killers were given life sentences, but released in 2001 with new identities and under certain licence conditions. Family members said Mrs Fergus remained unaware of the nature of Venables' breach. The precise details were not released by the Ministry of Justice. Both Thompson and Venables were given new identities when they were released. An order prohibiting the publication of details which could reveal their whereabouts has since remained in place.
Speaking on the BBC News channel on Wednesday morning, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he could not reveal the reasons behind Venables' recall to custody. Later Justice Secretary Jack Straw said it was in the public interest that it be kept secret. "But the public also need to be reassured that action was taken properly and promptly to recall him to prison and there will now be proceedings before the Parole Board to determine whether he should remain in custody," Mr Straw said. He confirmed the Bulger family has not been told the reasons for the recall. "For very good reason we have had to keep restricted details as to why Mr Venables has been recalled. "I was however very anxious that the victim's family should know that he was being recalled before they found it out from the newspapers." Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of Napo, the probation union, said Venables could have been recalled to custody under two procedures. It could be an emergency procedure in which he would have to be charged with a serious offence, or a standard incident, perhaps involving a technicality such as a failure to keep appointments with a probation officer, Mr Fletcher said. In an interview on BBC Radio Merseyside, Venables' solicitor at the trial, Laurence Lee, said it was a "bit early to condemn him completely until we know what he has done".
He added: "If he went to Merseyside when he shouldn't have done or if he contacted Thomson, goodness knows why he should, going by the hatred that developed on the part of Venables towards him, I'd be surprised. "But if it's a breach of a condition not to go somewhere or not to speak to somebody or not to carry out certain meetings, that kind of thing, then it should be a minor breach and presumably he wouldn't be in custody for long." Venables will appear before a hearing of the Parole Board to consider the reason for recall. The outcome of such hearings is not usually made public, but a spokesman for the Parole Board said it was likely the result would be released because of the high profile nature of the case. | | ||||
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