Alfred Hitchcock

No list of suspense or thriller films can be complete without mention of English film-maker/director Alfred Hitchcock.
He helped to shape the modern-day thriller genre, beginning with his early silent film The Lodger (1926), a suspenseful Jack-the-Ripper story, followed by his next thriller Blackmail (1929), his first sound film (but also released in a silent version). Hitchcock would make a signature cameo appearance in his feature films, beginning with his third film The Lodger (1926), although his record was spotty at first. After 1940, he appeared in every one, except for The Wrong Man (1956). Although nominated five times as Best Director (from 1940-1960), Hitchcock never won an Academy Award.

Alfred Hitchcock is considered the acknowledged master of the thriller or suspense genre, manipulating his audience's fears and desires, and taking viewers into a state of association with the representation of reality facing the character. He would often interweave a taboo or sexually-related theme into his films, such as the repressed memories of Marnie (Tippi Hedren) in Marnie (1964), the latent homosexuality in Strangers on a Train (1951), voyeurism in Rear Window (1954), obsession in Vertigo (1958), or the twisted Oedipus complex in Psycho (1960).

Thrillers

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre. However, this genre often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre in addition to the typical traits of the thriller genre. Also, occasionally this genre will border into the also wide-ranging Horror genre.
Generally, thrillers focus on plot over character, and thus emphasize intense, physical action over the character's psyche. Psychological thrillers tend to reverse this formula to a certain degree, emphasizing the characters just as much, if not more so, than the plot.
The suspense created by psychological thrillers often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.
Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds. Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or physical torsions of the characters at play.

Animatic

This is our animatic. We took stills from our storyboard which we created in Storyboard Quick 5 and placed them in final cut to create this animatic. This is the sequence that our film will be when we have finally created it.

Shooting Schedule

Here is shooting schedule, this shows everybody where to be and when. This document was produced on Microsoft word. By having a shooting schedule your group and actors can be more prepared and get the shooting done on time.

Similar research - Dead Ringer

Dead ringer is another thriller that uses the theme of twins and revenge. The difference is that it is two brothers instead of two sisters. Dead ringers introduces a psychotic theme that isn't as strong in our film, our film is more about sibling rivalry.
We did not copy this films titles but they are the same as ours on our film also suggesting the similarity between our two films.
Our settings are very different to Dead ringers (1988) as their film is set mainly in a hospital whereas our film has a more homely feel as we are mainly set in a house.

Related Films

This film has a similar treatment to our film concerning twins and underlining hate and revenge.

Similar research

There aren't many films which have the same concept as ours. We found a really good example of a similar  film, its called single white female.

  Basically the girl 'Hedy' used to have a twin sister but she died at a young age. 'Hedy' then blames herself for her sisters death and proceeds to find herself another 'twin'. 'Hedy' answers an advert from annie who is looking for a roommate, and slowly becomes annie by copying her hairstyle, clothes and lifestyle. Annie finds out that 'Hedy' is really called Ellen and has killed previous girls who she wanted to be 'twins' with. Annie must escape from 'Hedy'/Ellen before she too is in danger.

   This is similar to our film in the fact that its about twins and jealousy and almost revenge. 
Another film that we have found is called Dead Ringers, this is about twin brothers who ultimately suffer from psychotic tendencies. It is again similar to ours as in the film the two brothers compete against each other and rival each other. This is a good film to compare to ours as the themes in this film are very similar to the themes in our film.