Our Red Herrings

In our thriller film, Detonation 180, we will be using red herrings as a device in our plot to create an enigma which is a vital part of a thriller. Our red herrings main aim will be to confuse the audience and mislead them into thinking they have discovered the plot of the film but they have in fact been mislead into believing it. We will be using using two red herrings that come in the form of a brief case and a false antagonist. Janna will be playing the role of the false antagonist which we included to confuse the audience. The character will be a false antagonist as the whole three minutes of the opening sequence will revolve around this character and will show his interaction with other characters which will be rather odd and will draw you to the conclusion that he is in fact the antagonist. This however is the red herring as this character is not actually the antagonist but you come to realise that he is an innocent victim. In films a common way of revealing that the antagonist is a false one is to 'dispose' of them. This is what we will be doing as the red herring comes to an end as the character will be killed in the ending of our thriller as he will board the train which will be blown up.
Our second red herring will be the brief case that Janna (the false antagonist) will be carrying around with her during the whole of he sequence. This is because the brief case is a good prop that goes with the outfit and personality of the character as the brief case conforms to the stereotypical business man outfit. Not only does the brief case serve as a prop but as a distraction as the way the false antagonist will be acting in the sequence will draw the audience to the conclusion that he is an antagonist, and because of this the brief case will then become suspicious as he will be carrying it the whole time. Also due to the fact that we are setting our film in Aylesford, also makes the brief case a successful red herring as Aylesford is quite a rural town, this then will plant questions in the viewers eyes as he will look out of place bringing in this setting looking like a smart business man. Also we will be building tension up as he enters the train station by increasing the intensity of the soundtrack, this will then lead to shot number 36 when the false antagonist is seated on the train with the brief case on his lap which he will slowly open, the following few shots will be of a black screen, train and a bomb ticking which will slowly zoom to the clock of the bomb the editing pace will be fast and will flick from one to the other very fast.  As the brief case is a red herring the audience will think that the brief case will have some significance due to the tension increase, however as the tension builds right up the red herring will be revealed as it flicks back to the false antagonist and he pulls a sandwich out of the case and nothing major happens. This will then cause mystery because as an audience you wonder  what the characters motive actually is and realise that they have fallen for the trick.