Initial Ideas

4th:

The full story line is about ex military former Estate Agent Marcus Harroway. He lives a pleasant life with his 3 children and wife until something happens that could change his life forever.

The opening scene:

Starts with Marcus Harroway driving in his car then suddenly stops noticing a man standing steady in the middle of the road. He panics and slams the brakes on, looks up almost immediately however the mysterious man had vanished. He gets out of his car and suddenly notices a trail of blood leading into the woods.

Initial Ideas

3rd:

The whole film is based on a young girl receiving a hidden note not meant for her, Catherine tries to investigate it, finding out all the details she can about the disappearance of Lily McPhee, and how and why she was murdered on Friday 13^th 2015. 

Opening scene:

Set in a library; Catharine a young naïve girl takes a book off the shelf and opens it only to find a note. The note says ‘get it done, her name is Lily McPhee, meet me at midnight don’t be late' signed Q Friday 13^th’. The note leaves her feeling curious and wondering what she should do.

Initial Ideas

 2nd:

The entire film is based on following round the life of a suicidal team. We learn their every move and learn their tricks and meet their enemies.

The opening scene:

Starts of revealing the setting which is a church, we immediately focus on one particular man straight away surrounded by other people. We notice a ticking bomb behind his back, when the timer reaches 10 seconds police and FBI’s crash into the church with guns and we focus back onto the bomb once it has reached 1 second and the scene suddenly ends showing the title of the film with a black out screen.  

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Feedback:

Starting with the positive comments. 

-Liked the idea of the ticking time bomb as it creates so much suspense. 

-Loved the location of beginning in the church as it is a holy place, so it contrasted well with the bomb. 

-Liked the idea that the audience don't know whether the bomb has been disabled in time or if the bomb has gone off. 

-Correct genre, you know immediately it is a thriller.    

-Perfect length to grip the audience. 

Improvements. 

-Did not understand why the man was in the church, as if he was part of a suicidal team they would have gone for a much more larger venue, so think about why the characters are there. 

-Terrorist does not work as they normally cause mass destruction. 

-Everything you film must lasts the amount of seconds that the timer is going down in. 

-I could a man tied to the bomb hidden underneath the Church trying to escape, then having the contrast of a choir singing above. 

Initial Ideas

1st:

The whole plot of the film is the mystery of the missing girl-A single father has recently been separated from his 14-year-old daughter; unknown men have taken her. We follow the dangers and risks the father goes through to get his daughter returned back to him.

Opening Scene:

The daughter is home alone, her music blasting out from her bedroom, however a man is downstairs and the music in faded and he suddenly starts walking up the stairs but trips/makes some sudden loud sound. The daughter hears this sound and immediately knows her father would not be back from work at this time of the day. She throws herself into the cupboard watching the man’s every move as he enters her bedroom looking through the gap in the cupboard and the scene ends when the man is walking towards the cupboard and gestures to open it.

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Feedback:

I was given feedback on this initial idea. I will start by talking about the positive comments.

-The idea that the young girl is smart and straight away realises there is something suspicious going on so she hides in the cupboard.

-The idea that nearly the whole opening scene is shot through the cupboard, as you can concentrate and rely on the sounds.

-It was a good length and gripped you from the beginning.

-You could immediately identify it was a thriller.

-Clear characters.

Things i could improve on:

-My idea was a lot like the movie 'Taken', it followed the same story line.

-This was to maybe get the young female character to notice a unfamiliar car outside the driveway and hide in the cupboard.

-Alternatively instead of having the venerable female character in the cupboard I could put the man in the cupboard, watching her every move.

-Then again you could have the female in the cupboard but as the man enters the room the girl would jump out and attack the man eventually manages to escape and the rest of the movie would be based on why they were targeting this particular young girl.

-The kidnapping happens to fast during the movie, it would have to come in later, so the beginning scene would be the father training or working.

-The females should always be the victims in situations like these, change the roles, the young girl fights back.

Genre, Subgenre and Hybrid genre

Genre:

A genre is a specific type of film examples of this is; thriller, comedy, horror and romance.

Sub-Genre;

A more specific generalization of similar types of films within a less specific genre, examples would be Psychological Horror.

Hybrid Genre;

This is the merging of 2 different genres for example;Rom-Com, Action Thriller.

Conventions of a thriller

What makes a good thriller, list everything that should be in a thriller