Idea Development

We had many ideas for a our thriller opening and we needed to refine them, and join our individual ideas together to come up with the best final outcome. Here are some of our initial ideas:

• Opens with a girl in a dream but we don't know it.
• Girl sees a box of photos on her bed and goes to put them away but then she sees the content of the photos inside.
• There is a close-up of her hand on the photos, they are of her as seen by a stalker.
• At this point her boyfriend comes in and she hides the photos from him.
• She runs out but he sees she's been looking through the photos and chases after her.
• She runs through the park into the woods. There is fast paced music.
• After being chased through the woods she comes into a clearing and there is a full circle shot of her. She has nowhere to hide.
• She suddenly wakes up with her boyfriend next to her asking her what's wrong. She sees the photos out of the corner of her eye.
• Dream in black and white and real-life in colour.

This was one of or first ideas. We liked it however we wanted to steer clear of the typical stalker and chase thrillers. Also the idea of having black an white for a dream and colour for real-life was slightly cliche. However the idea of using photos in a sinister way was good we incorporated that into our final idea.

Our idea then progressed:

• The thriller opening will feature a young girl who is home alone watching a video tape of when she was younger.
• Set at home at night to create suspense, only light is the blue light from the TV.
• After about 30 secs of the childhood video, it cuts to a murder scene, however it is not vivid and the camera angle is awkward and distorted although you can hear the screams from what is going on.
• The video suddenly ends and the girl searches for more clues.
• However as she is searching someone comes home and we hear them drive up to the house.
• The girl panics as she has to put everything back how it was before the person comes in and sees that she has watched the video tape.
• The person comes in and the girl acts oblivious although she is scared.

This was a good idea and we liked the idea of the girl searching for clues to solve something mysterious. However the idea of a videotape seems to similar to horror movie 'The Ring' therefore we are going to incorporate the photos from the previous idea instead.

Stay posted for our final thriller idea!

Brad