Research: Three Key Ideas

Top 3 Ideas for our Thriller film.

 

Emily Strickland:

This activity was very useful as it enabled us to bring all our ideas together and see which are realistically plausible, for example the second idea is set in Antarctica and involves a polar bear, unfortunately no matter how amazing we make this we can't go ahead with it because we can't realistically go to Antarctica and film a polar bear. I like idea three and it's conceivable considering our budget (being nothing!) and local areas, however the narrative event seems a bit common as many thrillers include someone/thing being buried by an old man, we could use the location and adapt the narrative event to make the opening a little more interesting and individual. I really like idea one but filming in prison is going to be near to impossible, despite this it may be possible to use an outbuilding that looks like a cell and edit in the outside of a prison into the opening. The diary seem like an interesting prop that could be a creative way to reveal information about the narrative to the audience, but also allows us to conceal information leaving the audience in the dark about what is being written. Using flashbacks is a good narrative event as it's a common thriller convention.

Molly Baker: 

I found this activity useful as we could finally bring all our ideas together and create one final idea. Also we could see how unrealistic some of our ideas were. An example is the second idea which includes a polar bear and traveling to Antarctica. We decided this maybe wasn't the best idea as even if we could get to Antarctica I have a funny feeling that we wouldn't be able to get a polar bear to act for us. I feel the final idea is the most plausible as the locations are accessible as well as the actors. However my favourite idea is definitely the first one, as it is the most enigmatic yet again getting into a prison and being able to film is going to be impossible. I feel that if we could incorporate the idea one with idea 3 we could have an interesting plot which can become film able.