Idea Presentation

To start of my ideas, I watched many different thriller films and thought of the ones I already knew of. The main thriller films that inspire me are, shutter island, seven, taken and fight club, these films are ones that I enjoy and ones that I personally think are good overall as a general thriller.

Sub Genre

As I had no idea were to start I decided to start with the basics and begin to look at the different sub genres that I could go for out of conspiracy, crimes, disaster, mystery, political, psychological, religious and super natural I decided to go for crime and psychological I did this so that my thriller would be more interesting. I love crime thrillers as I loved to feel like I am apart of the movie, like I am solving the crime. I also like crime movies as they are closely linked to mystery thrillers and the more mystery the better. I picked psychological thrillers as well as I love the idea of flash backs and a non-linear film. I think that having two different types of thriller genres in one film make the audience more involved and there will be much more mystery flying around.

I chose these sub genres due to the films shutter island and fight club, I personally believe that the way the characters are made out is really interesting. The idea that the audience don’t really know what is going on with the person is what I would like to do. The audience are not told that the main character is mental or ill in any way but by the events in the film this is what crosses our minds until the end when all is revealed.

Characters:

As soon as I knew what genre to look into ideas flew into my head, physiological thriller means my main character will be mentally unstable without being to obvious or revealing, I would also like the main character to be a narrator over the film like in fight club as I feel like this is an interesting way to present the film. As I am creating a thriller, my character will be an adult as thrillers are set around the ‘adult world’.

Plot:

As I chose to do a crime thriller my plot will be based around a crime that needs solving. I chose to do a murder as I also picked physiological, meaning that the murderer isn’t all there or may be ill in some way. I also decided that it would be a good idea to have the victim related to the murderer therefore I chose for the murderer to kill their mum, this way it would be more of a mystery and the audience would be kept guessing.

Setting/Location:Many of the scenes would take place at a police station and a interview room. The main location would be a big city, I chose London as it is the most convenient for me.

Opening scene:After looking at all of the above I decided that my opening scene would look best if it was a very edited, variety of clips. Starting with the man and the murderer (not seeing his face), images of the dead women, there will be confusion and jumping effects this will allow the viewers the see that it is a thriller film. I got my inspiration from the seven opening credits, however I think I would like mine a bit more jumpy. 

The themes used in my film are: family, love, death, murder, crime.

This brainstorm is a summery of all of my ideas:

This is a collage of all of my ideas and how i got them, things that influenced me and the different things my thriller opening scene may include:

To present all of my ideas in a more interesting way i created this video, it includes all of the information that i used in order to come up with my final idea.

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