Planning Thriller Opening scene Initial Ideas

  Initial Ideas

Possible names/titles

• Wrong Turn
• Red Hill
• Dark Hill
• The Uninvited
• Silent Hill
• Come Play With Me
• Restless

Settings

• Train Stations (Crews Hill Station)
• Ghost Train
• Haunted Stations
• Dark Hills
• Haunted Town
• Graveyard
• A10 underpass (Subway)

Themes:

• Obsession
• dolls and teddy bears
• Children
• Rape

Possible Narrative 

• Teenagers go camping (Haunted place) the group get killed one by one and each station can be shown along the teenagers trip to the camp site.

Planning Initial Ideas(Ken)
Narrative: A young women moves to her new home to live on her own, one night she heard her doorbell rings, she went to open the door and see a little girl crying outside her door. She then feels sympathy and adopts the girl and she claimed that her mother was trying to kill her and doesn’t have any related family members. The little girl appears to have a tormented mind-set, she claimed to have an invisible friend and draws a lot of disturbing pictures about horrific killing and extreme violent pictures. One night, the women had a dream that flash back her memories when she was young teenager and was pregnant, she was too scared to do abortion so she gave birth to the child, chocked the child to death and left the child in the public toilet. And now her nightmares are becoming more concern as everything the child said about what her mother did to her was exactly the same thing as what she did. The child appears to be a spirit of the women’s child and came back to torture her for her horrific actions she did in her past.
Title: ‘’The Unborn’’
Sub-genre: Psychological Thriller
Characters: Evil child, female victim
Narrative structure: Aristotle & Barthes
MES:
Location: House, park, public toilet.
Iconography: Blood, Knife, Colour pencils, Papers…
Costume of characters:
Evil Child: White costume with black eyes make-up.
Female Victim: Bright colours clothing.
Lighting: Low-key lighting, background lighting, top and under lighting.
Body language of key characters:
Evil Child: small, physically weak, mysterious, and confident.
Female Victim: quite small and short, clueless, innocent, physically wear and vulnerable.
Advantages of this idea: Conventional to psychological thriller, the idea of the evil can help to manipulate the audience and create fear and also have clear narrative structure for the viewers to be understood.
Disadvantages of this idea: May not have the permissions to for the child to act as the devil character and the child might not know how to act. Might be time consuming because the child might be messing around and not taking filming seriously.

Abdullah

Plan idea number 2:

Narrative:
The narrative is of a couple that cannot conceive a child and they both look to adopt a child. The couple with their bad fortune visit a fortune teller to read their destiny and to see if they can have a child of their own on day or will they have to go ahead with their plan to adopt. The fortune teller is petrified and taken aback by the couples impending destiny. The fortune teller warns the couple that there is a black spot coming into their lives.  The couple leave unmoved by the fortune tellers advice. The couple now are more determined to adopt and they visit a children’s home and the wife sees a small child sitting in the corner all alone and they instantly feel a connection and the wife thinks this is the child they will adopt and she firmly believes show has a motherly connection with the child the husband is not so sure. The wife persists and she adopts the child with her husband very suspicious. When the child arrives in the couple’s house the dog runs away and never returns also the couple have increasing strain on the marriage after they have adopted the child. The father has an unexpected and untimely death and then the child tortures and kills the mother and the child may have done the same with the father.
Title: Restless
Sub-genre: Physiological thriller
Characters: Child (demented, demon), Female victim, Father/Husband
Narrative structure: Propp or Todarov
MES:
Location (Family House)
Iconography blood knife which is used to kill
Costume the child is made to look demented and the mother costume of a typical victim (simple clothing light colour clothing’s)
Dark lighting (Setting)
Advantages:
Very simple and easy characters to use child female victim

Disadvantage:
Filming or find a children’s home it can be difficvult to film in that chosen location as there will be many issues filming in a childrens home
Getting a child to play that role of a demeted and murderous child will be very hard toi ensure that the child is not affected by the role they will play later on in their lives.
Finding a fortune teller or someone that can play it well can be a possible problem as it needs to be realist and there is a time scale to find a fortune teller.


Jevel

Plan ides Number 3;

Narrative: A man comes across a theatre and watches a group of ballerinas rehearsing, he then sees one particular girl who he seems to take a fascination to… he then becomes really obsessed with this ballerina. After a while of wanting her he then decides to kidnap her and keep her prisoner.

Title: Silent Audience

Sub-Genre: Psychological Thriller

Characters: Antagonist, Victim and extras

Narrative Structure: Aristotle & Barthes

Mes:

Location: Millfield Theatre
Costume:
Antagonist- Long Black coat
Victim- Ballet outfit
Extras- ballet or dance outfits
Lighting: Natural lighting
Advantages: this is quite conventional as it includes themes such as Love/ Obsession, Kidnapping and has a clear narrative structure.
Dis-Advantages: being allowed or gaining permission to work within the location at certain times.