Showing posts with label Initial ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Initial ideas. Show all posts
Saturday, November 24
Our Group Idea
As a group we decided to centre our idea around Grovelands park as we all like it as a setting, i really like the idea of having a chase scene and having a tall, striking man chasing (striding confidently) after a dainty frantic younger girl. Dressed in black and white respectively to show the contrast. I think that the weakness of this idea is the fact that we will be shooting outside in December so as well as being unpredictable (rain, cloud etc) it will also be uncomfortable - which would be a problem getting actors on board, and obviously would put a strain on continuity. However we do all like the setting a lot and we like the idea that it will be challenging - particualry in the area of camerawork as the majority will be moving.
Friday, November 9
Initial Idea 2
I have another idea which i think could also use my garden shed which i think is really good as it's really quite creepy (i don't like going into it in daylight).
This idea is a little more vague than my first one, but basically the event happening in it would be someone discovering something very disturbing happening in the shed. So possibly it is a girl and her boyfriend is secretly a serial killer, and he has told her not to go into it but (obviously)she does it anyway and then at the end of the opening sequence he finds her snooping and we hear screaming (and then it jumps to earlier or later in the film).
This idea is a little more vague than my first one, but basically the event happening in it would be someone discovering something very disturbing happening in the shed. So possibly it is a girl and her boyfriend is secretly a serial killer, and he has told her not to go into it but (obviously)she does it anyway and then at the end of the opening sequence he finds her snooping and we hear screaming (and then it jumps to earlier or later in the film).
Initial Idea
We have been put into groups and we are having our first meeting on Wednesday so we set a target to have an initial idea by then, and this the favourite one of mine:
The opening is shots of a normal, middle-aged (early 30s) man in his house (study) organising/arranging/cleaning surgical tools, and sometimes there is maybe a photograph of him and his wife shown. Then the phone rings and he answers it and you see him pick up one of the photographs, smile (slyly) and say 'I'm sorry she's not here at the moment can i take a message', then he snaps on rubber surgical gloves.
It's late (around duskish, or else it would be too dark to shoot) and he goes into his garden and starts to walk up his garden path towards the very overgrown part at the back of his garden towards his shed (with his surgical tools). He scrapes the door open and there tied up is the women in his photos - i.e. his wife.
I think the title should be something like 'the ultimate betrayal' - or possibly something a little more warped. I think this idea is good because it leaps straight into the action and because it taps into audience fears - someone close abusing your trust/something twisted going on right in front of you.
An alternate in the structure could use parallel editing - so in between the shots of the male lead there would be blurry POV shots of his wife waking up from being drugged/unconscious etc.
Although to add a real element of surprise he would have to be doing something very not suspicious so the audience thinks 'oh dear, he doesn't know his wife is in trouble' - but then as someone comes to open the door of the shed we see that it's him. But this presents the problem of continuity wise it wouldn't be much of a surprise as we would have to see him going towards a shed and the audience would inevitably assume he is going to see her.
So although there are still some formalities/problems i think it's good because, as far as i know, it hasn't been done in previous years as they seem to have focused on stalking, abduction, and gangster thrillers.
The opening is shots of a normal, middle-aged (early 30s) man in his house (study) organising/arranging/cleaning surgical tools, and sometimes there is maybe a photograph of him and his wife shown. Then the phone rings and he answers it and you see him pick up one of the photographs, smile (slyly) and say 'I'm sorry she's not here at the moment can i take a message', then he snaps on rubber surgical gloves.
It's late (around duskish, or else it would be too dark to shoot) and he goes into his garden and starts to walk up his garden path towards the very overgrown part at the back of his garden towards his shed (with his surgical tools). He scrapes the door open and there tied up is the women in his photos - i.e. his wife.
I think the title should be something like 'the ultimate betrayal' - or possibly something a little more warped. I think this idea is good because it leaps straight into the action and because it taps into audience fears - someone close abusing your trust/something twisted going on right in front of you.
An alternate in the structure could use parallel editing - so in between the shots of the male lead there would be blurry POV shots of his wife waking up from being drugged/unconscious etc.
Although to add a real element of surprise he would have to be doing something very not suspicious so the audience thinks 'oh dear, he doesn't know his wife is in trouble' - but then as someone comes to open the door of the shed we see that it's him. But this presents the problem of continuity wise it wouldn't be much of a surprise as we would have to see him going towards a shed and the audience would inevitably assume he is going to see her.
So although there are still some formalities/problems i think it's good because, as far as i know, it hasn't been done in previous years as they seem to have focused on stalking, abduction, and gangster thrillers.
Monday, October 29
Inspiration: Past Thriller Projects
Under the Gun
I think that the Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography in this opening sequence is particularly good. The colour in it appears as if it used to be so vibrant and saturated, and it's not that now it's cold with blue/grey tones, it's just that it's faded and become so much less passionate. The lighting also creates suspicion from the audience, the shadows and dark corners seem very sinister, connoting something very illegal/underground etc. The Mise-en-Scene as a whole creates the sense of past glamour/the darker side of glamour - the glamour connoted by the suit, cards, crystal glasses, but it's all dragged down by the grimey ashtrays and tiny box room. The cinematography is full of tight frames, the use of CUs and MCUs and low angles shows the panic of the male character and the disgust and passion/feistiness of the female. It also shows how to-close-for-comfort the tiny room is, and how intimidating the male lead is.
Exposure
I think the continuity in this opening sequence is by far the best because it follows all of the rules.
It has lots of brilliant matches on action - for example when he bursts through his bedroom door
It had dissolve transitions to slow the pace down and to heighten emotion
It also has a fade to black at the end of the clip which conventional symbolises the passing of time, so possibly the opening sequence is in a separate time frame to the next part of the film.
It increases realism with loud diegetic sounds like the running water, keys rattling etc
The pace is fast at the beginning which a little unconventional but it balances this out by slowing it down after a minute or so.
I think that the Mise-en-Scene and Cinematography in this opening sequence is particularly good. The colour in it appears as if it used to be so vibrant and saturated, and it's not that now it's cold with blue/grey tones, it's just that it's faded and become so much less passionate. The lighting also creates suspicion from the audience, the shadows and dark corners seem very sinister, connoting something very illegal/underground etc. The Mise-en-Scene as a whole creates the sense of past glamour/the darker side of glamour - the glamour connoted by the suit, cards, crystal glasses, but it's all dragged down by the grimey ashtrays and tiny box room. The cinematography is full of tight frames, the use of CUs and MCUs and low angles shows the panic of the male character and the disgust and passion/feistiness of the female. It also shows how to-close-for-comfort the tiny room is, and how intimidating the male lead is.
Exposure
I think the continuity in this opening sequence is by far the best because it follows all of the rules.
It has lots of brilliant matches on action - for example when he bursts through his bedroom door
It had dissolve transitions to slow the pace down and to heighten emotion
It also has a fade to black at the end of the clip which conventional symbolises the passing of time, so possibly the opening sequence is in a separate time frame to the next part of the film.
It increases realism with loud diegetic sounds like the running water, keys rattling etc
The pace is fast at the beginning which a little unconventional but it balances this out by slowing it down after a minute or so.
Sunday, October 14
So far...
I don't really want to start putting solid ideas together, i want to gather themes, characters, locations etc which i like and then start to piece them together.
- A 'normal' setting - suburban
- Innocence - corruption of
- A sickly sweet, cute (innocent) female
- A false hero
I don't tend to like films in which the villain is medically mentally unstable, i think it's much more unnerving for the audience if the villain has nothing physically wrong with them - more of a socio-path
Thursday, September 27
Inspiration
Rear Window and Disturbia have given me so much inspiration for my thriller!
I really really love the idea of a normal setting - probably suburban (don't know why) - and then something really twisted and warped going on behind closed doors. I think it's a great chance to be creative and i think it also taps into fears of the audience right now which is a big part of a successful thriller. So i think most of my initial ideas will be based around this area.
Some other examples are:
- Lantana
- Blue Velvet
I really really love the idea of a normal setting - probably suburban (don't know why) - and then something really twisted and warped going on behind closed doors. I think it's a great chance to be creative and i think it also taps into fears of the audience right now which is a big part of a successful thriller. So i think most of my initial ideas will be based around this area.
Some other examples are:
- Lantana
- Blue Velvet
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