Planning: Initial ideas

Initial ideas

Each member of my group had their own ideas of the type of thriller they wanted to create. We discussed them as a group and used this to help decide on a final idea.



Idea 1
Sub-genre: psychological thriller
Narrative: boy who seeks revenge for the death of his parents by killing his victims by the order of their birthday
Title: happy birthday
Characters: two male and one female(victims), a 17 year old boy(antagonist) and the police
Setting: city
Theory: Can use Todorov's theory of start middle and end. Conventional characters that the audience will expect to see.
Themes: Violence, revenge, family
Audience response: They will feel scared of the boy but at the same time they will feel sorry for him because he has lost his parents and clearly he is really affected by this.
Positives: can cause good audience response, character can be likable and feared at the same time.
Negatives: not sure if we can portray believable deaths and if we can show this is two minutes.



Idea 2

Title: Bipolar relapse
Sub-genre: psychological thriller
Characters: doctor, nurse,  female victim and antagonist
Narrative: a women who is the victim of rape  becomes tormented and seeks for revenge. She is in a mental home because people think she has lied and she escapes and gets her revenge on her attacker.
Setting: a hospital and a dark room
Themes: revenge, rape, childhood, innocence
Theory: Propp's characters and good themes used
Audience response: they will want the victim to get her revenge and they will feel sorry for her.
Positives: can twist the audiences emotions so can be quite clever, characters should be easy to portray
Negatives: rape is quite a sensitive issue to show so not sure how we would show this on the screen



Conclusion

By sharing our ideas we are able to see the similarities and differences in our ideas, who's idea can be accomplished with the equipment available and how we can make it into one idea. We should now have a brief idea of what our thriller would be as we can see that both our ideas have the same sub-genre and a character wanting revenge so we will use this idea. I think the female getting revenge on the attacker is going to be easier to do so this is the idea we will go along with and plan.