Initial Ideas

During one of our Media Studies lesson we decided to settle down and discuss initial ideas for our thiller film. At first this proved to be a struggle, as we all had our own ideas of how we wanted the thiller to be, however we decided to make a hybrid of all of these ideas and create a spider diagram showing all of our best ideas.

Jack Windsor and Anthony Wilson came up with the idea of having a police interview with a man who has been brutally attacked. The Mise of Scene would be of a small room with very low key lighting. There would be a table with two chairs and beam of light in the centre of the table. When the Police Officer asked Anthony a question, such as "Who did this to you?" we would have a flashback to Anthony Wilson being stalked and attacked in the woods.

As a group we decided this would be very successful if we did it correctly. For example we didn't want it to come off cheesy with a bunch of hoodies chasing after one guy. We wanted to have menacing men with masks stalking the lone character an attacking him with no emotion. The men would be very reminscent of main masked character from the thriller film "The Strangers." This character showed no emotion as he tortured and killed helpless innocent people. How the characters were portrayed in the Strangers film really thrilled the audience and we wanted to do something very similar to this.



We asked Mrs. Cookson what she thought of our idea. She said It was a solid first idea, however she thought the attacking scene could destroy the film if done badly. We took this advice onboard and made sure we won't do anything ridiculous such as a Chasing Scene.

-By Jack Windsor and Anthony Wilson