Planning: Initial Ideas - MS B

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas of a group

In a group of four we had to discuss the ideas that each of us came up with. We listed down all of the ideas and this has given us so many ideas that we could include in our final idea for the thriller production. Overall we have decided to use different parts form each members idea to put together in our final idea. For example from my idea we may take the CCTC idea and from Amani's idea we are planning to use the gang or making this a group of friends.

First idea created was by Me:

Narrative: A supernatural women who murdered her 2 daughters because her partner has cheated on her so the women character has flashbacks of her killing her 2 daughters which makes her crazy and mentally ill so then she is taken to a mental hospital which she then starts killing her doctors.

Title: Killer

Sub-genre: Science Fiction
Characters: Two daughters, husband, mother and the two doctors
Location:House and Mental Health Hospital
Iconography: Blood, knife.
Costume of character: Mother dressed in brown t-shirt and jeans.
The husband dressed in a black suit and white shirt.
The two daughters are dressed in similar colours pink and white dresses.
Advantages of the idea:The advantages of this thriller is that the structure isn't so confusing as the audience would easily understand what is going on. The idea may mean that some of the audience could related that they went through the same mind set as they were cheated on too and this would create a relationship between the character and the audience.
Disadvantages of the idea:One disadvantage of this idea is that it may become too difficult to actually show the audience why the lady decided to kill her daughters and not her husband.

Second Idea by Hazal:

Narrative: A lady Sleep walks to her daughters room and kills her daughters by biting her neck. When she goes back to sleep, she has flashbacks of her biting her daughters neck and she thinks its a nightmare, she goes to her daughters room that her daughters room and she comes across to her daughters death. She could hear voices; 'You killed your daughter.' Her daughter disappears and there is no sign of her daughter. No one believes her and she is therefore sent to mental hospital and is taken care of. She has attacks at the end and has killed herself.
Title: Lady asleep
Sub-genre: Psychological Thriller
Characters: Mother, Daughter, Doctors and family friends.
Narrative structure:
Location: House and Mental Health Hospital
Iconography: Blood, sharp teeth, Cross necklace
Costume of characters: The mother wearing a black nightgrown.
The daughter is dressed in a white and pink striped pajamas.
Advantages of the idea: The idea of the mother being the killer and her sleep walking allows the audience to wonder if she actually commited the crime or if someone else did. This creates mystery and fear. Also it has clear structure allowing the audience to understand who is who and what is happening.
Disadvantages of the idea: The idea of the mother killing the child and not knowing that she killed her may be confusing for the audience as we only see the mother being the antagonist. If the mother states that she hasn't killed her daughter then who did. There are questions that haven't been shown and this may confuse the audience.

Third Idea by Amani:

Narrative: Boy on the path to success with a good education is led on the path to destruction after his brother is killed by a gang. He takes revenge on the gang by wiping out each member but the further he goes the deeper into darkness he gets and the more he finds about his brother.

Title: Revenge
Sub-genre: Action Thriller
Characters: two brothers, two gangs including about 5 boys in each gang present in the gang scenes.
Narrative structure:
Location: Street
Iconograpy: knife, blood, two different gang coloured symbols.
Costume of character:
The brother who is well educated in a casual jean and white top showing that he is normal guy minding his own business and also that he is someone innocent.
The brother who died in black t-shirt and tracksuit and blood all over him.
The gang members in dark coloured t-shirts and tracksuits with different coloured symbols like hats or gloves that show they are member of a certain gang.
Advantages of the idea:The idea is well written. It has a flowing structure and allows the audience to understand what is going on. Simple characters and costumes used to allow the audience to identify who is who in the action thriller.
Disadvantages of the idea:The filming of the gang members may become difficult as there are alot of people. The location of the thriller could become challenging as there might be people outside who may think the arguments are real between the two gangs.

Fourth Idea by Asli:

Narrative: Takes place in a school. One of the employees of the school watching the CCTV footage everyday after school. He/She starts to see something appearing in some of the classrooms and cuts are made of the CCTV footage. When He/She goes to the classrooms to check of there is anything wrong but tables moved around. In seven days, Seven students goes missing from the school.
Title:Missing Seven
Sub-genre: Crime
Characters: Employee of the school who checks the CCTC, the seven students.
Narrative structure:
Location: School
Iconograpy: blood
Costume of character: The seven students are dressed in school uniform with blood and mud all over them.The employee is dressed in a black suit and he has no hair.
Advantages of the idea: One advantage of the idea is that it shows obsession. Allows the audience to watch more and find out who the killer actually is.
Disadvantages of the idea:One disadvantage is that it is in a school. The idea may have been better if it took place somewhere else like a library or a hospital.