Ideas

As a group we have made the decision to have thriller as our genre for our movie trailer. We decided this because, looking at all the thriller trailers on youtube, it looks fun and challenging to do, but well within our capabilities so we will be researching more into thrillers soon.

We had two main ideas (although we think we will go with the second one)
1. Thriller/Romance, a girl and boy couple, but one of them is a figment of the other's imagination (this is the basic idea, to be expanded) so this would also come into psychological thriller too. Movies like this are: 'The Uninvited', where a girl thinks her dead sister is still alive, big twist at the end, this movie falls into the psychological thriller genre, the other film like our idea is 'Just Like Heaven' which is actually a romantic comedy about a girl who is dead but doesn't realise it, and is only seen by this one man who thinks he is hallucinating.


2. A child at school is being bullied, finally he/she has had enough and seeks revenge on his/her bullies through violence. A movie like our idea is 'Tormented' about a child who is bullied, hangs himself and torments and haunts his bullies, and eventually killing them. As this is our preferred idea, we are going to look into this movie, and do more research on thriller/violence.

For idea number 2, we already have an idea of what we might do in our trailer. We would start with a panning shot around a circle of school children, it would be a point of view shot from the victim, we would probably edit it so the scene is slightly blurred and the taunting voices are echoed, then a blackout with possibly some text with a rhetorical question about bullying, then quick cut editing of murder scenes, finally the title, date etc coming up, and afterwards a quick scene with a bully looking into a mirror (convention of thriller) and something to make the audience jump. These are our basic ideas so far and need a lot more research before we expand.