For our first idea we came up with the idea of Cannablism based on sci-fi and supernatural sub-genre and how it could have evolved in futuristic events up to 20 years time. We discussed how it could be due to lack of resources such as food and water but also things such as bird flu and pandemics which would allow the population to decrease in deaths and survivors would have to resort to eating humans. We decided that this would be a good idea.
We wanted to set it up in a derelict supermarket which had been trashed and out of use due to looting. There would be a tracking shot of all the isles, filled with empty shelves, rubbish and blood stained floors to give the audience the idea of isolation and abandonment. For sound we wanted a rolling can and a close up to give the effect of alienation.
This idea was well recieved in the class and our teacher saw that this would be easy to create tension and suspense.
For our second idea we based it on Halloween and how in America they set up haunted houses in a Suburban village/town as an amusement. They use actors to play the part of ghosts and an unwanted presence in order to thrill and scare the viewers. We liked the idea of creating a haunted house which people went to but to change it a bit and for the surroundings in the house to go out of control and for the actors to either be, not actors by psychopaths/or actually are ghosts. Also the people inside the house would be screaming with no escape but could get no help from anybody as passers by would accept that as part of the amusement, not incidents of danger. Therefore the people who visited could not seek help.
We wanted to shoot the house with a board next to it strongly initiating to the audience that it is actually an amusement. For sound we chose children trick or treating and laughing and playing, and mums chatting so that everything seems normal but the audience know that it isn't normal.
Our third idea was based around a news story set in Roccarrso in Italy where they had discovered a whole in the ground in the snowy mountains. We chose for our Sub-genre to make it a conspiracy and sci-fi thriller in the sense that this hole could lead to a parrallel or another world.
We liked the idea for the beginning of shooting the snowy hills with a bird out of place (say something tropical like a parrot) flying over it and dying. This gives the audience the idea that something isn't quite right as the bird is clearly in the wrong climate but we question why it's there in the first place.
For our final idea we saw a story in the news about how a boat had set fire on the red sea, with only one survivor. We interpreted this in the aspect that for our thriller, the survivor could have been the one to set the boat alight and escapes.
In order to create this tension we had an image of a man walking around the boat with an oil can in isolated waters, the audience doesn't know why he's doing it or where he's come from, and at the end he lights the match and jumps off the boat. But the audience don't know what happens to him after. I also liked the image of him lighting the match, flicking it and the screen going black. So nobody knows what will occur. This would be a conspiracy and sci-fi thriller as it is a government opperation. All of which the audience know nothing about within the first few minutes.
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