Monday, 15 September 2014

My Initial Idea's

The genre i am looking into is Thrillers, However i want my films to also be a Psychological thriller. I would like my film to be relatable in a way where its the audience's fear of something happening to them like being followed at night time, being scared to go into a grave yard, feel like you are being watched.
Thriller films are usually based around Good and Evil ( like Strauss) At the beginning of the film, there is peace that has been disturbed by something or someone which leads to a chain of bad things happening. The aim of the main character is to then restore piece. The main conventions are low key lighting creating a dark mysterious atmosphere. mise-en-scene is a big old fashioned house which is in a wide open space. Using a young woman as a victim and being the main character, however usually ends up being the 'final girl.'

I have two brief story lines for my film. i will choose one of them once I've done some research to my target audience, asking which one they think is best. 


Film Idea's -

My first idea is based around a girl named Georgia aged 18. She doesn't have a dad so the mom is a single parent, however she died soon after she was born. The film will start when in they she is 18 years old and is living with her aunt.The sister is looking through some old photo boxes when she comes across a hidden box, which holds pictures of another baby, a birth certificate and information on where she is, she soon discovers she has a twin sister called Elise. She becomes obsessed with finding her other sister and when she does, its the biggest regret of her life.

Narrative (Equilibrium, Dis-Equilibrium)

The twin sister is locked away in a hospital, she has been there since the day she was 2. Their mom sent her there because she was born with an upside down cross ( sign of the devil ) on the lobe of her ear, and the mom was convinced her little girl was possessed. The two daughter where inseparable in the first few years they were born, the one little girl (Elise) was different too the other, and every photo taken of her came out blurry or has weird orbs around her, and every night the young girl Georgia used to cry saying Elise scared her and someone was in the wardrobe. The mom decided to take her away to hospital and on the way back she died in a car crash, but no evidence of another car crashing into her was ever found. 
(Equilibrium) Georgia is 18, and is looking for cute baby photo's of her and her mom to stick on her wall when she comes across a hidden box.(Dis-equilibrium) Inside the box there is baby photo's of her, Elise and her mom, The strange photo's of her sister, She finds birth certificates and a piece of paper with her and location on it. Georgia goes to find Elise and finds nothing wrong with her and takes her home. But what Georgia does know is that Elise isn't as normal as she thinks. As days pass by more and more weird paranormal things start happening to Georgia. This carries on until Georgia discovers that Elise is planning to take revenge on Georgia and live in life she never got to live.


My other idea is also going to be a Thriller, however it will also have sub-genre's like fantasy drama. Very much like the film 'Lucy' 

My Second Idea - 
My second idea is based around a book. The plot of the story is, a girl called Esther gets given a book by a random lady in the street. When she decides to read this book she notices this book is about her entire life, The rest of the story is based around whether she will read the book till the end. 

Narrative (Equilibrium, Dis-Equilibrium)
(Equilibrium) Esther is a normal 19 year old and is looking at the stalls on a market in her town, She comes across this one stall, separate from all the others. On the stall is an old lady selling books, Esther goes over to this stall and the lady hands her a book, She says its for her with no charge. Esther take's the book home and starts reading it. (Dis-equilibrium) As she reads it she realizes this book is about her life, she carries on reading it till it gets to the day she brought the book off some woman. She decides to carry on reading little bits of the book, however every bit she reads something more distressing happens to her or her family. She reads it up to her age of 30 and gets so distressed by the book and all the things that happen to her she rips all the pages out from the day she got the book. The next day Esther has disappear and no where to be seen. When she destroyed the book, she destroyed the rest of her life.








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