Brainstorming

When we started brain storming we started by writing our the key things we need to create a thriller opening;

As a group we wrote down different places that stereotypically used for an opening scene of a thriller, such as woods, offices, quiet streets and buildings. From our questionnaire we all agreed that we wanted to use woods and a house or what appears to be an abandoned building. This also suits the stereotype of locations within the thriller genre. We wrote down a number of different plot ideas that we could use for our thriller task, stereotypically murder, torture, crime, death, mystery are featured in a thriller film. As a group we wanted to stick to the conventions of a thriller and therfore stereotypically making the female characters the victims. We also wanted villain in our opening to make the opening tenser. We decided that light should be dark and mysterious, when editing we also wanted to change the contrast of the opening to make it seem more dangerous. we decided that the costume for the victims should be ‘normal’ but slightly dull clothing would be the best to use, for example colours such as blue’s, grey’s and cream’s this would then bring less attention towards the characters and make the audience think about the bigger picture. We brainstormed potential outcomes for eth ending of the opening such as murder, death and cliff-hangers.