Our Planning

Once our resesearch was finished we then had to try and decide what kind of thriller we were going to make. From the research, we found out that the most common thriller movies were psychological ones, therefore we decided we did not want to do one of these as we wanted to do something different to what thriller films are out already. By bringing in all of our research and ideas we had, after a long discussion we finally decided on making a Horror Thriller. We thought this was a good idea as the codes and conventions of a horror thriller are quite clear so we thought we would be able to make it familiar but also something new at the same time which is what our audience will want.

we started out by making a brainstorm of  the plot ideas, the setting and the characters that we could use in our Horror Thrillers. Bringing in ideas using the usual conventions of a horror but also ones that would be quite different to what audiences have seen already. Here is our brainstorm:





Once we brainstormed all of our different ideas, we decided to choose one plot idea that we all very much liked. With this in our head we thought of the characters we would use in it, the clothing, the props and the different settings that we could use for this idea. This is what we came up with:





We came up with the idea to break the convention of a horror film where the woman is always the victim trying to get away and the man is the villain, we were thinking that we would change it so that in ours we would have the woman as the strong villain and the male as the weak victim. I feel that we all came up with some very good ideas on what we want to see in the opening of our horror thriller, however i feel that we need to try and stick to some of the conventions of a horror so that the audience will be able to have an idea of what type of genre it is. To help me out i am going to go and watch some openings to horrors and to see how they have made the audience feel alot of tension and suspense while watching.