Initial Group Idea

Primarily, we gathered all our individual ideas together and picked out the most original details from each persons ideas and considered ways to create a new, effective, successful story line and opening sequence.

Therefore, we happily decided to mainly use Jess’s idea as her thriller will be located in a maze, we wanted to film something creative and original, and realized a maze has never been used before within thrillers at hurtwood, so this could show imaginative aspects, variety and innovation where appropriate.

However, we liked Jess’s idea but we preferred Ella’s story line and her opening sequence, so we therefore mixed the two ideas together to create an effective build up of tension and suspense within our thriller to create a completely new thriller.

So our final initial idea consists of a girl that had a nightmare one night while she was in a maze and a scary man steadily followed her. The girl started to have a nightmare each night, but it was like telling a story so it was not a new nightmare but it carried on and on. During the day the girl is stressed about the situation and would start to get visions of her nightmare in her everyday life routines, for example, if there were a mirror at some point during the day she would see the exact same mirror as in her nightmare. The girl started becoming confused about what was happening but at the end she understood that her nightmare was her death and the vision was just signs of awareness that the moment was coming. This nightmare carries on for 6 days until the seventh day while she was sleeping in her dream, the nightmare actually becomes reality and she ends with her death so she never woke up.

The whole movie is based on this nightmare and her vision and the struggle she has to go through to try and understand those visions and the idea of trying to chase time as it was running by.

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The opening sequence is the introduction of her nightmare.

Established shot of the location, the maze, then we will have an extreme zoom, so the camera enters into the maze and immediately follows the girl, who is trying to find her way out. This girl is standing in her night suite and she is really confused and frightened as it is all dark and smoky, she doesn’t understand why she is there and she holding a lantern to help clear the view. So we have many different shots of her walking in the maze.

Then we have a shot of her walking oppositely to the camera and while she is turning we have feet appearing in front of the camera and we are met with a figure that is starting following her.

So we got all this shots where we play to show contrast between the two figures and building up tension throughout the sequence. Then the girl starts to run as she realises that someone is following her and a wall and a full-length mirror standing in front of her stops her. The girl starts to look at her reflection and she notice how scared and terrified she is until she sees in the distance, in the mirror reflection, there is a figure of a man that was following her. Turning quickly around, there is nothing behind her, and confused, she turns really slow and instead of her reflection we have the mans reflection in the mirror instead. The girl gets so scared that she drops the lamp that suddenly switches off. Than we cut to her waking up all sweaty in her bed.

To get to this conclusion we had to discuss few things as we where so sure about the story line and the different shots. I believe as a group we work well as if we don’t get things we talk about it straight away and we are ready to listen at any new ideas to add to the content.

The main problems that we are going to come across is that we are all inexperienced and we are going to need to use all the time we have to organise this idea as well as possible and make more research to develop the idea into something more detailed and well studied.