Planning: Developing Ideas Ms Heath

Developing Ideas

First Idea:

Narrative
The narrative for the first idea is that the antagonist is on a rampage and is on the hunt for two victims. The antagonist is crazy and his movements are unpredictable but he will stop at nothing until his victims are killed.

Characters:

The characters are as follows:

·         Antagonist: male, serial killer, Quiet but lethal, is usually in dark clothing.

·         Victim 1: young female, bright colours, nice sensible dress, very sociable.

·         Victim 2 : young female, collage wear, smart, casual

Lighting:
The lighting that will be used will mainly be low level lighting. It is going to be used when the antagonist closes in on the proximity between him and the two victims. There will be hints of high key lighting just to define the features and characteristics of the two victims.

Setting:

The setting that we are going to use to film our trailer will be in a couple places. The first location is a basement to play the role of the antagonist’s hideout. The second location that we are going to use is a middle class house where the two protagonists live and socialize together. This is also where the attack is going to happen on one of the victims.

Body Language:

The body language is going to be different for the antagonist to the protagonist. The antagonist body language is going to be tense throughout the trailer because of thrill he gets from killing. The protagonists body language is going to be relaxed because they are unaware of the situation they are gonna end up in. After that it all gets a bit hectic as the protagonists are running all over the place arms flailing while they are getting chased. In the end one of the victims body is going to motionless because she has been killed.

Second Idea

Narrative:
The narrative for the second idea is of  a young man who wants to get revenge on the three people that have bullied him back in secondary school and by doing that he has prepared for years just waiting on the right time to strike

Lighting:
The different lighting we will be using would be sepia lighting to show flashbacks, natural lighting for when we film outside and low key lighting for when the antagonist is in range of the protagonists inside their house.

Characters:

The characters are as follows:

·         Antagonist – very disturbed, organised, has a.d.h.d, clothing would be grey or black, has a mask

·         Victims: three victims. first victim young male, early 20s, very sporty, strong. Second victim young female, early 20s, pretty, very flirtatious, loves to go shopping, very sociable. Third victim young female, early 20s, not as pretty as other female, outcast, wants to fit in with the cool kids so hangs out with them.

Location:
The location we are planning to use in the thriller trailer are a bedroom/loft for where the killings are going to take place, a football pitch for where we first see the male protagonist, an alley way for where the victims are being stalked by the antagonist and the school playground for when the flash back is shown.

Iconography:

The iconography that will be used is a knife as it is one of the tools the antagonist has, a chainsaw because it is a power tool that is used to frighten the antagonist and a football and shopping bags to be associated with each of the victims.

The narrative sounds too complicated which makes me think that the target audience won’t be able to pick it up until it gets to the end

However this is a very conventional idea and a good idea, using some of the ideas taken from the thriller scream

Third Idea

Narrative
A man kidnaps a woman. A gang is trying to retrieve her and a huge chase scene happens where the man and the women are trying to escape the gang. Meanwhile the gang have guns and are shooting at them.

Lighting
There are two main lighting that are gonna be used in this idea. Low Key lighting is gonna be used when the chase scene approached a tunnel. The other one is going to be natural lighting as the trailer will be shot outside.

Characters

1 female late 20s dolled up. 5 males 4 are gang members smartly dressed, fifth male is on his own and looks scruffy.


Setting 
The settings are on the streets of London.

This idea was very vague and needed a lot of more information before it could be considered as the idea we go with.