Research and Planning- Conventions of a Psychological Thriller.

As we have decided that the genre of our film is a psychological thriller, we wanted to gain more of an insight to the conventions of this type of genre to help expand our idea and include certain aspects of the research in to our film opening and our film synopsis to make it as effective as possible to portray the genre.

Psychological Thriller:

• Emphasis on the psychological mental state of character(s) and the struggle of emotions that they are caught up in.
• Is a sub genre to the 'thriller' film genre.
• Characters reality is usually blurred; unsure of what exactly is going on.
• There can be twists in the story which require the audience to question and think of what can possibly happen next.
• Lots of enigma.
• Can also bring aspects/conventions of horror film genre in to it and link the two together to create a 'psychological horror'.
• Suspense is built up gradually.
• Can sometimes have characters investigating a situation on a character with the psychological problem for example.

Research and Planning: Initial ideas for new film opening.

Research and Planning: Timing and camera angles

Here are the camera angles and timings of each scene of our film opening:

Research and Planning: Film Synopsis

A character who is packing her suitcase, leaves her house discreetly to deliver a box to an unknown character at the bridge. The unknown character then comes to the bridge and collects the gift box and is known as the 'collector'. The person who is delivering the box is known as the 'deliverer'. 

Certain deliveries are made for a murder and on each delivery box, there is a code on the edge of the lid. The code unlocks the database on the computer of the victims who have been killed and the 10 victims who need to be killed. They need to be killed because they are apart of a secret agent group organisation. She (deliverer) has packed her suitcase because she was originally apart of the secret agent group organisation, but she turned against them as she was blackmailed by the murderers who are part of a different agent organisations. Throughout the film, there is a team of murderers who will receive different deliveries which contain certain murder tools to kill the secret agents. The code on the box is the code for each victim to be accessed on the computer database to be killed. The first particular box contains a necklace which contains some sort of deathly chemical poison which will be used to kill a certain victim. At the end of the film, nine deliveries have been made, one delivery is left but they cant track them down, but that last person who needs to be killed can not be found... 

Research and Planning: film idea.

In today's media lesson, we had to come up with our final idea for the film opening. At first I found it extremely difficult to think of an effective idea which also needed to have the aspect of enigma within it. As a group, we discovered that some of our ideas were way too over complicated for just a two minute opening, so we simplified things and came up with the right idea for our group. Our genre is a thriller.

Here is the film opening idea that we are going to do: 

Research and Planning: First initial ideas for film opening.

In yesterday's lesson, as a group we all each contributed our ideas and brainstormed them to get a clearer picture. The main genres we decided we would like to do are going to be either romance or a thriller. We discussed story plots for both genres. We also took in to consideration different aspects such as locations and actors. It is extremely important that we organise this before we create our storyboard in order to know exactly where and what we must film to create a professional film opening. As we have discussed initial ideas now, we are all going to do further research such as looking at even more film openings that are appealing to what we want to do; also we will go and look at locations to see if they will be appropriate for our film opening. In order to make an effective opening we must film as professionally as we can, make sure we are organised and that we have good actors to film.