Groupwork - Ideas

During our first lesson as a group, Tanya, Ben and I mind-mapped possible story ideas. As keen Thriller / Horror fans, we decided to stick to this genre because we feel that it has very specific generic signifiers and we know we can produce something very exciting, yet effective. In our mind-map we identified some of the notable conventions seen in Thrillers and Horrors such as:

• Typical themes (e.g. Revenge, Obsession, Murder, Fear e.t.c.)
• Key iconography
• Dark lighting -create gloomy, tense atmosphere
  
• Typical locations
  
• Typical characters/character roles (e.g. Killer, Victim)
• Use of canted angles, zooms and jump cuts - create sense of disorientation, fear, paranoia
• Alternating the pace of cuts to create and build tension

By the end of our first session we had produced a few ideas. However, only two seemed to be the most practical and we intend to develop these further:

• The ''Rose Killer'' idea - day in the life of the notorious killer, except we don't know it is him until the end

• ''Obsession'' idea - based on an obsessive man who killed his girlfriend out of his love-fueled fixation on her

We agreed to hold the first of our group meetings, in order to discuss these ideas, and any others that may come up. The summary of which, can be seen on our group blog.