Group Discussion

This was supposed to be uploaded in October when it took place, but I have had trouble uploading this video which is why it is on here late, I have also had problems with uploading my 2 other trailers analyses off of slideshare, I will be posting these on here soon.

In this discussion which took place, we all discussed our ideas individually and were trying to blend them together to create a good film plot.

The idea which Lucy had was based on a psychological thriller, where a group of teenagers became trapped in a mental institution, the teenagers were trapped and were being killed off one-by-one, this was until the final main character had come to the conclusion and realization that they had become mentally ill/unstable. This did sound like a very effective idea, but considerations had to be made on where we could film the trailer, as well as props which we could use, due to lack of budget, we wouldn't be able to buy props for a location which would make it look like an old mental institution e.g. beds, wards etc.

Lauren's idea was of a group of teenagers which had gone camping, but did not realize that a curse lurked within the woods. The curse was left there from a little psychotic girl who murdered her own family there. It is said that she still haunts the woods looking for new victims. The characters in the film each get killed off one-by-one until there are 2 characters left, the twist in this plot is that they then get arrested by the police as murders and once they try to explain what had happened, they get treated as being mentally ill and are sectioned to a mental institution. There are limitations to this plot, the props could be an issue, e.g. police car, police uniform etc, also this is not a very original plot as this type of plot is very stereotypical for a psychological thriller.

My idea was a psychological thriller. The main personality which is key to the plot was a brother who suffers from schizophrenia who enjoys playing hide and seek with his little sister. The plot takes place in one night, this night, they order a take away whilst their parents are out, but the delivery man also suffers from schizophrenia and sneaks into the house and begins to have a mental breakdown. Whilst the brother and sister are playing hide and seek, he joins in without them knowing, but is playing a twisted version in his mind by seeking for them both to kill them. A chase encounters throughout the house. The ending is that after killing off both the brother and the sister. The delivery man realizes its his schizophrenia that is making him act the way he is, he gets put into a mental institution for life. There are many limitations to this plot as we don't have any actors which would fit the age of these characters.

We concluded that we were not going to use completely one persons idea, we have come to the decision of incorporating each others plots to create one plot., we are going to be using Lauren's idea of locating the film in the woods as it is easily accessible at any time. We decided to go with the idea of having a group of girls but one of the females in the group suffering from an undiagnosed case of schizophrenia. She flips out by attacking her friends, but her friends just presume she has a 'short fuse'.