Outline

 OUTLINES

My team has found a fascination with the horror/psychological thriller genre since it has been a strength of ours in the past. 

Previous horror/psychological thriller films

Virginia and I made a minute and a half film last October named “Toby Has Friends” that was about a boy named Toby who wanted to bring his friends to this “special spot” to bury away all their secrets. It turns out in the end that what he was burying was his friends and the entire beginning of the film was a hallucination. This film included a lot of suspenseful and creepy 50s music to add to our vintage aesthetic. The shot's composition and build-up towards the end were done to create an uneasy feel to the audience since now they are finally realizing that Toby had killed his friends and he hallucinated the interactions from before. Due to the size of the video, I am unable to upload the film.

Another film that Virginia created in the past was “Critiqued” which tells the story of a writer who is learning to take on criticism from a publishing company. She copes with this by viewing a painting on her wall and then slowly goes crazy after being told her writing isn’t “good enough.” The speedy shot composition and gory shots help build the horror and psychological thrill in our audience. Due to the size of the video, I am unable to upload the film.

Brainstorming

Our brainstorming process started at looking up horror writing prompts to get inspiration or give ourselves some sort of prompt to build off of. After much research, there was a lack of inspiration from this research, so we had to go completely off of our creativity. We had proposed an idea of something in a church but realized we would not have a church to film in. Next, we thought of doing a political candidate that started to go mad, but realized we might not have access to an actor that could realistically pull off as a political candidate due to our age. After much thought, I proposed we do a story on someone who is stuck in purgatory, which would be represented through a completely white room that would either be completely empty or have a few objects that represented the character’s life. The plot twist is that he has no memory of his life and is now put to judge the life of this person “Steve” who he has no clue is himself. Through this would be the determination if he goes to heaven or hell. This whole plot will not be able to be represented through the entire opening, but a flash of them trying to understand where they are with a combination of the credits big on the screen to build this suspense and tension.