At the very start of our task, our group sat down and listed different conventions in a thriller, to which we drew the initial ideas to make our film. Here are some examples of the ideas that we came up with...
Sub-Genre's
Mystery
Conspiracy
Supernatural
Conventions being used in our film
Crowds of people
Good Teacher/Bad Teacher
Brainwashing
Physco people
Day and Night Scene's
Uniformed Personnel (Suits, School Uniform)
Cliffhanger
Conventions being developed in our film
Schizophrenc
Tension building - slow editing and music
Camera work - Panning
Conventions being challenged in our film
Teacher's personalitity changing to bad
Children split personalitity
Challenge school - Nice and safe enviroment - Evil
Using the school bell for bad convention
A Female being Captured
Our group’s creative thoughts
As the title suggest, these are our groups creative ideas, we scratched our heads and pondered for about an hour before the creative juices started to follow, some of the ideas were very good and interesting, but would be difficult to create i.e. Psycho police which was a good idea and although it challenged the idea of the police being good, now bad, we would have the issue of costume. It would be hard to create a police uniform, without it looking the part.Mental Homeless people which would be a good idea and possible achievable if we had enough time in shooting and the right costumes and a small budget because I doubt that the actors would dirty there clothes to look the part. But some of the creative ideas were very good and easier to make i.e.
School Brainwashing which is a excellent idea because we would already have a location available by using our school. Although using teachers and students, possible acting and availability issues may occur.
Music and Lighting to hypnotize would be a very creative idea to use and it would require the use of several conventions and we could use previous professional films to see how they produce the hypnotized effect. With the short time we have to shoot and edit, creating the effect would be very hard to create and a large amount of camera work would be required.
Using the school bell could be used to challenge or incorporated it into our film as we could record our school bell ringing. If we were to use the school bell, it only rings once every hour except for the end of lunch were it rings 3 times.
