Titles and opening of a new action film lasting roughly two minutes.
We have chosen a Demographic of 16 to 25.
Initial Idea
A girl and her family move to Houston, Texas from England. Then one night whilst watching T.V. a crazed man, who has just escaped from a local Mental Health Asylum, breaks into the house and slaughters Holly's family in front of her. He leaves her for dead. The movie is set 10 years after the murders and a nineteen year old Holly discharges herself from a psychiatric ward. The audience follows her pathway to a new life. She has no memory of her past as doctors trialled a new drug which has wiped her slate clean. A few months after her freedom she begins to suffer with flashbacks. Follow the journey of discovery but how will she handle the truth? and will the urge for revenge take over? (common conventions)
We chose not to use this idea because we wanted a storyline that wasn't as common or had never been used in a psychological thriller before. We also wanted to steer away from some of the more common conventions such as killers/murderers to give our audience a fresh outlook for the genre 'psychological thriller', without going to off track.
Chosen Idea - 'A distant memory'
Set in Britain, the movie follows the story of two teenagers. One teenager (girl) has a mental illness and has turned to alcohol to solve her problems. The other teenager (boy) is more reserved and seems to be troubled by something. We later discover that the teenage girl is living two years in the past and the teenage boy in the present. The girl had died those two years ago and her spirit had remained trapped there, reliving that moment. The teenage boy was going out with her at the time of her decline and has never really recovered from her death, making frequent trips to her grave. The movie shows her decline in health (through flashbacks and split screen editing), her addiction to alcohol and eventually her death. (Common conventions)
We chose this idea because it remained a psychological thriller but didn't have so many common conventions that would make it predictable, boring and uninspiring to watch. We believe that this idea would appeal to our target audience of teens 16-25 because it would create a fresh outlook on this type of genre as well as creating that enigma needed for them to continue to watch. Our film remains original whilst sticking to some of the conventions that keep it a Psychological Thriller.
