Monday 2 December 2013

Opening Titles Development 1; 1st Ideas

Ever since the Preliminary Task, me and my peer Alex have been talking about the potential locations for outside thrillers if they were to take on board a particular gothical, dark theme.
Where I live in Poole, East Dorset, there's a good area of heathlands; Holton Heath, Upton Heath, and Canford Heath.

We have a list of things we've been told not to include in any of our tasks;
-Using actual guns; even if unloaded
-Cars in motion

File:Holton Bridge 1.jpgIn Holton Heath there is an old explosives site from WW2 that was closed down after the war by the Royal Navy and left as a nature reserve that is open to the public which would be great as it is a good place to film shots where you shouldn't have barely any sign of civilization apart from pylons and possibly the sound of distant cars on a dual carriage way. This Image to the left is from wiki of a particular rusty, old site for a potential scene in our opening titles.
This is a birds eye view of Holton Heath from Google Maps where the brown/ green areas in the center of this image are permitted pretty much to the public but surrounded by zones like the industrial estate (bottom right) and the greenery land (mid right) owned to an organization that is pretty much a creative day care for disabled people.
One of my peers, Alex, is planning to get an HD camera for our filming if we ever decided to film outside school boundaries e.g. in Holton Heath or somewhere of particular natural outside world interest, as we aren't allowed to take the schools' HD cameras outside the school.



To begin with, I was thinking of my group producing a thriller that falls into a simplistic sci- fi due to my love for sci- fi in general and the possibilities of the fictional world, although it would have to be a good idea to do on an extremely low budget of almost nothing. Then I had the idea of a psychological thriller of a girl being killed on the way from school by a dark mysteriously supernatural character.

My 1st Sci- Fi Thriller ideas
Taking the idea of Doctor Who/ Stargate combined
A portal between worlds/ planets
Portal could be a door
The protagonist (a psychic) locates the whereabouts of strange energy in a school
This psychic is a student which is trying to skive off a lesson in order to solve this energy signal in his head whilst being looked for by his fellow pupils; who think he is weird/ a problem child
He finds a door that leads to a destroyed world/ wasteland where he is met by a guy in worn out clothing telling him of a time where his world was destroyed by a psychic who mastered his abilities but used them for the sake of revenge and power making him incredibly corrupt 
This guy is suddenly killed by the power of thought by the parallel version of the protagonist who then realises he is in danger of himself taking over the world, and has to somehow overcome his anger in order to prevent his world being destroyed

Somehow this parallel will have to be revisited and not just a plot devise at the start

My 1st Psychological Thriller ideas
A girl is walking home down a dark path off the reaches of a residential estate from school
Is texted all of a sudden by an unknown contact saying “I’m here”
Turns around to see a dark figure in the trees staring at her
She starts to speed walk down the path as this figure seems to be jumping from one spot to another
Tries to get back off the path but is blocked by the figure and ends up taking a long cut through the trees until she stops under a bridge breathless
Suddenly she turns towards the horizon and sees the figure jump towards her closer and closer until it disappears and she breathes in relief but then is attacked from behind in a headlock and then a blank screen from her POV as her neck snaps

Bit of a dramatic/ graphic ending? :P

My Peer Sam had this 1st idea;
Film Title: Hacked
Characters:
Hacker
Police Detective
Victim
Plot:
A hacker is hacking into major banks across the globe, stealing large sums of money for personal gain. The police are actively hunting him down, but he is constantly on the move. As police raid where places he’s been staying previously, their computer systems are also getting hacked as the anonymous hacker removes their files on him. A victim – now homeless – is interviewed, describing the effects of losing everything. After a long and desperate hunt he is cornered and police prepare to invade his last hideout. Then, things take a turn for worse when the hacker has stolen all information from British banks, including personal information of customers and accounts. A choice is then given to the British government; a sum of £10 million to be paid and he leaves the country, or all information is given to major criminal organisations around the world, causing a massive economic collapse in Britain.




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