Thriller Group and Pitch idea

Last week in our media class we were allocated our groups for our thriller, my group consists of Christian, Eduarda, Anastasia and I. Upon being placed into our groups we began to discuss our 3 individual thriller ideas, and I was surprised to learn that no two were in any way similar. Many of the ideas although very different all had a slight cliché feeling to them such as the concept of being in the woods, paranormal phenomenon’s, gun fights and terror. We conversed our ideas and went through a process of finding things from each of our thrillers that can fit together to fit into one thriller. We tossed round the ideas and immediately decided that we wanted a male and a female and wanted the male to have a slight psychopathic feel to him. We agreed on the idea of the female getting murdered but how it was going to happen and the location is where we differed, we firstly looked at my idea for an elevator but after consideration decided that it would be very complex to create the setting or find a space that would be able to fulfil what we had in mind for the look and angles of the thriller. We moved on to Eduarda idea of him sneaking up on her in the woods but this was an example of cliché that we wanted to move away from so we scraped it which then made us continue to eventually come to the point of choosing to set it in a hotel and decide how to put it all together. Now we have come up with our final idea that we are ready to pitch to Matt and Luke in the coming weeks we just need a test shoot and further development.

The plotline follows that a well-groomed man is getting himself prepared as if going to work or a night out with gestures such as straightening his tie and buttoning his shirt. Starting this with a close-up and slowly zooming out to reveal a woman’s legs sprawled across him in fishnet tights and high heels, his phone begins to ring and it is his wife that is calling him, when this happens it is suggested to the audience that he is an unfaithful man to his wife, he excuses himself by saying “sorry I didn’t come home last night babe I was caught up with work”. He then proceeds to stand up and kneel on the floor next to her grasping her hand and performing very unusual actions such as smelling her wrist and feeling her hand against his face. As this takes place he begins to speak to his young son over the phone making the audience increasingly angry against this man, he begins to stroke the woman’s hair and her head tilts towards the camera and it is revealed she has in fact had her throat slit by this man and she is dead, revealing a plot twist to keep the audience on their toes and keeping both tension and surprise alive. Towards the end he erases any traces of her identity by removing teeth and fingernails before disposing of her completely to end the thriller. We felt this was an effective idea because there is sustained tension throughout with many plot twists and reveals to keep the audience completely engaged with what is going on.

The Thriller will then go on to follow this story:

The film continues to follow the life of the man, that we later discover to be a psychotic serial killer, that goes about killing his sexual affairs from the night before, which are mostly blonde women that we later on discover is due to his obsession with their hair colour that reminds him of the first girl he has ever fallen in love with, when he was a child, but whom eventually humiliated him by rejecting his love. His whole obsession is driven by revenge and self satisfaction that he achieves by killing women that resemble her. We also find out that the original girl he first fell in love with, turned out to be his wife. Which is what strikes the audience at the end of the movie, because we are left unsure of what will happen to her. The whole question is why does he kill women that look like his wife, but not the wife herself? The film ends with the question unanswered.  This shows his insanity.