Presenting my Initial Idea

In order to begin the process of pre-production for our foundation projects, as a class we individually pitched potential thriller/horror film ideas to the remainder of the class. It was important that each idea fulfilled the conventions of the genre and provided an effective opening sequence that ancored down generic identity and was achievable and engaging.

My idea involved...

The main character is the woman stalker. Another important character for the first sequence is a man who is the main victim. I have decided to go against the social expectations of society by putting them this way round which i'm hoping will be more effective and maybe attract a larger target audiance. The titles would be in handwriting to connote stalker qualities.

The woman stalker is seen writing a letter which looks ordinary. However the camera will track back and we will see a lot of letters around her in piles. This then cuts to five cork boards each board is for one particular person covered in lots of pictures. So the audience sees that she has 5 victims. The camera tracks into the centre cork board which is the main victim explored in the opening sequence.

The camera then cuts to the woman walking out of her house and onto a street. The stalker is following this man on a road taking pictures of him on the opposite side of the road. The stalker follows this man to his house and watches him go inside. She waits outside briefly and sees him talking to a another man. As she is about to leave, the two men walk outside and she watches one man change the ‘for sale’ sign to ‘sold’.

The stalker runs home rips down this mans pictures from the centre cork board. Turns around and the POV shot sees hundreds of photos of her next victim. The sequence ends on the stalker taking one picture of the new victim and placing it in the centre of the centre cork board.



Locations I would need are...

Interior of Stalkers House/Office
Exterior of Victims House
Street/Road



Props/Actors I would need are...

5 Cork Boards and drawing pins.
For sale and sold sign.
Woman stalker with green eyes to connote envy (could be student)
One man (could be student)



How is tension created?

The audience knows that the victim is being stalked. The victim doesn’t and has a lucky escape.
There is more than one victim.
The ending shot is of the woman putting up a picture of a new victim.



Why should my idea be chosen?

I didn’t steal this idea from anything else.
Its not going to be expensive.
The locations are easy to find.
I’m open to ideas and changes.
It would attract female viewers as well because the stalker is a woman. They may be able to relate to it more.

I would envisiage this film to be made by an independant british production company such as channel for films. My target audiance would be proedominatly male, 25 + and would respond to a complicated unravelling narrative, the build up of suspence an enigma and a focus on voyerism.