For my short film project, I am working in partnership with Hugh Stokes.
To start, we briefly discussed the genres of Film that appealed to us most in a cinematic sense and ended up choosing Thriller.
We felt that the genre was a more interesting one to both of us and decided to go down the route of the sub-genre; Psychological Thriller.
We then drew up the outline for our Short Film, which is untitled as of yet, which is as follows;
The opening scene would show the main character, a male teenager (Unnamed) just hours after his best friend is murdered in cold blood.
In the following scenes, we would show the mental deterioration of his character personified in an ambiguous figure who seems to be following him. The main character's paranoia would play a pivotal role in creating an illusory sense of impending death which would eventually lead him to commit suicide, and it would then be revealed that the existence of this "follower" is imaginary.
This plot we believed help create a fair outline of the typical Psychological sub-genre of Thrillers as it includes the familiar "Innocent Character on the run" and a "Stalker". These are two common character types features in classic Thrillers that we intend to incorporate into our work.
The next step is to decide on any secondary characters that could appear in the piece and then start the scripting and scouting for locations.
