1st meeting for our new Thriller Idea

On Wednesday , Neelam wasn't in however myself and Samantha still went forward with beginning our storyboard to create a new Thriller. We kept ideas that came from our original one such as using a variety of different shots like the opening of "Se7en" and someone having a psychological disorder but changed the fact that they're on drugs when they are on their "killing spree's".
Instead we drew up a very simple story line which hopefully will make sense to our audience depending on how we re-arrange our shots.

Storyline:

Our idea was inspired by the film "Trainspotting"; although this isn't a thriller, we wanted to use some elements of the Mise en scene used in this. We liked the idea of the main character giving a list he needs to get off heroin. We began to thing of ideas related to this but decided not to use drugs. Our main character, will use item to represent his low status, class and intelligence such as eating cold beans clumsily. His surroundings will look run down,worn out and unhygeneic.

Our main character will live alone in the dark and will have psycological problems. The main prop we'll use is a yearbook which shows pictures of girls he fancied in his school days. Some pictures will have hearts around them whereas others will be scribbled out. There will also be flashes on light which shows pictures of girls, unbeknown to them, on his walls. This shows his obsession with these soon to be victims. As the camera concentrates of a certain picture of a girl, there will be a flashback of that girl in his place where she has just been killed by him. There will be several more flashbacks from different school pictures to them dead in different areas of his apartment. The flashbacks will represent the past which will go back to the present where the man is looking at the book.

We thought of many settings to film our thriller and came up with the idea of a shed. A shed is a very secretive place and is from the public's eye for them to witness women going in there or even suspect any murders happening. We also do not want to show all of the man's face to create alot of suspense.

There will be hardly any lighting except from the windows so when the man stands in front of them it will create a silouette effect. Our shots will vary but there will be alot of close ups. Also low angles can be used to make the man look powerful.

We have no decided on the type of background music to use yet. We need a good pace to match the speed of our opening so we need to choose the genre of music after we have edited our thriller.