After deciding our groups, I'm with Milly and Zeyna, we thought about possible ideas; in order to help us we watched some new and upcoming thriller trailers. After writing up a variety of ideas we decided on one idea which linked closely with the current paranoia over the disease, Ebola, which has many people panicking over. Miss Sills said our idea shared some similarities with the film '28 Days Later' so we watched the opening to that to help us also.
This idea is one of favourites as there's a variety of things that we can include in the story opening; it's a theme that's very versatile, which means as a group we're free to explore different storylines etc. We could go down the route of (similar to most post apocalyptic films, such as 28 Days Later or I Am Legend) where a deadly virus/disease as wiped out the majority of the human race and only a few people left, the films protagonists, can survive. Or we could go down a different pathway entirely where perhaps the deadly virus has caused some sort of malfunction or unexpected plot twist where something out the ordinary as sinisterly happened.
I would like to include at least one high or low angle shots, as I think they are extremely effective and they're not seen/used that often and so therefore it makes a scene much more visually pleasing and interesting to view.
When planning a thriller plot it's important to think of the camera angles as these help tell the story. In the majority of thriller films, the antagonist is hidden from view of the audience, their identity kept a secret, and so the camera angles used will effect this. If we decide to stick to this convention, our camera angles will be limited as close ups to show facial expressions can't be used for the antagonist; however camera angles such as over the shoulder and point of view shots will be extremely useful to help build suspense - as the audience will see things for the villains point of view and yet won't know who they are.
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