The first vision of my partners film and mine was to be set in a forest. In the forest 3 boys and 3 girls go out to camp and when 2 of them go missing the remaining 4 kids go and look for them. Whilst searching in the woods in the darkness of the night and psychotic man is hiding in a tree waiting to leap onto his next victim. As one of the remaining 4 children gets lost on her own, the psycho finds her and jumps onto her, startling the audience.
Initially we thought this was a very goods storyline. It incorportaes fear, suspense and keeps the audience on their toes. It fits the typical connotations of a thriller where a character usually comes into conflict with an outside force being abstracts or creepy and potentially ruining the character's life. we had props for police lines, tents and even camping gear.
As we looked closer into the storyline there were many drawbacks for us and as we realised it would be a lot harder to implement. We would only get the chance to film for about 1 hour a day. Reason for this is that it would be impossible to film in pitch black in the middle of the forest, some light would be required. With too much light, it would make the film less scary so I would have to make sure we filmed at twilight. Furthermore it would be extremly difficult to balance and position my camera's in such a way that they would sit on top of tree branches whilst tilting and panning.
Although our initial idea was good, because of the dilemma's we would have faced, we decided to change the location of our storyline which in turn meant we would have to look at alternate ideas for my thriller film.
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