First production meeting : ideas generation

Our group had 3 initial ideas. This was two action thrillers and one comedy action thrillers.

Our first Idea - Action Thriller.

Our theme for this idea was the mafia. We had a mcguffin that was a bag, which had no actual relevance to the thriller. We also had a cliffhanger, which was that one of the bags was switched but the characters do not know. The story is quite simple but an effective thriller. The setting of the thriller would be an estate block. There would be a exchange of conversation and an exchange of bag. What the characters do not know is that the same bag is with another character who is ease dropping on the exchange. This character would drive away creating confusion for the audience and the thriller opening would stop there.

Our second action thriller was the idea of a chase. We had a cliffhanger that was a betrayal from one of the characters. The story entails a casual day out in the neighbourhood when all of a sudden we see our villain. Then it becomes increasingly tense. The chase then starts with the characters after each other. Once they had trapped the villain in alleyway they then close on in on the him. At the end one of the other character betrays them to join the villains team.

Our third idea was a comedy thriller. The mcguffin in this opening would be valuables in the car. They have no actual relevance to the thriller. The story starts in the car with a bit of joyful music. There would be jokes being thrown in the car and funny banter between characters. We plan to pick up another character. This character is the creepy one. The audience would know this by the non diegetic music we would put after he his introduced. Then we would go for a drive and out of nowhere crash. Everyone would be badly injured or dead. The camera would track to the creepy characters phone, which is ringing. He would then pick up the phone then walk away. With the finishing speech "the job is done"

In the end, it was decided that the second idea was the best to go for! This was because we thought it could make the most effective thriller opening. We can use a good range of camera shots to embodied around a real thriller. The mix of both McGuffin and cliff-hanger would be the best way to get the audience wanting more. As we have access to props, location and costumers with the second idea it could lead to a much more successful thriller compared to the first or third idea.