Product Ideas (Pre-feedback)

ATLAS media arranged a meeting within our media studies lesson, in which we created a list of idea's around the ideas of thrillers. We watched all of the Youtube video examples, in order to gaze thriller conventions although strict original ideas were only used. Below, I have added the range of conventions that we are planning to challenge and use along with our pre-peer feedback. I have also listed the pro's and con's from the ideas that we as a group brought up. From a large list we selected a few ideas in which we will again come together to work on the idea and present to our media group.

Sub-Genre's

• Mystery
• Conspiracy
• Supernatural

Conventions being 'Used'

• Crowds of people
• Good Teacher/Bad Teacher
• Brainwashing
• Physco people
• Day and Night Scene's
• Uniformed Personnel (Suits, School Uniform)
• Cliffhanger

Conventions being 'Developed'

• Schizophrenc
• Tension building - slow editing and music
• Camera work - Panning

Conventions being 'Challenged'

• Teacher's personalitity changing to bad
• Children split personalitity
• Challenge school - Nice and safe enviroment - Evil
• Using the school bell for bad convention
• A Female being Captured

Creative Idea's
Skitsco police;
This was a good idea and although being very challenging to convey the idea of the police officer.We have the issue of Uniform and costume. It would be hard to create a police officer, without a resembled costume.

Mental Homeless;
This would be a good idea and possible achievable if we had further time in shooting although it would be also hard to show the 'Homeless' effect with a lack of costume and budget.

School Training kids (Brainwashing);
If we were to use this idea, we would already have a location available by using school. Although using teachers and students, possible acting and availability issues may occur.

Hanging;
If we were to reproduce a hanging, it would take a long time to produce and we only have a short shooting and editing time. Plus this idea has already been used in another media students work from our school.

Music & Lighting to Hypnotize;
This creative idea would use several conventions and we could use previous professional films to see how they produce the hypnotized effect. With the short time we have to shoot and edit, creating the effect would be very hard to create and a large amount of camera work would be required.

School bell usage;
This idea could be challenged or incorporated into our film as we could record our school bell ringing or possibly over dub the school bell by using a preset sound. If we were to use the school bell, it only rings once an hour.

Night and Day Scene's;
If we were to shoot using night and day scene's we could use or challenge the conventions although we have the issue of not being able to shoot around the school premises unless a member of staff is around.