Pitched Ideas

When pitching our ideas, the whole class had to take it in turns to describe our ideas as simply as possible so that the class could comprehend them and make an informed decision.

Of the ideas pitched, my favourites were Leo's, Brett's, and Hermione's (which is the one i will be working on).

Leo's idea was set in a large house and based inside a young boy's bedroom at night. He looks at his watch and it is as if he is waiting for something, 3Am approaches and as it does there is a montage of the boys face, his watch ticking and a grandfather clock pendulum, the tension builds with the music and at 3am a young girl's ghost is seen sitting on a rocking chair playing with the boy's toys. He cowers under his duvet, his last protection and all goes quiet so that we think the girl has gone, he looks up and there she is, lying in bed with him, perhaps she says something scarily innocent like ''I like your teddy bear.'' And then fade to black, and the title comes up.

Brett's idea was very different to Leo's, it is set in Victorian times and filmed in black and white, it is based on the story of Jack the Ripper and the camera shows a prostitute on a street, then there is the montage of seeing him in a room with millions of photographs of her and other victims and then ways in which to kill them, then back to the real view of the two of them talking on the street without ever seeing his face, and continuing back and forth until eventually, he takes her down the street and brutally murders her.

The last idea i voted for was Hermione's which was slightly more quirky and psychological to begin with and more up to the audiences imagination because it didn't really have a fixed story line. It was to begin with three people, each a different race, waking up in different bedrooms and then walking outside only to realise that they were trapped in some kind of labyrinth of opposite colour to them, for example, a black man in a white corridor. They then begin to walk around the labyrinth opening doors, banging into walls and all the while, being watched by us, the voyeurs. Her idea didn't really have an ending to it but it got me thinking about it, and now that i am in the group working on her idea with her, we have changed it and made it a little more finished and tightened. :)

Even though i hav'nt mentioned all the idea's i think most of them were very good and almost all could have been made into plausible thrillers.