Our Foundation Production Ideas

Our group have come up with three ideas for our Thriller opening. Our three best ideas are detailed below.

Thurlby Road

1) A disused road in Thurlby, Bourne, Lincolnshire. We have found a disused road in Thurlby which we think we could use for our Thriller production. We could have the protagonist driving down the road towards a barn, where the protagonist pulls up, gets out of the car, goes into the barn, looks around, finds a tramp that the protagonist kills. For the titles, we could put pieces of cardboard in the verge with the names and titles on as the protagonist is driving up, and then the camera could show a high angle shot looking down at the cardboard, which then pans to show the car moving. Pros: easy access to the site, and the road is next to some woodland allowing for flexibility. Cons: Perhaps idea is not very original, and would need some way of giving the plot a twist.

Bourne Cemetery

2) Bourne Cemetery, South Road, Bourne. We have requested permission from Bourne Town Council to film in the cemetery. We could show a scene of a group of mourners carrying a coffin along a footpath, and resting it on the ground as if they were going to bury it. This scene could then flashback to a shot of a person walking along a footpath at night, with someone coming from behind the person to kill them, showing the audience why the person is dead. Pros: an original idea, which perhaps has not been explored before. Cons: permission may not be granted from Bourne Town Council, and we would need a lot of actors.

Abandoned House on Morton Fen

3) An abandoned house on Morton Fen, Bourne. We have found a house that is abandoned approximately 3 miles out of the village of Morton in Lincolnshire. In a similar way to idea 1, we could have someone walking up the footpath, entering the property, looking around and finding someone in there, who could be killed or is perhaps already dead. Pros: Good site, perfect for a thriller movie with broken glass etc. Cons: we do not know who owns the property, so gaining permission could be difficult. It is also a long way from civilisation, so getting there could be difficult.


4) From James Craig: Basically, my idea involves the use of 'makeshift' railway tracks. I know the owner of branch brothers and he has offered to lend me anything that we need in creation of this movie. So it may be possible that we could use some long pieces of wood to create railway tracks and go along with the idea of a villain capturing their victim and the hero coming to save them. Obviously the idea of someone being tied to a railway track while a train is coming has been used before but with the addition of the silence and the music that we use, it could make this unique and special to anyone watching it. We could go out and film some trains going past and stuff and incorporate the titles into a fast-moving train window perhaps? Or say we could start the film with someone being captured and taken through some trees and we could carve the woods 'Starring etc..' into the wood? We could use cross-cutting to switch between scenes of a moving train, the woman being tied to the tracks and the hero.