The ideas.

Idea 1

This idea is mainly based on obsession, along with lust.

Lauren is an ordinary teenage girl (17/18 years of age) who goes to College and lives the normal life of a teenager. She is popular, beautiful, and envied by quite a lot of people. As to her high status, she believes in the whole college statuses, as to who is popular and who isn't and who can talk and sit with who. She is obviously proud of her status as she and her possy (The Untouchables) are very popular.

At the bottom of the hierarchy there is Karl. He is a stereotypical geek who has been head over heels about Lauren since they were 4 years of age, since their primary school days. We see flashbacks of the two of them from the beginning.

Lauren has never actually payed any attention to Karl so he hasn't really had the chance to confess about his feelings for her but after nearly 14 years of thinking about she'd react towards him, he finds the courage to address himself to her.

When he expresses his feelings for her, she responds by saying "Aaaaw Karl that is so.." then pauses for a minute making it even worse for Karl to hear what she is finally going to say. She finally finishes the sentence with "so.. pathetic!" Karl's face drops and he seems devastated.

She then goes back to her friends and informs them of what just happened. They all turn to look at him and laugh which makes him even more embarrassed and ashamed of himself. He felt so heartbroken and useless.

He also got very angry - a bit too angry for his own good. It's like he transformed into being a geeky little schoolboy who sits at the front of his class making notes on every word the teacher says, to this violent, red-faced vicious boy.

He plots his revenge on Lauren as to her rejecting him. He feels if he cannot have her, nobody can.

Idea 2.

This idea is mainly based on revenge.

Junior Kanes, a teenager of 18 years, vowed to himself that he would not get caught up in his families antics - enemies, drugs, hatred, murder etc.

He was a sensible boy, with everything going pretty well for him in life - a girlfriend, good grades in College, a family who loved him etc.

One night his mother had gone for a girl's night out with her friends but didn't come back home. She had been murdered. The immediate suspects were the Kanes' family rivals. Junior knew that it was time to avenge regards his mothers murder.

He becomes serious about having the killers of his mother dealt with. He wants to destroy every member of the rival gang and deal with them in a nasty way - causing pain for them. He becomes engrossed in doing this until he finds out all of that was a complete misunderstanding - he had suspected the wrong people! He finds out that it was his own blood uncle that had killed his mother!

Idea 3.

This idea is mainly about a girl having seriously disturbing nightmares.

It may have the impact of being a rom-com as the story line is based on lust and affection as well as it being a thriller.

Jennifer Gray suffered child abuse which got her shook for the rest of her life which resulted to her being sectioned when she was 18 years of age. She was kept in Jacob's Asylum. She had been so traumatised by her past that even when she was sleeping, she felt unsafe. She thought someone would try to kill her whilst she was sleeping but even worse - she even saw that in her dreams!

She had been deprived of having family and friends. The only person that she was close to and she could trust was her psychiatrist - Joel. It was like he understood her feelings, and knew how she felt. He treated her as if she were normal and respected her - not like the other men did in her taunting past. He was the only one that was there for her and who she could turn to. She also started to develop feelings for him but she knew that nothing could happen between them as he was in a relationship with a woman named Brenda, although she was more upper-classed and more up herself than he was.

Jennifer didn't really see the point in being alive and just wanted to give up on everything so she asked Joel to kill her but evidently, he refused.

After this, Joel and her begin to fall for each other but Joel has to break it to her that he is with Brenda. Jennifer envies Brenda and thinks of ways to break out of the asylum. She finally breaks out and attempts to murder Brenda. She wants her out of the way to keep Joel all to herself.

She does not know how she is going to kill Brenda but if she doesn't succeed in doing so, she makes a plot to kill Joel and herself, for them to sleep together, in peace, forever.

Idea 4.

This idea is mainly on revenge.

Luke is a boy who suffers from Schizophrenia. His behaviour is split, and he has different thoughts and delusions. His mind isn't mentally right. He thinks of things that isn't particularly clean and nice either. He's always had a problem of not being 'normal'.

After getting bullied by his peers at school, Luke had a panic attack and freaked out after the bullies took it too far.

In the canteen, Ross the main bully stole Lukes medication for his Schizophrenia (called Orap) which he needed in order for him not to go out of control. In front of everybody, Ross had accused him of being a 'freaky insane dumb-ass of the college'. This easily got Luke into an anger mode and very hurt.

Luke then planned revenge on the bullies that had made him lose his self-confidence and esteem. Luke's sufferance from Schizophrenia makes his quest of revenge more straining and mentally mind-boggling as to a normal doing it.

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Codes & Conventions

Thrillers
Thrillers are characterized by frequent action, fast-pace, and sometimes heroes and villains. It also has various sub-genres.

There are mainly heroes and villains in most thrillers. Traditionally, the villain drives a plot and the hero must overcome this issue. The story usually has a lot of mystery in it to create the suspense and dilemmas. They also have cliffhangers in it.

Thrillers are all about thrilling people more than scaring them. Horrors are easily mistaken for thrillers as they are quite similar - they both have the same kind of story lines. Thrillers have more suspension in there sounds and suspension at the beginning of the film so you can tell what genre the film is from the beginning. They tend to be more spooky and screechy.

Ten most popular thrillers of all time.

Basic Instinct (1992) about Douglas’ cop falling for Sharon Stone’s man-killer dominatrix author.

The Big Sleep (1946) was the film in which Bogie fell for Bacall: the chemistry between the two is almost incendiary.
Casino Royale (2006) Debut for Daniel Craig as 007. Gadgets, the tireless bed-hopping, the excessive stunts.

Fargo (1995) Kidnapping gone wrong, an unhappy marriage and a wealthy businessman who refuses to pay a ransom. Set during a Minnesota winter.

Get Carter (1971) Gritty thriller meets Greek tragedy. London-based gangster travelling to Newcastle to get payback for his brother’s death. With the violence as unglamorous as a pub brawl and a mood as bleak as Tyneside winter, it’s one of the nastiest and most honest films about revenge ever made.

Jackie Brown (1997) Absorbing tale of an middle-aged air hostess outfoxing a shrewd gunrunner over a stash of money. The intricate plot is a model of machine-crafted precision, but the leisurely pace allows for some rich characterisation and some soulful reflections on ageing.
LA Confidential (1997) A scabrous attack on Hollywood’s blind devotion to the culture of celebrity. So it’s a minor miracle that a big studio should ever have financed this sprawling, densely plotted tale of police corruption, shady movie stars and tabloid journalists in the first place. The greater miracle is that Ellroy’s vision was preserved in all its gloomy brilliance by Curtis Hanson’s sharp direction and fearless performances from a first-rate cast.
Le Samourai (1967)A major influence on US cinema’s crime wave in the ‘70s.A hit man is a stone-cold classic violence. The film combines the tough-guy cynicism of film noir and crisp Parisian cool – with an added dash of Eastern mysticism.

Memento (2000) A tale of a amnesiac victim of crime attempting to solve the case. Disassembling the constituent parts of the thriller, Nolan pieced them back together to use the genre to probe the nature of identity. A profound, perplexing puzzle-piece of a film.

The Usual Suspects (1995) Revolving around five professional thieves brought together for a police line-up is played like one long, expertly deployed con trick, pulling the rug from under us so many times we’re left reeling. An unspoken law of omerta forbids viewers of the film from revealing the movie’s glorious final twist.

Here's some expected codes and conventions to be in thrillers:

Sound and editing : Involves several different camera angles and quick snaps and changes between shots. Music tends to be full of tension and has a racey sound to go with the action etc.

Lighting - Shadow, mirrors and stairs are mostly used.

Narrative - Normally shown from different characters points of view. Not just one persons view. Normally it is made out so the audience has empathy for one of the characters.

Setting - According to what the story line is based on. Not a particular setting-base.

Mise-en-scene - Dim/dark lighting, (illegal) weapons for props. Camera shots are normally close ups or normal shots. Quite a lot of camera movement.

Sub-genres of thrillers:

Conspiracy thriller is a sub-genre with a secret. Usually the hero becomes a threat to the conspirators, and must escape their response. An example is the novel'The Chancellor Manuscript.'

Ecothriller tales, involve some threat to the environment, either globally or locally. The Green Rain is an example. Michael Crichton's novel State of Fear became a best-seller.

Legal thriller often includes legal figures like lawyers who put their lives at stake in order to solve the mystery. It mostly takes place around the courthouse/room. An example is 'The Firm'.

Medical thriller often involves medical people such as doctors. They have their own lives at risk again, either by a mysterious disease being broken out, or their life is threatened by a patient etc. An example is 'Death on Call'.

Psychological thriller build up slowly until the action/violence takes place later on. It normally is on emotional or mental conflict between the characters. The conflicts may not even be possible in real life. For example 'The ring' is not something that would happen.

Religious thrillers usually have an artifact or historic secret that centres up the plot.

'The DaVinci Code' is an example of this.

Action thrillers usually involve violence, aggression etc. It includes weapons and guns, explosions etc. An example would be 'The Bourne Identity' & its following films.

The Pitch

We had to make a presentation of The Pitch in front of the class, telling them what our main story line and what the opening sequence was going to be about. It was about and about the other ideas in brief detail. We also explained what the characters will be like. We also shared some statistical research we had done. We then got feedback from the class and answered the questions.
Overall, I think it went well and figured that our peers found it interesting.