Building a Thriller - Story

To make our Thriller effective and exciting we must look at what is achievable for 4 teenagers and the situations we can represent.
Thriller is a wide genre, so we have an advantage. I think that as teenagers we can best portray a crime, medical or supernatural thriller.
Location and the characters, two things I previously talked about, impact heavily on our scope for stories and narrative.
I would be most interested in doing a supernatural thriller, I think it will be easiest to achieve and look stylish and be effective. We could use our lack of professional camera equipment to our advantage, if we could effectively use shaky camera work, our production could be really interesting. Supernatural narratives usually incorporate a wide open space or a very small space so filming shouldn't be a problem.

I think a criminal drama would be easily achieved, we could take inspiration from the hundreds of stories in tabloids every week and adapt a convincing and thrilling story from elements of different stories. Each of our production crew lives in the city so we have locations we can use too.

This is the same for medical thrillers, there are constant horror stories in tabloids so inspiration should come easily. Location may be a big problem for a medical thriller but it doesn't have to happen in a hospital or doctors surgery. We would need to be smart to work out how this could be done.

As we are only doing the opening of a thriller film we have a slightly easier job, we do not need to think up a whole narrative with twists but we need to incorporate some elements of a whole thriller film so our opening is exciting and thrilling.

To prepare to start writing I will be picking up tabloids and looking at the stories. I will also start to make some ideas so we have something to do when we first go back. If the whole group brings ideas we should be in a good position to start working out our thriller.