Planning: Initial Ideas (Miss Begum)

Initial Ideas

Many ideas have been presented during my groups discussion of the initial ideas. We discussed Carlie's, Emine's and my idea for our thriller. 

IDEA 1: Carlie

• Narrative: Girl being interviewed by the police because she killed both of her parents. 
• Title: Alone
• Sub-genre: Crime
• Characters: 2 police officers, teenage girl, parents dead on the floor. 
• Narrative structure: Todorov, Aristotle
• MES: White room (police station) Bedroom. 

An advantage of this idea is that the story line is conventional to a thriller. The sub-genre matches mine and Emine's. The settings can be easily located for example, police stations white room could be in a bedroom instead. A disadvantage of this idea is that there is no highest point of conflict which needs to be discovered.

IDEA 2: Emine

• Narrative: A young girl who loses her way in life and ends up spiritually possessed. 
• Title: The red flag 
• Sub-genre: Psychological/Crime 
• Characters: Female victim, children, crazy man, police. 
• Narrative structure: Aristotle
• MES: Urban setting, city, flashing lights, dark, leather clothing. 

An advantage of this idea is that the story line is conventional to a thriller. MES is quite easy to access. However, a disadvantage, it might be difficult to express a possessed person.

IDEA 3: My Idea

• Narrative: Crime scene, someones dead, eye witness can't explain what they saw. Or, the killer has schizophrenia and controls his life. 
• Title: The Unknown
• Sub-genre: Psychological/Crime
• Characters: Nurses, police, victim, female antagonist, no protagonist.
• Narrative structure: Todorov, following the structure. Aristotle, importance of plot, arouse/provoke emotion within tragedy. 
• MES: Forest, abandoned places, dark places. Low-key lighting, back lighting. Blood, knifes, tools, walky talkies, police sirens. 

An advantage of this idea is that schizophrenia and death are conventional to a thriller. Setting may be easy to access however, lighting may be harder. A disadvantage is that schizophrenia is a hard and sensitive topic and might not be portrayed accurate enough.

Conclusion:

This discussion has been beneficial as we have learned all our ideas and discovered a way to put them together. We were able to create a new story joining all of our stories together and deciding which parts should be kept or not.