The First Time the Group Teams Up

So as of now, my group and i don't have much yet... We had a debate on whose idea we should pick. We all had great ideas but we haven't really decided a winner. In the middle of the week my group and I brainstormed during class and were stuck between 2/4 ideas.

My idea was that we make a suspenseful thriller about a couple. The the female of the couple is secretly in a Mafia. The scene would start out from a bystanders point of view (point of view shot) looking into a coffee shop. In the coffee shop we see the couple and u can tell that something is not right. The female finally breaks up with the guy and the guy leaves the coffee shop crying. It cups to an extreme close up of his eyes and you can tell that he's lost some sleep over his ex. His apartment is hot boxed and we can tell it's the day after the breakup because he gets up out of bed and proceeds to cook breakfast. While he cooks breakfast we see the credits on the eggs. Theres a knock on the door and he goes to answer it. when he answers it two men put a bag on his head and we see darkness. this is where the scene ends.

I really like this idea because its not a cliché topic that is usually shown on film. It brings the audience in and makes them want to see more without it being a horror movie.

Although I personally didn't want to go down the horror film path, my group member, Harrison, came up with a fantastic horror film.

Harrison's idea is that the scene starts out as a mid-shot of a group of teenagers sitting on the couch watching a movie but are distracted on their phones. One of the girls.... lets call her "Jenny",  gets up for a glass of water but the camera stays on the mid-shot of the group and we hear what is assumed as a glass drop on the ground. One of the guys says "you ok,  Jenny?" and she responds with "yes, I'm fine" we see Jenny walk back to the couch and sit down. One of the girl asks "what happened in there, Jenny?" while still looking down at her phone. We hear no response, and then the same girl goes "Jenny?" we see a close up of a grown man in jenny clothes with a mask sitting in her spot and all the kids freak out. All the kids run to the door to get out but the same man is there waiting for them. We see an extreme close up of the man pull out a knife and it is assumed he kills the teenagers. The scene cuts the a crime scene the next day in the house we find out all the teenagers died and that its the serial killers 5th killing this month.

This idea is a safer way to go because suspenseful horror films are good films to draw an audience in. I can see myself and my group having a lot of success with this film. Hopefully we'll make up our minds soon!