Idea no.

1
Action, thriller genre. Man gets kidnapped by an undercover agency for interrogation
purposes after being chased. His is handcuffed/tied to a chair and placed in a dark room on
his own. He is visited by men dressed in all black and spoken to, after denying answers he is
beaten in the chair and then forced to eat a pill. He then experiences hallucinations before
passing out. He then wakes up in a parallel dream like place.
Binary Opposites: Dream/reality. Good/Bad.
Characters:
Hero - the man that gets kidnapped is the protagonist the target for the villains plans to get
information about a secret.
Villain(s) - the undercover agency is what targets him for having important information and
injures him
Narrative functions:
4 - The Villain appears - the undercover agency turns up to the location where the man is.
5 - the villain gains information about the victim/hero - they receive a mission to find the man
and hunt him down.
12 - Hero is tested, interrogated, attacked etc. - the agency hunts him down and kidnaps him
to bring him in for interrogation and then get drugged.
21 - Hero is pursued - During when he is being chased.
Mise en scene:
Props - handcuffs, chair, fake blood, fake pills.
Settings - dark basement like area, or a garage. Alleyways and dark streets.
Costumes - agency have all black suits with black sunglasses and the guy has casual
clothing.
Lighting - low key lighting for a lot of the scenes, only some high key lighting in the areas
outside or before he is being chased.
Potential issues:
-finding suitable locations to film and to film frequently. It may be hard to find a decent
basement or someone's garage that would be able to seem like a dark hide out.
-finding a safe substitute for the pill that the guy takes, in order to prevent any danger to the
actors. (Could may be a sweet rather than a real drug so that if we have to repeat the scene
again and again we don't have to worry about the actor overdosing or becoming ill.)

Idea no.2

Comedy, murder mystery. Top notch detective gets sent out onto a murder case. He
examines the body and comes up with false ideas, (i.e the body was stabbed and he will say
they were poisoned). He ignores the sure signs of the killer and suspects innocent people for
doing the murder, including the victim's child. He argues with other police officers on how the
crime was done. He sends the wrong person to jail and ends up getting killed himself by the
real killer.
Binary Opposites: life/death, good/bad.
Characters:
- Hero is the detective because he is trying to save the day and solve the case
for the murder.
- Villain is the murderer that gets away with his plans.
- Donor(s) are the other detectives in the police department offering help to the
idiot detective to help solve the case.
Narrative functions:
2 - An interdiction is directed towards the hero - the police tell the detective that what he is
thinking is wrong and they are pointing out the obvious clues.
3 - The hero ignores the interdiction. - the detective follows through with his ideas and goes
off on a tangent to find the false killer.
6 - the villain attempts to deceive the victim/hero - the villain tricks the hero into thinking that
another person did the crime it was obviously him.
23 - hero is unrecognised - he does not solve the case and becomes ignored by the rest of
the police.
28 -False hero or villain is exposed - The villain then reveals themselves and attacks the
detective at the end of the film. Hero loses.
Mise en scene:
Props: Crime scene tape, fake blood, fake knife, white chalk.
Setting: alleyway, offices.
Costumes: detective clothing, long coats and suits. Casual clothing for the killer with obvious
blood stains on them.
Lighting: low key lighting for the scenes where the crime scene is.
Potential issues:
- Finding a suitable location to film where the crime scene would be, maybe
somewhere more derelict and less chance of being seen by the public that may get
the wrong idea.
- Finding some of the props might be hard to find as well as actors and
costumes.

Idea no. 3
Shattered.

Horror? Romance. Tragedy. A man watches his wife through a mirror in the afterlife.
Watching as she tells the mirror her problems and how sad she is on her own. She tells the
mirror about her day and how she is finding new love. The man in the mirror grows angry at
this and starts creating problems in her home, moving items and leaving messages written in
red on the mirror. He then starts following her in her outside life through any and all mirrors
and leaving messages to her in public and even at her work place. He then starts leaving
darker messages to his wife everywhere he went, this pushed her to becoming paranoid and
depressed and eventually having a gun to her lips. He only grins as he watches from his side
of the mirror. Film ends with a gunshot and the man saying Welcome back, my dearest.
Binary Opposites: life/death, love/hate.
Characters:
-The dead man in the mirror (JIM)is the false hero or villain because he starts off as a gentle
person and friends with his wife before he starts to turn against her and bring her to death.
-The wife/girlfriend (LORI) would be a heroine, as she would be vulnerable and a target for
the man to attack her because she was his wife/girlfriend and so there was an emotional
connection.
-The new boyfriend (DAN)would be the hero despite not being the protagonist because eh
would be trying to help save the heroine from the danger that her ex was putting her through.
Narrative functions:
1 - A member of the family leaves home - this applies as the man dies and leaves the
woman on her own.
8 - Villain causes harm/injury to family - this applies as the man causes verbal abuse to his
living girlfriend and causing harm to her new boyfriend as well.
16 - Hero and villain join in direct contact - this applies as the dead man attacks the new
boyfriend, despite one being dead and the other alive.
17 - Hero is branded - This applies as the dead man attacks him out of anger because he is
taking his girlfriend.
28 - false hero or villain is exposed - this applies as near the end of the film the dead man
will admit that it is him doing everything to his wife and brings her to death to join him.
Mise en scene:
Props - Mirrors, red paint, gun.
Settings - Bedrooms, white room, public areas such as restaurants, shopping malls and
bathrooms both public and private. (Anywhere where there is a mirror.)
Costumes - Normal everyday clothing for the alive couple, all black clothing for the dead
man to contrast in the all white room he is stuck in.
Make up - For the alive couple there should more a brightened look on them to show that
theyre alive and full of life, contrasting it with the shallow darker shading of the dead man's
face tos how him being dead.
Lighting - High key lighting for when the dead man is on his own in the all white room to
show that he is in the afterlife and that everything around him is pure. Contrasted against the
low key lighting that can be seen whenever the woman is one her own and in her bedroom
or in the bathroom (or when she is near a mirror) to show how the real work is dark and
tainted.

Potential issues:
-Finding an all white room to film in would be difficult to find and use to film because there
are rarely any rooms of all white. We may have to change the all white room to something
that similarly shows purity.
- Filming with mirrors, there is a difficulty to film with mirrors because we cant risk having the
camera shown in the reflection, we may have to find a way to record at different angles to
record the woman talking to the mirror without including the mirror entirely.
-getting a hold of some of the props may be difficult to find, for example, the gun may be
hard to find one that looks realistic enough to fool the audience and not look overly fake.