After visiting BFI Southbank this week, my group and I decided that we need to re-think how we want to film, plan and portray our psychological thriller. We decided to stick to the idea of a female protagonist having paranoia due to being mugged, but personally I think it'd be better to focus on the effect of the event rather than the cause; that way it'd be easier for the audience to understand that it's a psychological thriller and it would link more to paranoia.
If we used the whole two minutes for our opening sequence to explain the character is scared of getting attacked, gets attacked and then realises it was all a dream, that'd be extremely cliche and basic. At BFI Southbank, one of the speakers listed the most common student thriller openings and we realised that we had already used three of those cliches. So, we decided to change a few things to make our thriller film more interesting.
We're still planning to include the mugging scene in our thriller opening, but use it in the form of brief flashbacks during the protagonist's day to day life. Hopefully, this cross-over from hyper-reality to the everyday will make the paranoia more apparent and throw the audience off course. I think it'd be better for our thriller film to take some ideas and influences from the film "Premonition" because it uses ideas of discontinuity in terms of reality and being in a dream state. Another adjustment that I think would be effective with our thriller opening would be the usage of foley - having a loud sound of a clock ticking to create a tense and tedious atmosphere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLsiGGF9DPc
This thriller opening i saw was very helpful and could heavily influence our own opening. This film focuses on the dream state and hyper-reality which is what our group is trying to achieve. We'll take ideas and influences from this film like the change-over from reality to manifestation.
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