Choosing The Group Idea And Our First Production Group Meeting

After everyone had presented their thriller proposals to the class we all voted on our top three ideas. Our teacher then went about giving each group the one that had most votes from within the group. In our case, it was my idea (as described in the previous post).

In our first production meeting as a whole group we looked at the narrative that I had presented to the class in my presentation. We went through step by step changing and updating the storyline so that it both made more sense and the sequence ran together in a fluid and flowing way. We had to develop the idea to make it as visually effective and scary as possible. We managed this by getting rid of the baby listener sequence as for the woman not to hear the baby listener she would have to have the TV on really loud, and she wouldn't do that if she had just put the child to sleep. So The narrative of the updated storyline is:

A women putting her child to bed and mum turning on the night light (see the night light go on from outside.) Women coming down the stairs and into the living room. Women watching the TV. Audience see a man entering through window. Goes up the stairs and lots of quick cross cuts of man entering child’s room and taking it. Women unaware of anything as watching TV. Audience sees man leaving carrying something. The women has had enough of flicking through channels so turns the TV off hears a car door shut and sees some car lights leaving. Goes to investigate and finds front door open. Sees a bundle down the path. Opens it up and finds toy/tape playing creepy innocent child music. Cut away of child’s empty bed. She then looks up at house, child bedroom light off and ground floor window open with curtain blowing in the wind.