Mid-planning crisis...

Orignially, our idea was a kindnap. However, our group attempted, persisted, failed, and abandoned our idea on the kidnap. Although all of our planning into thriller, genre, etc will still remain relevant and applicable, there were several limitations that prevented our idea from going ahead as smoothly as planned.

It is unlikely everything was going to go to plan, as we established, but additional problems such as shooting, location, plot and how our editing will be able to work convincingly. We decided, as a team, that it was time to abandon ship and put our heads together.

I thought about how we wanted our film to give the audience the 'thrill' that comes inevitably with a thriller and we agreed it would be hard to create this with our idea. I  thought about different dramatic situations that would create a good film. I thought the idea a burglary would be tense, interesting, and create that 'thrill.'

Changing our idea meant we can control factors like permission to film, access and lighting easily. We have a more flexible shooting time as well.

I thought about real life scenarios, which thrillers often are, an then obviously exaggerated, put the ideas to the group. We narrowed our ideas down to things like parties gone wrong, which we had seen several films of before, chases through woods from daunting characters, abandoned houses and creepy carparks, and decided a burglary would be a good direction to progress in. We could use our houses, control camera effects like I said, and could be creative with it in ways of editing and shots.