Thriller Sequence Initial Idea and Presentation

The idea that I chose to present was the one with the razor blade. A brief synopsis of this idea is based around a middle aged man. He wakes up in his very average apartment and he goes over to the mirror in his room to shave. He takes out his cutthroat razor and begins to shave as he is shaving, there is a big emphasis on the sound as it is the one building the tension. It begins off playing a rather happy song, a little bit contrapuntal to the scene but as the scene progress the music becomes distorted and sharp, building tension for the rest of the scene. After the man finishes shaving he pierces his own skin with the razor to make sure it is sharp enough and the camera focuses on his reflection on in the mirror then focuses out and on the to the background, still through the reflection of the mirror, and the audience can see a man or woman tied up behind him. You can see the body bloody and almost passed out, the body stirs for a moment realizes that the man is awake. They then being to wriggle around in the restrains and there is muffled screaming heard from the mouth as it is covered up by a cloth. The camera then refocuses on the man face in the reflection, the man then sadistically smiles and turns his back to the mirror and walks towards the person, razor in hand. There is then a black out.

Presenting to the class and having the class present to us was really helpful to develop my idea further and in addition to that I was able to think of new ideas or variations of ideas. Firstly, presenting to the class helped me because of the feedback that they gave me ideas that I could have included within my idea. For example, they said that I could have more of a tension build up in my idea. They also said that they liked how much I took into account sound and how simple yet effective my idea was. As well as this, hearing the class present their ideas was really good as well. It gave me an overall perspective of what the general idea was and I was able to see a clearer picture of who I could see myself working with in the group because of the similarity in our ideas. There were aspects of my classmates ideas that I could see in my idea or a different way to progress my own idea with a combination of someone else’s idea.