Okay, so first we started our group discussion in class, not unlike our previous team brainstorming-sessions. We put our desks together and, knowing we wanted to come up with a plot for a thriller film, discussed different types of thrillers we could produce. We began with the idea of creating a scientific fiction (sci-fi) thriller and searched up conventions of sci-fi thrillers, along with some examples we might know of or use to gain inspiration from. We then considered more specific elements that could potentially be part of our plot. We took into consideration having a specific color appear in every shot we filmed. Choosing the color would occur later on in the development of our plot and require research about what each color can represent, as to make it symbolic and meaningful. My group also wanted to keep the idea I discussed in my previous blog, where a man dives into a pool surrounded by his friends and emerges in the middle of the ocean completely isolated. We considered incorporating a parallel-universe or a world of a different dimension in this one particular plot. We strayed from this idea, and started to consider the idea of a brain washing that would somehow connect to the man's newly found isolation. We didn't think it tied into the type of sci-thriller we were hoping to create, and instead contemplated the idea of hypnosis, researching more about it. We discovered that hypnosis is "the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction." We thought we could take this idea that makes someone more susceptible to suggestion and fuse it with the "man emerging isolated" idea.
The idea we formulated was that a man would be hypnotized without his knowledge by a governmental official (or government employee). His trigger would be water, which would explain why when he dove into the pool, he came up for breath in a different "realm," when he's really just in a sleep-like state induced by the hypnosis. The government is hypnotizing random people and is being alerted of when the subjects activate their subconscious, or state brought about by the hypnosis. Their purpose behind it is to assign certain difficult tasks to the subjects, the main character's task is still unknown, and observe their progress and see if they can achieve it, which would return them to reality. The few that can accomplish their assigned tasks are different from the rest since they can activate the other side of their brain most humans don't use, which is the only way one can succeed in the task. Those who can activate the other region of their brain are revealed to the government who is recruiting them so that they can complete a task for them (which is, as of now, still unknown). The main plot of the film would consist of the main character discovering what his task is, trying to complete it so that he can return, while also finding out what the government is planning and is hoping to accomplish with this information.
While we have the plot for the whole film, we still have to do more research on it so that we can grasp a better understanding of our topic and discuss how we are going to plan and shoot the intro of this film to make it so that the audience is intrigued. I'm glad we at least finally have a concrete idea of what we want to do with our film (though the plot is most likely to still be edited) and of what direction we want to move towards.
Now it's back to the planning board for my team so that we can plan the intro for this film in the hopes of starting filming this weekend. More information about our plot and development of our intro is soon to be revealed, as we ourselves uncover it, so stay tuned! We won't disappoint, scouts honor.
--Blogger Buitano
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The idea we formulated was that a man would be hypnotized without his knowledge by a governmental official (or government employee). His trigger would be water, which would explain why when he dove into the pool, he came up for breath in a different "realm," when he's really just in a sleep-like state induced by the hypnosis. The government is hypnotizing random people and is being alerted of when the subjects activate their subconscious, or state brought about by the hypnosis. Their purpose behind it is to assign certain difficult tasks to the subjects, the main character's task is still unknown, and observe their progress and see if they can achieve it, which would return them to reality. The few that can accomplish their assigned tasks are different from the rest since they can activate the other side of their brain most humans don't use, which is the only way one can succeed in the task. Those who can activate the other region of their brain are revealed to the government who is recruiting them so that they can complete a task for them (which is, as of now, still unknown). The main plot of the film would consist of the main character discovering what his task is, trying to complete it so that he can return, while also finding out what the government is planning and is hoping to accomplish with this information.
While we have the plot for the whole film, we still have to do more research on it so that we can grasp a better understanding of our topic and discuss how we are going to plan and shoot the intro of this film to make it so that the audience is intrigued. I'm glad we at least finally have a concrete idea of what we want to do with our film (though the plot is most likely to still be edited) and of what direction we want to move towards.
Now it's back to the planning board for my team so that we can plan the intro for this film in the hopes of starting filming this weekend. More information about our plot and development of our intro is soon to be revealed, as we ourselves uncover it, so stay tuned! We won't disappoint, scouts honor.
--Blogger Buitano
NathanR10 Follow. "Genre Conventions of Sci-Fi Thriller." LinkedIn SlideShare. N.p., 23 Oct. 2014. Web. 14 Mar. 2017.
Unknown. "What Is Hypnosis?" North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2017.
Unknown. "Hypnosis - Google Search." Hypnosis - Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2017
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