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Needle?

Serial killer/murderer who kills those who’ve caused his trauma (childhood trauma), with a sharp needle - motive

The needle is linked to his childhood - something his parents gave him as protection in his harsh neighborhood (engraved? Showing, not telling)

The needle is significant - protection, could be argued that it’s self defense

The needle weaves in and out his victim’s body as though he’s sowing- daily job is a tailor

Tailor by day, killer by night.

Influences:

- mainly Ma, 2019, which features a grown woman going after her high school classmates who constantly bullied her
- shutter island - the character is standing in the golden ratio - therefore not making us understand whether he’s an enemy or a friend
- gone girl - voiceover featured in a loving scene, but turns out to be something gruesome, there’s more to it than what the eyes can see.
- shows how a loving scene can end up in brutality and excessive violence

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The second film idea is based off of the psychological thriller. The idea comes from friends ideas and their feedback on my first idea.

For the second idea, they’ve decided to change the story from being a mentally-ill serial killer to a surgeon (prone to killing).

The surgeon is your typical surgeon by day, but is a devious serial killer by night. She always carry a scalpel in her pocket and the scalpel is in near reach - a quick grab from her pocket. The surgeon is hard to decipher, as her kills are clean and quick. She happens to operate on them as though they are a patient in surgery.

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Psychological thriller: The Needle

Serial killer/murderer who kills those closest to him with a sharp needle, which he sharpens each day, to make the kill deeper and more brutal than the last.

The needle goes in an out of their body, before he weaves it around their bodies - as though, he’s sewing.

The scene starts out with a tracking shot of a hallway, leading to his room, in which a tilt shot, tilts upwards to his pov, where he’s on his sewing machine/sewing using a needle and thread and it zooms in on the needle.
He kills in the dark and it cuts from him sewing to killing - different narratives

A voiceover/dialogue plays and it’s of the killer describing his victims, and it shows him sewing a small shirt that then fits onto his mannequins in his room (inspiration from silence of the lambs).

He’s framed according to the golden ratio, in which the audience don’t know whether he’s an enemy or a friend (pov of someone else - second character)

Classical music plays over his sewing and killing, as though they all flow in sequence (like an orchestra playing classical music)

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Psychological thriller: 2 min- credits through the opening scene (not afterwards)

1st character: unbeknownst character - Leith
2nd character: stalkers, serial killers or crime convicts
3rd character: ?

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Characters: psychological thriller
-  main character who’s been thrown into something
-  a dark figure approaches him
-  a scarily obscure vision

Characters: action thriller
- main/lead character is the hero of the story, who’s on the run to get this dangerous criminal but ends up being thrown into a whole different narrative.
- main character is the villain (supposed) of the story i.e. the dangerous criminal.

Characters: mystery thriller
(Taken from Shutter Island)
- main character faces the next character who isn’t either a enemy nor a friend - it’s for the audience to try and figure out before the character is shown.

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Incorporating:
- shutter island scene with second character
- Ma - the hit and kill scene, with a comedic scene playing out afterwards
- gone girl - soft, adorable reaction (developing an emotional response - hooking the audience) and a creepy, horrendous voiceover.

SHOW, DON’T TELL

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Ideas taken from Gone Girl:

https://youtu.be/wHukkX3oIrM

- creepy scene with soft dialogue and ominous music
- the scene features a man touching his wife’s hair, gently stroking it - this seems as though it’s a lovingly adorable couple, just doing normal things, but the dialogue changes everything. It makes the lovable scene creepy and scary, especially with the accompaniment of the ominous non-diegetic music in the background.

- the voiceover of the scene makes us realise there’s more to the eyes of what we can see.
- a creepy-like scene of a man’s hand touching a woman’s hair - who is his wife (revealed in the dialogue)

- I’d like to incorporate this in my film, to sort of show how a loving scene can end up in brutality and excessive violence.

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https://youtu.be/tBOZNOYMHEg

Ma, the infamous psychological thriller film features a murderer who just wants to relive her high school days.

This clip was both amusing and scary, as it plays on the comedic effect, after Ma does a hit and run on one of her old classmates.
It starts off with the murderer walking to her class before a flashback to her high school years is shown. The cut is quick but effective.
After the flashback is shown, Ma finds herself in a position to kill one of her old classmates, just as she’s running.
Ma slowly starts to drive faster and quickly swerves to her old classmate, before driving off and turning up the music on the radio - which just so happens to be a ‘happy and groovy’ song, that most people know of (September - Earth, Wind and Fire).

I’d like to incorporate this flip-genre, in which the thriller genre appears, shortly after, a comedic scene plays out. This is something that may draw in the audience to watch the film.

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Ma (2019) - Running Over the Past Scene (6/10) | Movieclips

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https://youtu.be/YqNvXArWqlw

The ending scene from Fractured shows the difference between insanity and reality - which is based off of the psychological thriller aspect.

Through editing, glitches are used to show the distorted vision of reality - which is completely fake. This is very effective as it shows the difference between reality and the main character’s version of events.

I intend on using this editing effect as well as using a distorted vision of reality to heighten the experience.

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Fractured _ (Netflix) _ 2019 _ movie ending scene

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https://youtu.be/pk4y7zz1z_c

This opening scene is from the new Red Notice film on netflix. This scene features an exhilarating chase scene, in which the camera stays on both narratives (the hero and the villain) and switches in between, whilst consistently staying on each character.

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Nolan Booth Steals The First Egg Scene | Opening Chase Scene | Red Notice (2021)

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https://youtu.be/iF95pJaGasE

Shutter Island goes into the more psychological aspects of thrillers.
In the opening scene, they use ominous music, alongside the setting.
The opening scene takes place on the sea and it first shows the main character and then the second character.

The second character (who we learn is his colleague) is shortly revealed afterwards. His character is standing in the golden ratio with his back facing the camera, thereby, not making us understand whether he’s an enemy or a friend.

This shot was really effectively and Leonardo Di Caprio’s character’s facial expressions upon seeing him, fits in beautifully.

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Opening - First Scene - Shutter Island (2010) - Movie Clip HD Scene

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https://youtu.be/rrnrRUTdGAQ

This scene features the high-speed chase scene typically seen in action-thrillers.

It goes from calm to chaotic within a short span of time, thereby showing the “action thriller” aspect.

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No Time to Die Exclusive Movie Clip - Chase Through Matera (2021) | Vudu

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The first film idea is based off of either mystery, action, or a psychological thriller.

Some of the movie ideas I’ve decided to steal are from the following:

- Shutter Island
- Inception
- Red Notice
- Fractured