Initial Narrative Ideas

The inspiration for our film has come from the well-known University in Cambridge. We have taken advantage of this historical area which will cause a large audience to recognize the location, and therefore relate to the film. The main characters in the film are in fact University students.

Here is the initial narrative for our thriller, it is likely to change slightly as we progress through the project and our ideas will develop. The film would start with one student walking through a park alone, the shots will focus on his nervousness, and unease in this park as we hear him heavily breathing and frantically looking around. This is actually the end of the film, and the film will begin as a elliptical narrative where the kidnapper has a flashback to how the kidnapping of the students began.

The students were just walking through the park, at night, after being at the University. They are talking about something they had heard in a lecture, or something else.  As they are walking through the park they see a 'shady' man sitting on a bench, they quickly walk past but as they look back to the path one of them has gone. They immediately think that the man on the bench has taken him, but they look back and find he's not there. The next shots will see the illusion of the man seen in lots of different places across the park, and we may even heard a voiceover of him. For our two minute sequence this is all we would need.

If the sequence was continued into a film, another student would be picked off, and then another, eventually leaving just one. The film would be following these students, and would show their live at the University as they find that their friends have been kidnapped. An idea is that the remaining students that walked down through the park think that they are more prepared than the previous night, with more protection or going a different way - but their not. It's possible that the kidnapper is getting revenge on the last student who we see at the beginning of the film, before the flashback.

Our idea of kidnap relates back to the earlier thriller that we analysed, Fargo, which has a kidnap event.