Relation to Themes & Conventions

Our initial idea indicates that the main themes will be psychological, here we will explain why and how they relate to specific thriller conventions found here and here.

Firstly, it might not seem so but the narrative/character backstory is actually quite complex. The kidnapper will probably have quite a complex mental condition which has caused him to start kidnapping these people, and also the reason for the revenge he possibly seeks. The title of the film will indicate the genre and topic, this could be through the name of a mental condition. This was earlier used in the film Vertigo.

Next we have the common use of mirroring through the illusion of the kidnapper appearing and then disappearing, which causes uncertainty for the audience - another convention.

Voyeurism is another very obvious convention which we will use in our sequence, the audience will watch the students as they are kidnapped. We will see both through there eyes, through the narrator/kidnappers eyes, and also as an onlooker giving a three dimension feel to the sequence.

Typical of a psychological thriller we will use the idea of flashbacks, the complication of whether the events are reality of a dream, and the main character having a fascination with death - as the kidnapper may have the medical condition of Cotard Syndrome where he believes that he's dead.