Some Ideas:
- Mental institute patient
- Either subtle with bandages and normal clothes
- or an obvious mental patient in white gown and hospital wrist band
- setting :dark forest or rural setting, early in morning/late at night
- Running away from something, unknown to what they're running from
- Hand held camera work to make the audience feel more involved eg:- Blair witch project
We'll have some more ideas up soon!!
Would be nice to hear what you think, feel free to comment us =]
Much love Emma And Haz xxx
2 comments:
I'm loving the mental patient idea, but be careful with the running away from something unseen in a dark forest as this is, perhaps, a bit of a cliche and can sometimes come too close to horror as a genre than thriller. What does your mental patient suffer from? Why is he/she there? How do we know? Find some more films with a similar narrative/tone/style and see how these directors treat the subject...
Wise words indeed Mrs B...running through the woods can be done to death! Speaking of mental patients - Have you guys seen Twelve Monkeys? Directed by Terry Gilliam (he of Monty Python fame); quite an intersting little drama/sci-fi/triller with Bruce Willis in the lead (but don't let that put you off) - worth a look. Another with a mental patient sub-theme is The Butterfly Effect - much more conventional Hollywood but not all bad.
Good stuff so far - looking forward to hearing more ideas.
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