The Film That Inspired Genre Choice For Main Task

The film that I watched and that made me decide that making a teen thriller movie for my coursework would be good was The Blair Witch Project. The film is about a group of teenagers that head off in to the woods to make a film about the legend of Blair Witch. They can only drive so far and they do the rest of the journey by foot. When they get deeper in to the forest they start having problems and things start to go wrong. They eventually get attacked every night in the woods by something that they can not see or every find. One member of the group gets taken and they set off looking for him. They find the deserted house that he is shouting from and when they get in there they have a panic and they are murdered.

This genre lends itself to Gordonstoun very well as the school grounds can become creepy if you are on your own, in certain lights etc. There are many locations that we could use to make the film but the ones that we have chosen to use are the church and graveyard, which is very spooky as it is surrounded by trees and gravestones give the added effect, The Silent Walk, which is a long path with trees on both sides which leads up to the graveyard and is very spooky if you are there on your own and you think someone else is there but you cannot see them. This is something that the group thought that could very easily be added in to the story. As in the Blair Witch Project this is the fear of not knowing what is out there. In this movie we were thinking of adding the fear of not quite knowing who or what is out there. The last location that we were thinking of using was a bedrooms in of the boarding houses.

One of the main reasons that helped us decide on making a teen thriller is that the teen part of it is already here because it is a school. There wouldn't need to be any props etc as it is just usual life.

I personally think that it is the shots and the locations are the elements that can really make the film special. Luckily we have the locations at hand therefore allowing us to focus on getting some really good angles and shots.

Written by Gregor Sharp

Charlie Lambourne

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The Blairwitch Project is another scary film that inspired us
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