Project Idea and Inspiration Summary

In my Cambridge portfolio project, therefore, I am doing this two minutes thriller film opening, it is all about tension, suspense, and the spooky feeling of being stuck somewhere where we are not safe. I am envisioning two friends who are relaxing at home, as on any normal day, and all is so much serene and common-place. Then a booming voice comes on saying everybody to remain inside their houses. This is the moment of the mood change and the viewers begin to think that something is wrong. 

When a broadcast is on, it becomes normal then scary when somebody begins attempting to force his way into the house. I intend to develop the suspense gradually, not by great action shots. It will be concerning employing silence, sound effects and pacing to make everybody feel disturbed. We are not demonstrating a great deal of violence we are merely alluding to the threat so that people can fantasize about it and get spooked. 

The Purge is the major inspiration. The fact that the movie employs emergency alerts, rules, and confinement to build tension and fear appealed to me. I like the way in which it renders the average home unsafe and transforms a familiar environment into something frightening. I am stealing the mood and the thought that danger may strike anytime and being inside is not necessarily a sure thing to be safe.

Another aspect I liked about The Purge is that the suspense was created by showing things not at once. I would like to do it in my very beginning by making the information scarce and leaving the audience to guess what is happening by means of sound, visual effects, and the way the characters respond to them.

   
On the whole, my concept is guided by the storylines and conflict of The Purge and became my personal original idea. With suspense, isolation and fear within a limited duration of time, I would like to come up with a killer thriller opening that would hook the viewers as they would                                                                               not be able to resist wondering what would happen in the                                                                               next part.