The document outlines plans for an independent psychological thriller film. It discusses choosing Strike Entertainment as the independent production company and Maple Pictures as the distributor. It proposes iconic directors like Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Richard Kelly as inspirations. It describes the hero character as an unlikely hero like Jesse Eisenberg's role in Zombieland, the victim character as a stereotypical attractive blonde played by Emily Atack, and the villain character played by Jake Gyllenhaal. It presents a plot where a man suspects his girlfriend of cheating and goes on a killing spree wearing a mask. The genre is established as psychological thriller through music, sound, and title credits using red typography.

1. Distorted decisions
By James Harrison and Patrick O’Hara

2. Institutions
The institutions we are using are strike entertainment and maple pictures.
Strike entertainment is an American small independent institution which
will fit well for our film as is is an independent film. Our distributer is maple
pictures who are a fairly big company and have distributed in films such as
the devil inside and saw 3D, so the reputation of maple pictures is quite
large ultimately.

3. Iconic directors/actors
Some iconic psychological thriller directors are Stanley Kubrick (the shining,
Martin Scorsese (shutter island) and Richard Kelly (Donnie darko). All have
directed psychological thrillers and have aspired us to direct a
psychological thriller.
The actors there needs to be at least a killer, a victim and a hero the victim
should be a sinister and creepy person, the typical victim should be a
blonde teenage girl and the hero should be a strong willed quite well built
man.

4. Character- hero
• The hero should be a person like Jesse Eisenburg who plays a lead role in
the film zombie land and his character is strong willed yet has a funny side
to him. He isn’t really well built and is an unlikely hero as he doesn’t fit the
stereotype of a hero but he has a good personality and a wide range of
skills.

5. Character- victim
Our victim needs to be a very stereo typical victim with
blonde hair and very attractive and not very intelligent.
We think that a actress like Emily Atack would make a
good victim as she fits the stereotype for a typical victim
in a film. Having a well known and good looking victim
like Emily Atack would attract a lot of viewers. She is also
a model which will attract and influence the audience.

6. Character- villain
• The villain needs to be a fairly sinister person with dark hair and not
exactly well built but must have a sharp mind to make decisions. We have
chosen Jake Gyllenhaal as he fits our idea for a villain and he has stared in
films such as Donnie darko and zodiac.

7. Plot
It is just an average day and a boyfriend is making a romantic meal for himself and
his girlfriend but when she doesn’t turn up he starts to get anxious and
worried. He go’s over to his friends house the next evening only to see his
friend with his girlfriend and a small group of friends which leads him to the
suspicions that his girlfriend is cheating on him with his friend which ignites an
anger inside him. When he arrives home from his friends house he is so angry
with everyone in that house he smashes everything that reminds him of his
girlfriend and friends until he stumbles upon a mask stashed away in the back
of a cupboard. As he puts on the mask he senses a evil happiness wearing the
mask and goes into the kitchen and picks up the knife he was using to prepare
the meal the previous night seeing it as a fitting weapon to kill his girlfriend
with. He storms back to the house and manages to sneak into the house and
to the horror of the unsuspecting friends the masked man walks in to the
living room and the characters inside the living room are shocked and startled
by the looks of their faces.………. The ending sends the audience off on a
cliffhanger ending, creating the whole aspect of suspense ultimately.

8. genre
• In our film opening we choose the Psychological thriller genre
and we will convey this to the audience using a certain type of
music and sound which matches the genre and makes it flow.
we will also use a certain type of typography in the credits to
make it reflect the type of genre we are using, for example in
our opening titles we are using the colour red, which
represents blood which is iconic to the genre. We are also
using the typography in a rough, jagged found which reflects
and represents our genre to the audience.