Research into our film's genre

The original idea for our groups film was a thriller, this was because of our advanced knowledge of genre from AS media studies. We wanted it to be psychological and cerebral, a film which was action based but made you think, immediately we decided on researching films of this sub genre.

The butterfly effect was just one of these films. Its cerebral message of chaos theory made the audience think and we took several ideas and conventions from this film.

• We liked the whole parallel universe idea and thought that it would place the psychological idea nicely in our film.
• The entire trailer seems to be action packed and much like a chase.
• The music score is typically thriller.

We didn't end up taking all the thriller conventions, because it just wouldn't suit the plot of the film but we did take the parallel universe idea and made it a major part of our production.

Donnie Darko was once again another cerebral film, although not technically a thriller it still contained many conventions of one and was important to us nonetheless.

• The thriller convention of the knife, which we used in our AS film, was a good idea.
• The psychiatrist element would also be a good plot for a protagonist Chris to encounter.
• The use of sound bridges was also something that our film could have.
• The theme of fire was also nice and shows insanity of Donnie Darko.

Once again we didn't take many of the conventions or ideas of this film rather challenged them, we decided that the knife was so typical in a thriller so we decided on scrapping it and replacing the knife with an unusual weapon, wulfurin which is poisonous and after research into euthanasia we chose that to be our weapon, which is extremely unorthodox.

We also decided that we didn't want our lead protagonist (chris) to be seen as mentally unstable but confused, and mentally exhausted about looking after his mother once again deciding against the whole psychiatrist element.

After much review of our treatment we thought adult drama or 'kitchen-sink drama' seemed a more appropriate genre for our film.

The plot is very realistic and is a genre typical to england, the themes are relativity similar to our film's and that is mainly it, the conventions are from psychological thrillers though.