Similar films

 Stage 2 of Final Project

Since the plot of the film has changed after I typed my first project process blog, its sort of harder to find films with a similar plot to ours with the killer working with the police to throw them of the killer trail. Since the killer first stalks then kills their victims after texting them "I see you" its pretty specific on finding the right one as well. 

So far the only movie I could think of that has a similar plot is Death Note (2006), mainly the part where the killer is part of the police. It's even a mystery/crime. The budget for this specific film was estimated to be around $20,000,000, according to IMBD. Of course the budget of our film wont nearly me around that amount. I even remember when brainstorming the idea for out film a member of our group complained how the idea kept getting compared to Death Note when they haven't seen it.

It's target audience are adults and teens who loved reading the manga and for new comers who love a mystery film that isn't afraid to go dark. Our target audience are people who are into mystery and would enjoy a good twist that the killer was part of the police that were searching for them.

From what I could find they never specified on how the movie was financed, but what I could find was how films get financed. Movies can get financed by either the studio that agreed to help with the film or the film's producers working on a budget and secure financing for the film, when it's an independent film. When the film is an indie film the filmmakers use their tax credits, grants, and personal networks to fund the film. 

Sources: IMBD of Death Note 

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Final Project process Stage 1

 

Stage 1 of Final Project

*After the creation of this blog post the idea for the film was changed to a story about a stalker who kills people after texting them "I see you"

When it comes to what type of movie we were going for is group has chosen mystery, and the plot is about a person who was found murdered after taking part of a tense argument online.  The plot is about a girl who vents about her problems at school to her online friends of whom she doesn't know personally, but still see them as her friends. Suddenly the girl is murdered by one of the online friends after a heated argument, but no one in the group knows who killed her. It's similar to Unfriended, but with a hint of mystery in it.  I think it might be part psychological thriller since it kind of focuses on bullying, cyberbullying, and it contains a person getting doxed online (something that many people fear about having it happen to them).

The theme of the movie could be be careful of who you trust online? or be careful of what you share online? Honestly I'm not really sure about the theme yet, but the style it could be like in some scenes we could screen-record the conversation between the group in some scenes and some scenes it could be real life. The characters? Maybe we could try to make the friend group have very diverse personalities. Since their faces and names wont be shown we might have to try to make their online profiles and avatars coordinate to their personality, so when the viewer sees them they could see what they might be like based off of their profile.  Mainly got inspired by Unfriended with the profile thing.

 

After watching the film openings of Get Out and Antebellum, both are psychological thriller and mystery. Both film openings seem to tell a bit of the plot without giving away too much. In Get Out the opening mainly show the couple's mourning routine, even cutting to show how both separately. 

Even while  watching the opening scene for Unfriended (or at least the scene that first plays in the film) it mostly shows the main characters or some characters doing what they would normally do.

 In the first shot of the intro for Get Out it shows someone stuffing what seems to be another person into the back of their car before driving off.  Then it cuts to the title card with a forest in the background, but its made to look like you're passing by a forest in a moving vehicle. 

Later, it shows black and white photographs of different things on the wall and people, such as white pit-bull and a pregnant woman's bump. It then cuts multiple time to show the main character's home, judging by the decoration and the place's appearance we can assume that the main character is a photographer. 

 Later on it shows the male character doing his mourning routine and the female character getting breakfast for them, it continues to cut back and forth to them doing this until the female character returns home with the breakfast and kissing male partner. Based off this information it seems that the two are in a relationship together. 

There isn't really a setting since we were planning for the film to mainly show like a group chat between a group of people online. If a scene requires to see a person I was thinking it could show it from a view of a camera like in Unfriended: Dark Web.

The intended audience for the film I feel would be teenagers, the plot of the film seems like something teens maybe interested in. Yet, the mystery part may draw in older audiences, I may say that the intended audience would be teens and adults who are into mystery.  

They would normally the font looks clean and kind of plan, my guess it's to make it seem serious. Most of the time the font wont take too much space in the poster and in most posters such as The Woman In The Window they mainly show a person's face looking at the camera or from a 3/4 angle. 

The stereotypes in mystery films kind of bother me in a way, like the detective's partner whos there for comedic breaks so the audience can take a break from the seriousness of the plot. There's also the detective who extremely serious about their job and the pretty lady who's mainly there for, I want to say fan service, but I feel like that's not the right word, so I'll just say that for now.