Before we reached our final idea, we discussed other possible story lines.
Our first idea was, having some children playing a board game, each time they make a move on the game it happens to them in real life. Each stage on the board leads them to challenges which they have to over come. They must reach the final other wise they are stuck living the game. We decided not to use this idea because it will be difficult to film the settings of each challenge and still make it look real.
Another idea we discussed was to have a car chase, this leaves the audience wondering why there is a chase and will they catch up. For obvious reasons we left this idea because it was difficult to film as well as dangerous. Furthermore, we came to a conclusion that this idea has been over used and we wanted to go for a more unthought of idea.
An idea we liked and began to elaborate on was having a man recieve a video tape of someone held hostage which the person has to find were the they are and rescue them. We also stayed with the idea of the video tape but this time it reveals a bomb and a countdown time, which the person must find where the bomb is located and stop it. We liked these ideas because they gave it a sense of danger and built up suspense and the audience is left thinking "will he find the person/bomb in time?"
Our final idea: "Blackout"
We will have a man/women (depending on if we find the right person) in a nightclub, he/she is offered a pill, which they take and "Blackout". The setting changes from the nightclub to the persons bedroom who is dazed and confused, we see something being posted through the letter box which the protagonist reveals that it is a dvd. They play the dvd on the television and we see a person being tortured on the screen, he/she is confused as to why this has been sent to him. However as the dvd continues the camera matches the actions acting out on the dvd and the marks on the protagonist's body. He/she realises that they are the person on the dvd and the opening ends by him revealing he wants to find the person who has done this to them and take revenge. We settled for this idea because it was different and we found that it would be very interesting to shoot but still possible, also because our group all agreed on this idea.
We came up with many names for our final idea such as, "Haze", Dead out", "Blanks", "Torture" but decided on "Blackout". We chose this because it was the one that fitted the most with our idea and stays true to the story line.
