Here is a personal list of films that I shall watch that has some aspects similar to our film ideas. This will be separate from my research into films and existing conventions.

Click on the Names to see the IMDB profile of each film.

• Leon the professional
• Usual suspects
• Se7en

TV shows to watch

• Whitechapel

Short films to watch

• The Fly
• Prosopagnosia
• The offering

Traits of a psychopath:

1. Uncaring

2. Shallow emotions

3. Irresponsibility 

4. Insincere speech

5. Overconfidence

6. Narrowing of attention

7. Selfishness

8. Violence

Traits of a serial killer:

1. Childhood abuse or neglect

2. Poor school record, despite intelligence

3. Excessive antisocial behaviour

4. Compulsive fascinating

5. Head injuries

6. Voyurism

7. Bed wetting

8. Arson

9. Animal cruelty

Taken from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindmelding/201301/what-is-psychopath-0

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/11/19/9-traits-of-a-potential-serial-killer-know-the-signs-2447394?lt_source=external,manual

We created a survey and sent it out to some of our audience. Most of the respondents were people who took part in a BFI workshop that looked at short films.  Here is a link to the survey that we sent out. Below is the raw data that we have. I will post later showing the conclusions of the results.

                         

Slidehsow results from zoeellis

The original story about the three bears is about three sized bears and an old woman. Unlike the Brothers Grimm tales this has an open and less twisted ending.

"Out the little old Woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there; or found her way out of the wood, and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell. But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her."

We are using the idea that she was caught by the police but incorporating the Brothers Grimm style fairytales as well as the modern version where the old woman is a young girl called goldilocks.

Click Here to read the original story.

This is the original script that we are going to use. This is a monologue that Jess wrote and the two of us are going to edit this to work as a short film as well as adding in new scenes and other ideas as well as camera angles. This full script and story board will be posted at a later date.

Here are some test posters that We made to help visualise what we are thinking about the posters. These have been made before any research and are our ver first initial ideas. Each poster uses a similar image fading into a black background. We chose this as the black background helps to set the mood for the film as well as make the image stand out to passers by. Also the black background makes it easier for us to add text onto the poster.

1. The first poster uses a ver small child and we thought this design uses the aspect of the girls innocence of the famous three bears story.
2. On the second poster it shows the girl being happy and smiling which i think juxtaposes the themes of our film too much.
3. This third poster is good as we could add something in the background that we can have her looking at. This makes the poster easier to expand.

Here are the fonts that we are looking at. These four all look slightly similar and have similar connotations and we like that they have a vague creepy look. This is good as the fonts match the traditional three bears story.

When looking at these fonts we feel that they look like they portray the character of Goldilocks as they are handwritten and have that fairytale look but they gauge creepiness coming from our psychopathic killer.

Click Here to see our choice in the fonts and a preview of the fonts on screen.