Development of Our Ideas

Idea one: From previous research on thrillers in general me and my group have become very keen on the idea of making a Bollywood thriller which will have a key theme of "Obsession". Now we have briefly decided on what type of cultural thriller we are going to make and the theme we then thought of possibilities of story lines  We thought of a theme of "Unrequited Love" as we think it would fit in with the main theme of obsession. Love and romance is also something that appeared frequently when looking at and reviewing the conventions of Bollywood, because of this we thought it would be a good idea to include a slight theme of love as it is what the audience would expect. The story line which we thought may go with this idea is: a man who's love for a Women has never been understood and has distorted his thoughts leading him on to act sporadically. A story line such as this we also believed would look great if some kind of flashback could take place.

Idea two: Another possible idea based on a similar story line is that a male antagonist is having hallucinations and believes their lover is cheating on them, driving them insane. This plot may go down well with thriller fans however if we were to aim it at the Bollywood market this could be seen to be bending the conventions too far.

Problems with doing Bollywood?
As we looked into Bollywood further to develop a more advanced understanding we noticed that we had a slightly dilemma. We found out that Bollywood is iconic of Indian culture featuring dance and music. This may be a problem as the upbeat music may not fit into the dark tone and mood we want to create in the opening of our thriller. However, we looked into different types of Indian music which is more slow and mysterious and will help providing the correct tone. This is the only huge problem we can find  which shows us that the pros outweigh the cons. Below is an example of the type of music we could use: 



Overall, I think me and my group are making good progress with developing our ideas as we all have agreed on the main theme which leads us onto thinking about our story line. Highlighting errors that may bring our coursework mark down helps us notice what we need to do to change the problem resulting in our coursework piece being successful.