Initial Ideas

After watching some films and the like, the most appealing idea for what the genre of the film will be seems to be:

Horror

We intend to take heavy inspiration from films such as American Psycho and The Shining. Various ideas for what we could do with it have arose, mainly to do with three sections - the perspective of the filming, the focus of the action in the film, and the content of the film itself.

Perspective

• The killer's perspective
• The victim's perspective
• A camera's perspective

Focus of the Action

• If from the killer's perspective...
• The focus should be on the actions of the killer, mainly through the use of close-ups. This could be based on the opening scene of American Psycho, in which various objects are made more sinister through the use of close-ups (cutting some food, for example).
• If from the victim's perspective...
• The focus should be from behind objects, in order to imply hiding from the killer - for example, having shots of the killer from under a table, or around an archway. Low shots should also be used in this perspective, in order to imply the dominance of the killer over the victim(s?).
• If from a camera's perspective...
• The camera should have erratic movement and zooming, sort of like various mockumentary films, like Cloverfield and Diary of the Dead. A lot of the shots would be from behind glass, or even outside, in order to imply the presence of an outsider.

Content Ideas

• It could be a title shot, such as the one used in American Psycho (and, more recently, the opening for Dexter, which was inspired by that opening).
• It could focus on the narrative of a man during his daily routine, with sinister undertones.
• It could focus on the interaction between a paranoid agoraphobic and a travelling salesman who comes to his house.
• It could also focus on a sociopath's interaction with the world, using lots of obvious cuts between scenes (such as those used in Shaun of the Dead), and focus on the character in shot rather than those he interacts with, in order to be portray the emotion (or lack thereof) of the character. Sinister undertones in his actions should be used as well, for example during a conversation with someone in a kitchen he could need to go somewhere, but is interrupted constantly by someone continuing a conversation - the character should then be shown to glance at a drawer of knives and sigh, or someting similar.