Development of ideas

Following our 2nd day of filming the group was inspired to develop our ideas further, eventually thinking of a plot idea which we believe will significantly improve our film. Although this will involve changing both the script and storyboard, we think it will be worth the effort.

We decided that instead of the ending twist being that the psychiatrist is killed by the patient, the patient should be killed by the psychiatrist. We thought that the twist should be that the audience is led to believe that the patient has committed suicide at the start, and at the end we find out that they are actually killed by the psychiatrist, who drags the body to the bath tub we see the patient in at the start and places a suicide note by his body.

Not only will this be a more effective twist, it will allow us to implement several ideas:
- There will be a news report on the radio about killings in the area at the beginning, planting enigmas in the mind of the viewer.
- Our chosen setting of a fairly plain and conventional house will provide the perfect setting, as the psychiatrist will be calling into the patient’s house. This will allow us to make the ending effective as it will only look like a suicide if the patient is dead in his own bath tub.
- As we see a hand writing a suicide note earlier in the film, the audience will not know who the hand belongs to, again creating enigmas.

The final scene, although originally planned to be a repeat of the first scene, could be extended so that the radio says that the serial killer is posing as a psychiatrist and making the murders look like suicides.