RESEARCH

    After more research in to the "drama genre," my group and I came up with the idea of making a film under the drama genre but with mysterious and psychological content. In other words a "psychological drama; a type of drama that centers on the character's inner life and problems. This type of drama is commonly watched by females, than men, from ages of 18 to 35. With type of audience, we think that incorporating this kind of content it will intrigue the audience to keep watching the film due to the fact that it will portray psychological challenging behavior. Even though, this genre is not the most popular, compared to comedy and action, it is one of the genres that lets the audience feel more connected with the protagonist of the story.

"Chinatown" (1974)

   To create the film with the use of the "psychological drama", we thought of multiple ideas. At first, we thought to make an opening that will lead the audience feel a sense of mystery, so we leaned towards the idea of making a film that will contain mystery, a detective film from the 1940s. Similar to the film "Chinatown."

   The ideas was to show the struggles of what the detective had to do to achieve his goal and how he is being affected by it. But after thinking of what we wanted to do, such as set designed, props, and costume, we started to think of another ideas due to the fact that this idea will be challenging for us to execute. That it is why we decided to go with another direction that will involve a more psychological theme. In other words, a film that will revolve around the characters feelings, thoughts and struggles throughout his or her life.

   Another idea that we had in mind was to make a film opening that will show psychological struggles of the character. With this being said, we started to think of different mental issues, such as OCD, PTSD, and Agoraphobia, that will collaborate with our story. 

     After doing more research about other films that have used this type of psychological symptoms, we found that movie, "The Aviator," portrays how the protagonist is being affected by his disease on his daily life. The film tells the story of the famous director Howard Hughes and his success on his career as a Hollywood director and as an aviation pioneer. But even though, he had a lot of success in his life, he was also suffering from a severe OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder.

"The Aviator" (2004)

    Another film that portrays very well how a character has feeling of frustration internally and seems affected and targeted by his surroundings is in one scene on the movie "Bohemian Rhapsody." The movie focuses on the life of Freddy Mercury and the success on the most iconic band Queen. But in one scene, where the band is being interviewed, the audience could detect on how Freddy Mercury was frustrated by his surroundings because of the personal questions that were asked. This feeling was very well portrayed on Freddy Mercury by showing blurry images of the reporters, fixing his glasses, sweating, and noises becoming distorted.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" (2018)

Other films that have shown internal and mental issues are: "The Shinning," "The Accountant," and "Matchstick Men."

 I think that this idea of portraying someone, from a personal perspective, with a mental illness will be a great idea for our film opening. Also, on the next couple of days, my group and I will start to develop a storyboard, search for locations, search for actors, and make a schedule for shooting the scenes.

Sources:

https://www.allmovie.com/subgenre/psychological-drama-d542

https://www.filmsite.org/dramafilms.html

https://prezi.com/_tx5rlgdlb1u/psychological-thrillers-target-audience/