For the past two days, we've been discussing a possible timeline for the idea about a serial killer in a job centre. The progress was going well, we had just about decided on a beginning and a middle; the story was going in the direction of the job centre being for serial killers only, and it essentially surrounded trying to find new victims to serial killers who were struggling to find suitable victims. We wanted the entire set up to be really professional looking, as if it was a real job centre and completely serious to add to the sarcastic and comedic vibe of the film.
The storyline basically consisted of our main character who was a male serial killer going to the job centre to find new victims. There would be a waiting room where serial killers wait to be interviewed by the employees at the centre, where they would find some suitable victims for the killer, and in the waiting room there would be some well known killers such as Ted Bundy. Throughout all of this, we would be going back and forth between interview styled shots of the main character talking about why he is going to the job centre. The main part of the film would consist of the actual interview between the employee and the main character, and finding their suitable victim. This was all okay, but we really struggled to find a good ending. Of course, we wanted to make the ending include the actual murder, but we thought that the ending was pretty boring, predictable and didn't do much for the audience. There really was no way for us to make the ending entertaining, because there isn't much you can make exciting about a job centre. So, we tried to make the actual plot better so that we had more of an idea to build off of.
We started to think of shows like 'The Undateables' which have 2 people going on a blind date, so we thought we could film something like that but put our twist on it. So, essentially, we would have 2 serial killers who are trying to change their ways and find love; pretty much leaving their psychotic want to kill people behind and settle down with someone like regular people. However, of course it's not going to work out. We figured that this gives us a lot more of an interesting plot to base our ideas around, and lets our film timeline flow better. We have a rough idea of the beginning, middle and end but it isn't yet finalised, so I'll update about it in the next post.
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