Throughout the week we've been expanding on our film ideas. The serial killer idea definitely seems like its going to stay, however our main issue was figuring out which genre would suit us the best. Originally, we were thinking a drama (pretty much the same sort of style as 'Mindhunter'), so we did a bit of research into these type of shows. Dramatic-documentary was the path we were kind of edging towards.
Mindhunter was our main source of inspiration throughout researching the Docu-Drama genre. We also did some research into other Docu-Dramas like 'Jeff' (The Jeffrey Dahmer Files) which is an experimental documentary basically explaining the story of Jeffrey Dahmer and his killings.
As keen as we were on the idea of a docu-drama, we decided that our recreation would be too similar to an episode of Mindhunter, and it just wasn't really as original as we wanted it to be. We aimed to have an idea that was different and interesting to the audience, so by going with this genre we would simply be regurgitating material that has already been done. This inspired us to look into other genres that still had the documentary sort of style to it, and that's when we came to the idea of a mockumentary.
We started researching mockumentaries such as 'The Office' and figured that this genre allowed us to still keep the interview set up, and also allowed us to keep the documentary style. However, this idea also lets us to create new material that hasn't been done many times before - how many times have you seen a mockumentary about serial killers? We tried to think of a couple of ideas that seemed quite funny to do in combination with serial killers, just to give us a ground to work on before we started researching the genre. We were thinking of ideas like job centres and employment, like a serial killer trying to get a job in a job centre - a basic idea but still comical. We started exploring this idea and planning out a couple scenarios - Would we incorporate more famous killers such as Ted Bundy? Would we have the serial killer going for a real job, or just another kill/victim? Is the job centre FOR serial killers, or is this just a serial killer in a normal job centre? All of these questions helped us to give us a ground idea, and we thought it was a really random and funny idea, and definitely possible for us to do.
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