Development as a Group

We first put each of our ideas together and attempted to find a way to mix them all into the idea. However, one idea which particularly stuck out for the group was a thriller about 'Silk Road', a website that deals with drugs. This seemed like the most attractive idea because it was a well-known scandal which we thought could make the thriller all the more interesting. We also thought that this idea had a lot of opportunity for inventive editing (e.g shots of the screen, cutting to shots of action) We decided to focus on this one would be the simplest thing to do because we were all drawn to this idea and decided that less is more.

From this, we thought about what kind of action we could have with this idea. We decided that we should have young people buying drugs from the website to show the influence of drugs on young people in England today. We also decided we wanted some scenes in the warehouse where the drugs would be stored, to give the audience a view of the drug world they probably never would have scene and make the thriller interesting. Finally, we decided that so far we hadn't made it sound enough like a thriller so to conform it to the thriller genre, we thought that having the police involved somehow would make the thriller exciting. We then came up with a basic storyline:

1. Young person in room tries to order drugs on Silk Road website.
2. We see the delivery service and the labour in the warehouse where the drugs are stored.
3. Something goes wrong, the police are onto the company and try to track them. Before delivery has a chance to happen, police have arrested Silk Road employees.