Idea of claustrophobia

We decide to base our thriller around a specific fear which is widely shared. We thought that claustrophobia is one fear that if we base our thriller around that, it will add lots of tension to the sequence as the audience will feel like they are in there with the character due to the chosen camera angles.
We researched into the definition of claustrophobia to try and incorporate aspects of the fear which we could use to induce stress and anxiety to the audience to increase tension


"Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has an irrational fear of having no escape or being closed-in. It frequently results in a panic attack and can be triggered by certain stimuli or situations" -http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/37062.php


We had researched news articles of a similar event happening in real life. It was difficult to picture this event happening, so this gave us some more inspiration to our core idea.