Group Narrative

My Narrative 

Idea for a Narrative

The film with begin with a person with a young man who's identity would be hidden. A young man would walk in a room wearing a hood the hood would create a shadow on his face. This will make it unable for the audience to see the young man's face. The young man would walk into a big room dragging a bag inside the room. As he walks into the room. I will use a pan shot. Where i will pan the entire room. The room would have red spotlights.I will use low key lighting. the room will give a very scary feeling as i would be using red spotlights to give the room a feeling of fear. The colour red would represent blood. In the room there would be kids boys and girls sitting quietly in the corner weeping silently.

Mies-en-scene

The room would have toys that have a very scary look. A big clown  in one corner of the room. In another corner there would be a missed up barbie doll. The eyes of the barbie are taken out and the hair is messed up. On the shelves the audience will see musical toys. An alarm clock that strikes 12 and a broken bird comes out. It keeps out 12 times to create affect. The young man comes inside with a bag he opens the bag up and there is a  little girl that comes out, The little girl is wearing a dress and has two pigtails. She is clutching onto a necklace. Her head is down. The young man pushes the little girl and gives one of the security guys a hand gesture. The security guy then takes the little girl  and ties her up with the others. The young man then shuts the do behind or him and the opening ends there. As soon as the door closes , the shot is changed to 3 hours earlier which will show hoe the little girl ended up there.

Characters

The young man : The young man's identity would be hidden. He isn't given a name in my opening film. The young man will be dressed in all black and will also be wearing a hood we wouldn't be able to see his face. The hood will create a shadow on the young man's face which will create a scary look.

The little girl : The little girl would be showed weak and vulnerable. Able to stand up for herself. The little girl needs to be shown small compared to the young man. The girl will be wearing a white dress which will show that she is innocent and pure. She would be clutching to a necklace which would show her fearful state. She would have tears running down her face but she wouldn't make a sound and would try not to make any sound.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Ads: it obvious to a the audience that its a thriller film as the conventions are apparent. 

Dis-ads: It will be hard to find a location and the needed props for the film opening.

Group Narrative 

Rebecca Caley

My film would be the beginning sequence of the thriller film. 

It would start in a dark, dirty room, with nothing in it but a chair, which a young female would be tied to. The windows would be boarded up and there would be one dim lamp near her, so the audience could see the character, but not too clearly. The floorboards would be dark, stained wood.  It would be instantly apparent to the audience that the character is in danger as she would be crying and her mouth would be tied up. She'd also have a trickle of blood running down her cheek from her forehead. 

A man would then walk in, but his identity would be kept hidden and he's be carrying a knife. She would keep quiet and look away from him as she doesn't want to know what he's about to do.  I picked an empty, seemingly abandoned room because it is conventional to a thriller film, because it created an enigma, suspense and tension and these are all things that would be good to include in my own thriller. 

The rest of the feature film would include this character's life in this house, she'd never be allowed to leave. The man would be convinced that she is his wife, and she would be forced to act as such and would be locked in the empty room and punished when she disobeyed him. She'd also be put locked in the room when he leaves the house, to prevent her from escaping. The film would end with a fight between the male and female, and the audience would knot know whether he killed her or not. 

Advantages and Disadvantages

Ads: The idea is very simple. It will also be easier to obtain iconography. iT is very Conventional to a thriller film.

Dis-ads: Hard to find an abandoned location.

Drew Wyllie

Film openings are vitally important as it sets the scene for the whole of the film.  My narrative would begin in a dark forest in the early evening a woman would be seen running towards the camera frantically, her clothes would be ripped and she would look dirty and tear stains and blood would be visible on her face. 2 gun shots would be heard in the background of the forest and the woman's reaction would be to run faster and shriek loudly. She would then start to slow down so she was creeping around a tree trying not to be seen or heard, (this would fit the conventions of a thriller as it would create suspense and foreboding) she would look lost and helpless then suddenly as she steps out from behind the tree a mans gloved hand closes over he mouth she screams and struggles and the man whispers words to her suddenly she passes out and is dragged through the forest.

The rest of the film feature would include the story on the mans physiological ways and the woman's story on how she ended up a prisoner. There would be a dark cabin featured in the film that would have low key lighting to hide his identity and make the scenes seem more dark grimy and mysterious. I would use high key lighting for flash backs and memories that would play-out through-out the film as the audience is informed of the story. The enigma of the film would me the mystery of the woman's stalker keeping her captive and if/how will she get out.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Ads: Location is easy to find. No complications in using the forest. It has obvious conventions of a thriller film.

Dis-ads:  it would be hard to put across the plot of the film to the audience.

Final Group Narrative

We have decided to use part of all the narratives to create one. The Protagonist would be a young girl. The film would start in an abandoned dark room. From where she would try to escape. We then gets flashbacks of her running in a forest where she is alone for a while. Which makes the audience feel that maybe she survived but the out of nowhere a man catches her. This is how the enigma would be solved. She gets caught and ends back in the room. In the room we can see her weeping. She is wearing ripped clothes with blood stains on them. Her hair is messed up her physical appearance will make the audience feel for the female character. This will make the audience continue watching to find if she survives. A man walks in with a knife who's identity is hidden. He will be wearing a hood. His identity would be hidden which makes the audience wonder about who he is. The scene will end when the man pulls a knife out. We have decided to use a forest for our thriller film as forests is conventional to thriller film. The forest has a fearful feeling. This is a conventional location as well as the abandoned room is another convention of  a thriller. An abandoned room has a fearful atmosphere. A room that hasn't been used by anyone due to some reasons.
The characters in my thriller film are very conventional as well. My thriller film has two common characters used in a thriller film. These characters include ' the victim ' and 'the villain'. The victim in my thriller film is a young blonde girl who is weak and vulnerable. This is conventional as women are portrayed as being weak and usually are the victim in films. At the same time the villain identity is hidden. Hidden identities are another conventions of thriller films. The villain character  in the opening sequence is hidden and the character is suspenseful as it comes out of nowhere and catches the young blonde girl.
The characters in my thriller opening will allow my audience to build a relationship between the characters. the young blonde girl is hopeless in a situation that is intense. The  audience would be able to relate to the character and feel what the character might be feeling. The audience will sympathies will the character. The audience will fear for the character as to what might happen to the character.