Developing Ideas
Idea 1 narrative
A child is found wondering around the forest and a male and female finds the female child. When the two couples find the child and finds out that she is lost and her parents have died, and the two parent take her to their house to comfort and keep her safe. As soon as the two couples leave the girl to sleep they go to their room to go to sleep as well. As the child knows that the couples have feel asleep she goes down to the kitchen and takes a knife to kill the two couples, as she has mental problems and she only knows to kill people that try to help her.
Title: Help.
Sub-genre: Psychological Thriller
Characters: Evil Child, Female victim, Male victim.
Narrative Structure: Aristotle Theory.
MES:
Location – Forest, Isolated house.
Iconography – Knife
Costume
- Child with bloody clothes, dirty muddy.
- Female victim has a white jumper and blue jeans/ white pjs.
- Male victim has grey jacket and white t-shirt with tan chinos/ blue pjs.
Lighting – low key lighting, dim and faint.
Body language – Child is loose and head is always down, also the child’s feet drags when she walks.
Advantages:
Conventional thriller narrative
Characters that are clearly shown in the thriller genre
Disadvantages:
Getting people to play the characters of this narrative.
Having a child to play the character and also the acting of the child.
Idea 2 narrative
A mental ginger antagonist has escaped and then finds a vulnerable female that chases and she is a typical female victim, along an alleyway and through the park, chases a young typical female victim. She would be kidnapped and taken into the antagonist house, and then the antagonist will dig a hole, intent to kill the victim.
Title: Gin
Sub Genre: Psychological Thriller
Sub Genre: Psychological Thriller
Characters: Female victim, Antagonist.
Narrative Structure: Aristotle Theory
MES:
Location – alleyway, park, garden
Lighting – Low key lighting
Clothing –
Female victim, revealing dress
Antagonist, Black cloak
Iconography: Alcohol.
Advantages:
Easy to film
Conventional thriller
Disadvantages:
Audience might not understand the name.
The characters might not be reliable on.
Idea 3 narrative
Narrative: The child watches a movie that isn’t for his age, and after he watched it he didn’t know that when he imaged from the movie into real life, he thought his parents was the antagonist that want to kill him, but he doesn’t know that his parents are no harm. Then when they start to try helping him, he kills them.
Title: Imagine.
Sub Genre: Psychological Thriller
Characters: Child, Mother & Father.
Narrative structure: Aristotle Or Barthes
MES:
Location: Home
Lighting: Low Key, almost blackout
Clothing:
Child- black t-shirt and black trousers
Mother: White Top, Jeans
Father: Black Top, Jeans
Advantages:
Easy to film
Conventional Thriller Narrative
Disadvantages:
Child to play character
Child that would act properly in the thriller
Conclusion
As we have made some ideas for the narrative, this has helped us as a group to create a narrative with collective ideas from the whole group. With doing this the other ideas that have been made have been put into the group narrative and as a group we are happy with the storyline of the thriller. With doing this the decisions that have been made are all the camera, angles, size and movement because it has helped us create an image of how our thriller will be.
Great planning of ideas here. Good to see that you have discussed different options and have critically thought about them too.
ReplyDeleteTo improve, state at the end which idea out of the three you will most likely go with and why. How has this helped with decisions of cinematogrpahy?