During our lessons at school we formed our group for our thriller opening. My group consists of myself, Millie, Evie and Kate. We have been discussing ideas for what we want our thriller opening to be based around. We want to achieve the best grade possible therefore took a lot of consideration into which ideas we thought would be successful and which we thought wouldn't.
We have decided that the narrative of our film will be based around a girl who gets kidnapped and is held hostage for numerous months. The kidnapper treats her extremely badly and rarely feeds her. She starts to physically and mentally deteriorate. Time passes and she uses all the limitless amounts of time she has to slowly form an escape plan. Eventually, she manages to channel all the strength she has within and breaks free. Of course, nothing is that easy, the kidnapper spots her and chases her - what will happen next? will he catch her? will she really escape? we will build our suspense through leaving the audience to decide what happens themselves. We plan to not feature any dialogue within the scenes of our opening and use a voice over instead, in which we will hear the girl narrating us through what is happening in her tape recorded police interview. However, again, as we dont want to give the whole film away, we are limiting the dialouge to a minimal amount.
Obviously before coming up with our final narrative, we had a few other ideas. However, when looking into them further we realised they would either be unsuccessful or would have been difficult to achieve. For example; we originally wanted to show the girl getting kidnapped and being driven away in a car. We later realised this is not possible seeing as we have no access to a car and we cannot drive. We also wanted to film a scene in which the girl gets quite badly injured however we realized it would be a struggle to create a successful scene as we don’t have high tech make-up or hollywood type editing software, therefore it wouldn’t look realistic, which could have an impact on how successful the overall opening would be. We also originally wanted to have two girls getting kidnapped but quickly rejected that idea as we feel for the genre of a thriller, it would have more of an impact if the girl was alone because she then becomes more vulnerable. We also want to show her mentally deteriorating and felt this would be hard to make happen if she had the company of someone else.
After settling on our narrative we began to think about mise en scene
features such as costumes. For the main character of the kidnapped girl we want
her to have ratty, un-brushed, filthy hair, ruined makeup, a withdrawn pale
face and tattered clothing. We think using costumes will make the film look
more professionally and it will be more believable. We plan on working on the
costumes and make-up further.
We also began to think about music and sound effects. We decided on editing them in after we have edited our film so that we can see which ones fit it
best and make it look realistic. We think music and sound effects are an important feature within thriller
films and can either make or break them. We want minimal dialogue other the
voice over because it creates the feeling of not knowing which will unsettle
the audience.
Lastly, we discussed the titles and have
thought that because our opening is a flashback, it is important for us to show
a time shift therefore at the end of our opening we need a title to state that
what the audience has just seen was 3 months earlier. As for the titles that
state things like the director, producer and stars name we will place them
whilst the clips are playing. As for the film company opening logos we are
going to potentially put these in when we have finished editing so that we can
get an idea on the length of the overall video. This will impact on whether we
use one from YouTube or if we make one ourselves as only the ones we create
will add to the time.
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