1.What is the purpose of using a white background throughout the majority of the opening sequence?
2.Why have you chosen to use a male antagonist?
3.How are you going to achieve the effect of a completely white room?
4.Where are you going to get the sound effects used in your opening sequence from?
5.What sort of camera angles and shots are you going to use the most?
6.How and where are you going to pull off the idea of a completely white room?
7.Why did you decide to choose the sub genre of psychological thriller?
8.What film would you say has influenced your idea ?
9.Did you all incorporate little bits of each others ideas or was it one persons idea you decided on?
10.How many different settings will include in your opening sequence?
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Unit 22 Written synopsis
Section One- Content
Our story begins
with a female character, Alicia, sudden waking from a nightmare about her dad.
In this nightmare, Alicia is a 10 year old girl spying on her parents arguing,
and he suddenly grabs her neck from behind and twists it far enough to break her
neck; she dies. When she wakes, she finds herself strapped to a chair with
bruises on her arms. As confused as she is, she starts crying for help, calling
her boyfriend’s name and best friend’s name. She has no idea she’s being
watched and within seconds a voice comes out of the speakers asking her
questions about her personal life. During this time, she tries to untie herself
then she hears a very personal question about her past when she was mentally
challenged and her brain floods with memories and flashbacks of the moment her
father murdered her mother. She then breaks out of the chair and loses her mind
and before she gets a chance to leave the room, her boyfriend, Daniel, reaches
her and murders her with a knife and during this time he drops his wallet on
the floor without notice. This gives a lead to the police about Alicia’s murder
during her investigation.
Section Two-Narrative
Our story will be
told using a linear structure whereby all events that happened are revealed to
the audience in chronological order. The audience will see the events happen as
if the film was following an ‘a to b to c ‘structure which follows the idea of
one event after the other.
A narrative device is a
technique used by a writer in telling a story. The three narrative devices that we will include in our opening sequence
are foreshadowing, flashback and … Foreshadowing consists of giving the
audience an insight into what is going to happen later on in the film/story.
The reason we have chosen to use the narrative device of foreshadowing is to
create and add suspense to the storyline which also engages the reader and
gives them a desire to want to watch the full film. Another narrative listed
above that we are going to use is the use of flashbacks. A Flashback provides
the audience with missing information about a certain characters life or an
event that occurred as to why the problem has occurred and how exactly the
enigma will be solved. In our particular narrative we will use the use of
flashbacks when revealing to the audience what happened previously in the
protagonist’s life in terms of how his dad’s behaviour has led to his mental
illness. In our opening sequence we include a false hero which is the
interviewer and a real hero which is the police officer. The fact that we have
these two roles in our thriller movie shows how we have applied Propp’s
approach to the narrative to our opening sequence.
Section Three-Genre
We will be using the flashback thriller convention at the
beginning of the film and flashbacks are often used to recount events that
happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial
backstory. The main character of the opening sequence, Alicia, flashbacks to
the moment of her father murdering her mother when she was a 10 year old girl.
This scene will be full of suspenseful music and sound effects along with huge
tension in the room after the murder scene is over which is what creates the
thriller genre.
Another convention we will be using is dramatic and
suspenseful music so the audience are able to understand the mood of the
characters and hint a significant part of the film. This music will mostly be
non-diegetic to add drama to moments that would be silent without it, for
example when Alicia shows fear from Daniel who is about to kill her, she shows
Lastly, we will be using a lot of close-ups and extreme
close-ups to show emotion and also the focus on props to aid narrative. Low and
high level framing will also be used to indicate who’s got the power in that
scene. For example when Daniel is about to kill Alicia.
Section Four-Style
One camera conventions we will use is the camera
angles. We will use this by filming from
a low angle to show that the main character is vulnerable. Another camera convention we will use is
camera movement. We will use this by moving the camera frequently to build up
suspense. One camera editing conventions we will use is the pace. We will use
this to show that the pace is rapid so it creates tension. Another camera
convention we will use is transitions. There will be more fades than typical, particularly between
scenes to show flashbacks. One sound convention we will use is the
music. We will use this by adding low, repetitive bass driven music to show that there is suspense and
tension in the scenes. Another sound convention we will use is voice overs. We
will use this by having speakers in the background to show that someone is
speaking in the background. This will
add to the enigma and make the audience question who’s speaking. One
mise-en-scene convention we will use is the props. We will use a knife, wallet
and a chair to make the scenes to look realistic. Another mise-en-scene
convention we will use in the performance. We will use this by showing the main
characters expression always serious so it goes with the theme of the
story.
Section Five: Brief interpretation
The way in
which our thriller will meet this particular requirement from the brief is by
ensuring that our thriller opening sequence contains content that is suitable
for all those over the age of 15 to view. Our opening sequence will have an age
rating of 15 years old. The purpose of this is so that we do not leave out
those who are aged 16 and 17 in the target audience which would be the case if
produced an opening sequence with content that only those 18 and over could
watch.
‘It should include all the conventions of a
film opening and many of the techniques used in the thriller genre.’
My team and
I have researched and looked into common thriller conventions used in
psychological thrillers particularly to ensure that the product we produce can
clearly be labeled as a thriller film and meet the brief. An example of one of
the conventions that we will include in our thriller opening sequence is by
showing the audience a clear protagonist (victim) and an antagonist (the one
who does wrong).In our opening sequence the interviewer(Daniel) acts as the
antagonist and the person being interviewed (Alicia) acts as the protagonist.
‘Music or audio effects from a copyright-free
source may be used, but must be referenced.’
All
music/voice overs/audio effects uses from the web will be referenced during and
throughout the opening sequence at the bottom of the screen. We will be
extremely cautious when using music from different sites especially as some may
not actually be copyright free even though they say that they are. A popular
copyright free website source that we will probably most likely be using is…https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2
The
reason we have chosen to use this site is because it is not only copyright free
but also free to download onto our desktops to use and manipulate whichever way
that we wish to. This eliminates all legal issues associated with stealing people’s
products and abusing intellectual property rights.
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