Individual Narrative Ideas- Planning

Individual Narrative Ideas- Planning

A narrative is essential to any genre of film, it connects a series of imagery together, creating a story line that the audience can follow and become engrossed in...

Initial Idea summary
The thriller opening begins in the bedroom of a girl and the camera angles will be inspired by 'The Conjuring- I'm trying to sleep' http://youtu.be/fEw9RBXwgcA. This is because there will be a variety of camera angles watching and focusing upon the girl sleeping. The use of a variety of camera angles with provide a sense of foreboding I wish to enhanse, as well as suggesting that someone may be watching the girl sleeping in bed. The girl then begins to wake, as she does there is a figure standing over her, watching her sleep. The girl, in a husky, fatiguied voice says 'mum?' questioning her presence. The girl then lazily closes her heavy eyelids only to open them and find that the person watching her sleep was not in fact her mother, but a stranger. My research has provided the understanding that a killer within a thriller film is far more effective if the identiy is hidden. Therefore my killer will be featured masked or conceiled in some way. Once the girl has finally absorbed the seriousness of the situation, through her sheer drowsyness and the dim light of the evening, she begins a prolonged struggle to get away from the stranger. Her struggle is futile and the stranger begins to drag her towards the forest. As he drags her deeper into the canopey of trees, the girls becomes closer to a pond. In an attempt to escape his grip she edges towards the pond and falls in. However the killer fall in also and slowly swims whilst the protagonist frantically splashes. This underwater pond scene will feature a jump cut from the characters being on the edge of the pond, into an underwater struggle filmed in the pool at school. This will provide a realistic portrayal of the characters entering the pond. Whilst in the pond I felt it may prove effective if the female victim should experience flash backs of happier times, whether it be the happy memories of the same forest she is being pursued in etc. This will create the idea of her life flashing before her eyes without providing the audience anything more of the opeing. The abrupt style of ending proviodes a linguring sense of suspence as the audience dont find out the fate of the protagonist. 
I believe that my personal interpretation of a thriller film follows all of the conventional aspects of this genre, for example, the unidentified killer, chase scene, suggestion or glimpse of weapon and a struggling, distressed protagonist. The lack of gore and featured violence makes it acessable to our target audience of 15-17, as well as leaning towards the preferred psychological style of thriller film. The choice of a female victim also follows the main conventions of a typical thriller and was influenced by the results collected from the survey we created.