Group Narrative - Miss Georgiou

Group Narrative

In my group there are three members including me, my other two group members are Kane and Malu.

Group Member 1 : Bettie Cooper

The narrative I've come up with is the theme of cannibalism. This is when people eat other people. I think this is an unusual narrative an the idea is quite mysterious and disturbing. I think this would surprise people which is an element of thriller. Two characters are walking in the forest when they discover something isn't right and they are not alone. They could be walking their dog and when it runs off and goes missing they have to split up to look for it by themselves. This could be where something starts to go wrong and things start to become suspicious.
My idea of a good setting for my short thriller sequence is in the forest at night time. I think this would be a good setting because it is automatically associated with frightening themes at night time. The iconography that we could use would be masks. This could be to show a hidden identity and make the murderer seem more mysterious and unknown. The use of masks makes sure that the audience cant build a relationship with the characters and it makes them anticipate what they may be like and what their intentions are. A good use of iconography would be weapons to use in my short thriller sequence. These weapons could include things such as a knife, a gun or perhaps a bat. This is because it is conventional to the thriller genre because the antagonist usually uses weapons to assist their attacks but also because it makes the audience feel more frightened and it creates suspense to what the weapons will be used for which always leads to death, pain or brutality.
I think the weather should be cold, muggy and dull. This is because it is conventional to the thriller genre as it immediately gives a negative and cold feel to it, it makes the audience feel as if something bad is about to happen. and it gives them a sense of foreboding.

Advantages:

• Unusual and different narrative, not many people will think of the idea. 
• Forest setting is conventional to the thriller genre as it is isolated and the characters will feel vulnerable in this setting

Disadvantages:

• Hard to film if we were to film the eating action 
• Could be seen to be a bit unrealistic

Group Member 2 : Kane Faulkner-Wild

My Film is going to be located in the forest. It will consist of a group of friends that take a stroll into the forest, they have an argument and one of the characters walks a head of the group (female), what no one noticed is that they was being stalked by two men in white masks. Once the girl is far enough ahead of the group the two stalkers show themselves. The group who are remaining split up to try and find the girl not knowing that she is has now been kidnapped by the two masked men. The group then meet back up after not finding their missing friend, but now there is another missing person in the group.The group decide to stick together and leave the forest assuming the other two must be together. The group then see one of their friends lying dead in the bushes. They then panic and try and run out the forest as they bump into the two men.The mise en scene will be set in the forest.Iconography - The white masks.There will be cinematography, a range of different camera angles to make the killers seem scary.Our target audience will be 15 plus, mainly between 15-20 but aimed at the mass market as it the thriller genre is watched by all ages.

Advantages:

• Conventional to the thriller genre, for example a forest location
• Unidentified killer is conventional to the thriller genre and creates an enigma 

Disadvantages:

• Quite a common and conventional thriller narrative idea
• Audience may feel as if the characters are hard to build relationships with

Group Member 3 : Malu Pillai

In this opening sequence, it would start by showing the setting of where the scene is set by displaying a panning of the forest. The lighting that would be shown would be low key as it would create more suspense and enigma which is conventional to the thriller genre. After the setting is displayed, the frame would then display a slow zooming in into the two characters walking their dog so that we see a rough image of what the two characters look like and hear a typical conversation they would be having to represent their personalities. After this is displayed, it would be cut so immediately the focus is on the dog once it starts to sense that the bad omen is nearby and runs off. As the dog is running off, it will then cut straight into one of the characters point of view angle so that as the audience we can see what they are viewing and can see everything from their perspective to add more suspense. The camera angle will then change into a extreme long shot so that the audience can see the two characters split up and go different directions while we also see the focus on the background showing that they are isolated and have no one to help them adding more tension to the sequence. After the two characters have shown their two different departures it would then change into the dogs point of view perspective and would slowly starting zooming in towards the back of the antagonist once the dog discovers that she is a cannibal and is eating the other characters. At this point we would then show her turning round to face the dogs perspective with her face covered in blood in a slow editing to add more suspense and shock towards the sequence and to add enigma and to display what she has done. After this the sequence would slowly fade out to leave the audience in shock and leave them with an untold enigma.

Advantages:

• Having the dogs POV shot is quite unusual and creates suspense and unfamiliarity as we wouldn't expect the dogs point of view to be shown 

Disadvantages:

• Audience may find the narrative hard to understand at first as they may get easily confused and think the dog ate Kane and was the murderer.

 

Final Group Narrative

Characters:

• Kane
• Bettie
• Kanes friend
• Maisy
• Billy
• Stacey

Our final group narrative that we've come up with is a group of 5 friends walking a dog in the forest. They are all playing with the dog when they throw a ball for the dog , the dog runs after it but doesn't come back.  Kane being the victim and the owner of the dog he takes it into his own hands to make sure everyone splits up to look for Bella. The group split up into all groups of 2 , Bettie & Kane and then Kanes friend, Maisy, Billy and Stacey. From a POV shot one of the friends can see kane of the floor and Bettie kneeling down beside him however it is her back so they cant see her face. They start to call Bettie and when she doesnt answer they start to get suspicious, as they slowley walk over to Bettie this is a part where we will add in tense music and build up the suspence. As the friends reaches Bettie and goes to tap her shoulder, Bettie sharply turns round in a close up shot looking possesed this is a part which will make the audience jump. The friend screams and runs as fast as they can. They run around the forest rapidly trying to find their other friends. This is the beginning of a chase scene between the friends and Bettie the antagonist which is conventional to the thriller genre. Once all the friends find eachother they are panicking and trying to figure out what to do and how to escape the forest whilst avoiding Bettie. Whilst this is happening you can see Bettie lurking in the trees as if she is planning her own plan on how to kill and eat the rest of her friends. The friends decide they need to escape as quick as possible, stick together and run as fast as they can out of the forest. As they run they spot Bettie standing in their path infront of them, this scares then and they automatically run in a different direction Bettie slowly walks behind them, the seuqnece will end here on a cliffhanger and an enigmas as we don't know whether the friends escape or become the next villians on Betties list.

Tzvetan Todorov Theory

We have decided that the final narrative of our thriller sequence falls into Todorv's theory. Todorov's theory is that all films follow the same pattern. This pattern is when the film goes through stages of equilibrium and disequilibrium; this means balanced and unbalanced. For example a film starts of balanced until there is disruption which causes disequilibrium. By the end of the film the disruption has to be resolved so that everything is balanced again and makes it end with an equilibrium state. This means the film should start and end with everything how it should be. We think that our narrative idea falls into Todorov's theory because it starts with equilibrium and then disruption occurs which causes the unbalance in our narrative. However the only disadvantage of our narrative falling into this theory is that because our short sequence ends on a cliff hanger we don't get to balance then end of the sequence and create the final state of equilibrium.