Proposal Re-presentation

Genre
Our film’s genre is psychological thriller, examples from this genre include Se7en, Rear Window and Silence Of The Lambs which focus on creating fear through tension as opposed to blood and gore.

Opening Sequence

It is dawn. There is a girl with blood on her in the middle of the room on a chair with a dead body at her feet. She is rocking slightly to show that she is thinking hard. We would introduce this scene with slow close up tilts and tracks along the body, her hands, the chair, her face etc whilst showing the titles in the area of space (e.g. first title of the back of the head of the dead body). About half way through the mood will suddenly change and she will get up suddenly. She will become very ‘matter of fact’ about how she is going to dispose of the body (kick the body to see if its dead get bin bags etc). The sequence could end with a phone call to a friend, on the line "I need your help."

Outline of the film
The dead body is a character who she knows but isn’t really connected to, he gets drunk and violent at her home, and she kills him in self defence. She’s up all night trying to figure out what to do. OPENING SEQUENCE. The rest of the film is about how trying to hide the body and the secret leads to her killing others.

After some clarification of what lead up to the event (in the sequence) this proposal was signed off - which is good as we are now able to start working out practicalities of shooting and start composing a storyboard for our upcoming test shoot.

Proposal and Feedback

 Using our blog as a visual aid, we proposed our idea to the group and gave out the following handout to summarise:

Feedback:

+ Arty elements

+ Idea of the morning after

Character Issues:

- What was her motive - is she crazy?

- Who is the antagonist?

- Idea of her doing normal things didn't go down well - as it seemed like she had no reaction

Narrative issues:

- Unclear on the rest of the film and the sequence of events

- Will there be an investigation?

- When is the body revealed?

Practical issues:

- Room issues

- Rethink choice of male actor

We're re-presenting on Friday, periods 4 and 5!!! This is because our idea seemed to vague and whilst they liked the general idea/style of it - the plot details and action codes needed to be more specfic.

Conventions and signifiers of the Thriller Genre

Character Profile

Dawn
-18 years old
-Lives with 3 housemates in London
-Is a studying English at university
-Is quite a structured logical person
-Enjoys socialising and going out
-Hopes to be a teacher
-Is quite naive and optimistic (begins to change in film)
-This killing starts the ball rolling on a bad sequence of events - which is the rest of the film

Shots of Potential location

Target Audience

Our target audience for this film would be:

- People who enjoy and watch psychological thrillers (and other  thrillers)

- Students who are a similar age to the main protagonist

- Young women

- British film fans

- Slightly alternative audiences (who like something local, new and innovative as an antidote to high budget blockbusters)

Typical murderers/villains in Thrillers

Some typical traits or conventions of a killer in the thriller genre include:

-Older white male

-Very clever but not very strong

-Bit psychotic making them scary and creepy

-Pre-meditate murder with every, detail planning, extremely carefully - taking everything into account

-Identity not fully exposed (shadows, enigma, sometimes revealed near the end)

-Kill for pleasure, revenge or other motives

-Cut off from society or isolated

We would like to break these stereotypes by having a murderer who is:

-Young female student

-Spur of the moment murder, without thinking about consequences or what to do with the body

-Quite a normal everyday member of society (friends, flat, job)

-Introduced like any other character, with information about lifestyle (not shadows or hidden faces)