2. TheOverview
Sub-genre: PsychologicalThriller
A young girl experiences a murder of a close family member and
its affecting every aspect of her life. Once she starts seeing things
and having flashbacks back to the horrifying night where
everything changes for her.The young girl becomes obsessed with
trying to find the killer; from recording news bulletins to keeping a
scrapbook full of newspaper clippings about them. She wants
revenge, but something is trying to stop her.
The three main themes featuring in our film opening are:
Perception
Mind
Death
3. Interior
Castlefield house – Bedroom, Entrance,
Kitchen
Exterior
Outside of the house
At the door of the house.
Permissions
All of our planned locations have been
authourised.
Locations
4. Structure
• We planned out the structure of our opening scene using a
storyboard
• Beginning , Middle , End
Beginning:
• Shots outside the house , inside the house.
• Causes suspense on what is going to happen.
• Highlights the atmosphere
Middle:
• Shots in the house , different angles and shots of the young girl
• Reveal to the audience her being traumatized (with the props)
• Flash backs
End:
• The young girl hallucinates at the door not knowing if it’s the killer
or her friend.
Audience would think
• Why she is traumatized?
• What caused her hallucinating?
• Why are there lots of newspapers everywhere?
5. Representation:
Character
Character 1:
Aleena (Ayesha) 18 year old girl suffering with a mental illness and
is traumatized due to a past experience which has made her the
way she is now. Protagonist of the film.
Character 2:
Villain (Faz) – Male character in the film who is inAleena's flash
backs. He commits the murder ofAleena's sister.
Character 3:
Ella (Nicola) Friend who is concerned about Aleena. She discovers
a something that gives her an idea about why she is traumatized.
6. How?
Mise enScene
Settings: Place
• Castlefield house- most will be filmed inside the house
• A Couple shots outside in the beginning of the opening scene to
display to the audience where it is set and the atmosphere of the
scene = quiet, lonely etc...
Settings:Time
• Late afternoon – a girl on her own , late afternoon illustrating
alienation from the world and the people around her.
7. Props:
Throughout the scene we will use a variety of props to make it
look as realistic as possible.
Most props will have a meaning behind it such as:
Empty boxes of medicine
Newspapers
Glass
Clothes(scattered everywhere on the floor)
Knife
and more...
Mise en Scene
8. Mise enScene
Lighting:
Low key lighting illustrating atmosphere and emotion throughout
the character.
Reveals to the audience that throughout the scene it will be
negative
9. How ?
Camerawork
Firstly we are going to use a mid-shot angle of a hooded figure but this
is also a pov shot of what Ayesha (our main character) sees as she opens
the door.
Then we have a over the shoulder shot to show where our character is
positioned next to what she sees.
Also we will use a close up of our villains face in a hooded figure , leads
to a sense of creepiness about him to make him look intimidating and
scary to the audience.
After this we will use another close up of Ayesha's face to capture the
fear.
These different shots are used for different effects for the audience and
to create suspension in different ways as possible,A pov shot is
effective for example as it makes the audience feel as if their there
witnessing the events themselves as if they are there.
Close ups are going to be a major contributor to our opening so we can
capture the horror on our character's face when she is seeing all these
flashbacks.
10. Sound
Also we have started thinking about sound too and how we will
need to use diegetic sound effects of knocking on the door for
example but also eerie non diegetic music added to create a tense
and eerie mood.
We will change the non-diegetic music depending on what will be
going on in the scene.We all thought that if I played the piano this
would be effective to add into our piece and we are going to
demonstrate with different sounds to see which one fits the best.
But for flashbacks sequences we are going to use a series of pre-
recorded sounds of screams and diegetic clashes and eerie noises to
build up suspension.
11. Influences
As a team we had many influences not just for ideas but actual film
openings from these different films.
Shutter Island is an example of a psychological thriller film. It's a film
that has been known to fool and confuse it's audience.The opening
scene to this film very subtly gives little hints at the character (Leonardo
DiCaprio) has something wrong as he is seen panting in front of the
mirror abruptly splashing his face. Once watched the film, this opening
scene plays an important part as the audience realise how the beginning
hinted that something was wrong with him from the start. So we
wanted to use this in our opening.
Other films such as 'Regression', 'Gone Girl' and "The Sixth Sense' also
influenced us in making our film opening, using themes such as
perception, mystery, death and mind.
Grips audience gets them involved in trying to figure out what is wrong
with the main character, as of her unusual behavior throughout the film.
Audience follow aThrill-seeking adventure to find the murderer and
leave Aleena's mind at rest.
