2. Narrative Outline
There is a man sitting in his chair and he is drinking whiskey.
He is wearing a dressing gown and slippers, looking very cosy
in his home.
He gets up and shuts the curtains before walking up stairs and
opening his bedroom door.
There is a figure on his bed which we do not see. You see the
man’s face for the first time. He starts playing a song on his
record player and whilst the song is playing, we hear huge
screams. We do not see what is happening in the room.
After, he walks out of his room and wipes his hands on a towel
which he drops on the floor. You then see that the towel had
blood on.
He walks downstairs and picks up his whiskey. He goes into the
kitchen where he takes off his dressing gown and you see he is
wearing a sharp suit and tie.
3. Ideas, Messages and
Themes
The idea of the film is that you do not believe what you
see. You see that he is comfy and drinking in ‘his’
living room before going upstairs but when he goes
back downstairs and takes off the dressing gown it is
very shocking because nobody really understands
what is going on.
It is intended to make the audience ask lots of
questions which may potentially be answered at a later
point in the film (but not during the opening).
4. Target Audience
We are aiming our film at the most common Thriller
target audience - young adults and teenagers.
We are going to make sure that we appeal to our
target audience by avoiding making it too complicated.
However, it is going to have a certain level of
complexity because in order to follow the conventions
of a Thriller film we need to keep them asking
questions.
It is also going to have ideas that may appeal to
teenagers, such as murder or other things that
obviously they don’t agree with but would be
interested to watch.
5. Practical Details
We are planning on filming our opening intensively
after school over the course of one week.
We are going to film in James’ house.
We are using HD video recorder as well as a tripod
and dolly wheels to film our opening.
There are going to be few special effects in our film.
We are contemplating doing a special camera shot
which will require editing in order to work but we need
to test it first!
We may find that we do not have enough time to film
within the week or struggle to find a time when we can
all film. If this is the case we will look at filming over a
weekend.
6. Conventions
We will use camera shots like; tracking shots, point of
view, over the shoulder, close up, extreme close up
and low angle shot. These will help establish what is
going on and show the intense and creepy
atmosphere, creating a mysterious mood.
We will use low key lighting because this is a common
convention in thriller films and is dark and eery.
We will use a song that contrast with the mood, it will
be a red herring as it will make the audience think that
nothing bad is about to happen. The rest of the film will
be silent throughout but we will enhance the diegetic
sound.
7. Conventions
We will use camera shots like; tracking shots, point of
view, over the shoulder, close up, extreme close up
and low angle shot. These will help establish what is
going on and show the intense and creepy
atmosphere, creating a mysterious mood.
We will use low key lighting because this is a common
convention in thriller films and is dark and eery.
We will use a song that contrast with the mood, it will
be a red herring as it will make the audience think that
nothing bad is about to happen. The rest of the film will
be silent throughout but we will enhance the diegetic
sound.
