Planning Initial Ideas

Planning Initial ideas

Narrative:
A man with psychological issues comes across a theatre and watches a group of ballerinas rehearsing. He then sees one particular girl who he then gets really obsessed with bue to the fact that she looks like a former fiance he loved that left him. He returns to the theatre to watch and follow the ballerina. After setting up a shrine dedicated to her and wanting her he then decides to kidnap her and keep her prisoner in his home to torture her.

Title: Silent Audience

Sub-Genre: Psychological Thriller

Characters:
Antagonist- Crazy Man

Victim- Ballerina

Extras- Other Ballerinas

Narrative Structure:
Aristotle & Barthes

 
Mes En Scene:

- Location: Theatre and House.

- Iconography: Pictures and frames, Lockett, Rope, Knife
 and candles

- Costume of characters:

Protagonist: Ballerina- Leotard and ballet pumps

Antagonist: Crazy man- Dark clothing (trench coat, trousers, dark shoes

Lighting: Natural lighting

Advantages:This is quite conventional to the thriller genre as it includes themes such as Love/ Obsession, Kidnapping and has quite a clear narrative structure.

Dis-Advantages: Being allowed or gaining permission to work within the locations chosen at certain times.

　

                                                                Khanh’s Idea:

 

Narrative: A young women moves to her new home to live on her own, one night she heard her doorbell rings, she went to open the door and see a little girl crying outside her door. She then feels sympathy and adopts the girl and she claimed that her mother was trying to kill her and doesn’t have any related family members. The little girl appears to have a tormented mind-set, she claimed to have an invisible friend and draws a lot of disturbing pictures about horrific killing and extreme violent pictures. One night, the women had a dream that flash back her memories when she was young teenager and was pregnant, she was too scared to do abortion so she gave birth to the child, chocked the child to death and left the child in the public toilet. And now her nightmares are becoming more concern as everything the child said about what her mother did to her was exactly the same thing as what she did. The child appears to be a spirit of the women’s child and came back to torture her for her horrific actions she did in her past.

2. Title: ‘’The Unborn’’

3. Sub-genre: Psychological Thriller

4. Characters: Evil child, female victim

5. Narrative structure: Aristotle & Barthes

6. MES:

- Location: House, park, public toilet.

- Iconography: Blood, Knife, Colour pencils, Papers…

- Costume of characters:

Evil Child: White costume with black eye make-up.

Female Victim: Bright colours clothing.

- Lighting: Low-key lighting, background lighting, top and under lighting.

- Body language of key characters:

Evil Child: small, physically weak, mysterious, and confident.

Female Victim: quite small and short, clueless, innocent, physically wear and vulnerable.

7. Advantages of this idea: Conventional to psychological thriller, the idea of the evil can help to manipulate the audience and create fear and also have clear narrative structure for the viewers to be understood.

8. Disadvantages of this idea: May not have the permissions to for the child to act as the devil character and the child might not know how to act. Might be time consuming because the child might be messing around and not taking filming seriously.



Abdullah Idea
1. Narrative: a couple that cannot conceive a child and they wants to adopt a child. The couple with their bad fortune visit a fortune teller to read their destiny and to see if they can have a child of their own one day or they will have to go ahead with their plan to adopt. The fortune teller is petrified and taken back by the couples impending destiny. The fortune teller warns the couple that there is darkness that will soon to occur. The couple leave unmoved by the fortune teller’s advice.

Title: Restless

Sub-Genre: Psychological Thriller

Characters:
Protagonist(s): Man and Woman (The couple)

Antagonist(s): Killer and Child

Narrative Structure:
Aristotle & Barthes

Mes En Scene

Location: House.

Iconography: Knife and blood

Lighting: Natural lighting


Advantages:This is conventional to the thriller genre because it is set within the home and is quite covenient.

Dis-Advantages: Working with a child can be quite difficult in terms of the acting, and using a knife around the child without them being affected in a certain way.