Group Narrative (Georgiou)

Group Narrative

Everyone in my group wrote up and individual narrative saying what will happen in each scene what types of character, camera shots, editing etc we could use. We looked at the advantages and disadvantages of each idea and created a narrative to use in our thriller clip.

For my individual narrative, an advantage would be i have used different scenes to connect my event. I could use a variety of conventions such as camera shots, settings and lighting to create suspense, surprise and tension. However a disadvantage would be that it would be hard to find a god location for the scene where the girl wakes up in a dark room like a warehouse to film. This would be ineffective because it wouldn't create the suspense needed.

Dipika Sharma

Individual Narrative

Storyline

My storyline is about a girl called Aisha that has two best friends called Angeline and Louise. They do everything together and they are such a close group of friends. Aisha starts receiving strange text messages from a random number and she keeps it quiet for a while. Soon she decides that she would tell her friend Louise about this stalker. Her friend Louise thinks that Aisha (the girl that gets stalked) is joking and lying about the stalker and doesn't believe her what so ever seeing as Aisha is a top joker and jokes about everything! Soon after Aisha goes missing one day and theres a note on Louise's bed saying "Call Aisha's phone or she dies"
Louise then tells her friend Angeline, the clever one out of the three about what happened, but she gets angry because they didn't tell her in the first place!

Characters

The characters in my story are 3 best friends called Angeline Aisha and Louise.

Angeline is the clever one out of the three, she has an answer for everything and she can easily get out of traps and never gets into trouble because she is so clever.
Aisha is the top joker in the group, she jokes about everything and never takes anything seriously. She has no limits to her jokes no matter how extreme they are she jokes about it.
Then there is Louise that's blonde and thinks everythings a joke and laughs about everything as well. Shes always worried about her looks and makeup.

Settings
In our thriller movie we will use a number of different settings and locations throughout depending on what is going on in that particular scene. The first scene will be set at night on a roadside in public, with just a girl walking home on her way back from a club. In this opening scene i will try to use codes and conventions of a thriller film and the key feature we will use is low key lighting. We will also use background music to suit whats going on at that moment. So when the girl starts getting chased the music will turn into fast pace music etc. Other settings we will use in our thriller opening is one of the girls bedrooms, a club, a car park and a forest.

Target Audience
This film will be rated a 15 because it will have scenes of a sexual nature and maybe some use of drugs and violence.
Codes and Conventions
- Low key lighting
- Shock
- Surprise
- Suspense
- Tension
- Stalking
- Chase
- Background music

An advantage to this is it has loads of good codes and convention like low key lighting from the stated settings. A Disadvantage to this is it would be hard to film the scenes without getting unwanted people in the background or noises the will distracted the viewers.

Ayesha Ali
Individual Narrative:

Narrative:

There is a group of 5 children, they're all on vacation and they're all having a sleepover round onee of the five children's house.. it's 9 o clock and they decide to play hide and seek.. one of the children go upstairs and hide in the loft in one of the cupboards and he finds a box that was tapped up with allot of layers, so the child decides to open the box, once hes opened the box he finds a book.. he starts reading the book, and the book tells a story about 5 characters that all get treats and good things happen to them. What the boy does not realise is that the book is based on the 5 friends life.. so in the book as one character gets a gift, one of the friends get a gift and so on.. so all five friends eventually have good things going for them, when suddenly theres a twist.. one friend in the book has to die, so all five friends argue within themselves as they are worried to find out which friend dies.

Characters:

The characters in my story are 5 best friends called, tom, jake, amy, rose and mike. In my story all five friends go to Tom's house for a sleepover. The character who finds the book is Amy, and amy decides to tell her closest friend Rose. In the story, Jake is the very calm, easy going character who takes everything as a joke and is very rarely serious, so in this situation Jake does not really pay much attention until the twist happens. Finally Mike, Mike is the very clever character who looks into everything into detail, he very rarely takes a joke and makes one, once Mike finds out about this book he creates an argument as he wants to tell his parents as this is something serious, but the other characters do not agree.
Setting:
In the thriller movie we will use many different settings ongoing throughout the movie which all relies on the particular scene. The opening scene will first be set out in the playground of the school where all five friends play together everyday, and that is where all characters decide to have a sleepover round Tom's house. Later the scene will be placed at Tom's house where they play hide and seek and find the book. Many other scenes may be included for e.g: Houses, Park, Cafe or school.
Target audience: 

The target audience for this thriller is 15 because many scenes may include a limitless number of violence or blood.
Codes and conventions:
Shock
emotions
chase
enigma
low key lighting
Background music

An advantage of the narrative is that it has a typical setting in the house which is conventional to the thriller. A disadvantage of this is that in one of the setting it would be hard to not get unwanted noises. An example would be wind or even children that are going to play in the park. Another disadvantage to this narrative would be that it is hard to get five people to act it out.

Synopsis



For our final idea i have used different part of each of our individual narratives to create a new idea.

Our final idea is going to be a stalker obsessing over a school girl. One day the girl meets up with her mates to go to school and receives a threatening  text message from a unknown number. The girl ignores it and refuses to tell her friends whats been going on because she thought it was just someone playing a joke on her. Eventually the girls friends notice her weird behaviour and suspect something was up. When they go to find her they realise she is missing and try to find her.

Settings:
There are going to be number of settings throughout our thriller narrative and the first one will be based in a dark room. This is where the victim wakes up and finds herself tied up with rope against a chair. I am going to use low key lighting to hide the surroundings leaving the victim and the audience unaware of the location. This is conventional because it builds suspense. Our second setting is going to be the friends house. The victim goes to collect homework from her mate and then walkes home. This will include high key lighting so the audience can see the surroundings around her. This is conventional because it misleads them into believing that because it is in day light nothing bad is going to happen. The third setting is going to be based in a forest. It will begin to get dark and this is where the victim gets chased by the stalker. This setting is conventional because it is an isolated location that creates a mysterious atmosphere. The trees make it easy to hide people i.e the stalker.

Beginning:
The beginning of our narrative is going to start off with fast editing. The stalker is going to me cutting pictures out of a girl and her friends to highlight to the audience who the victim is. We are going to use iconography such as knifes and make the stalker but his hand and drip the blood on the picture of the victims face. This is conventional because there is pictures of a victimized girl with blood which connotes her death. It then goes onto the girl waking up in a dark abandoned room with her hands and everything tied up. She soon realises what had happened and she begins to panic. This is conventional because the audience can see the victim struggle to escape. It then goes into a flashback to show the audience what had happened the previous day and how she ended up in that predicament. This is conventional because it starts of with an enigma which is the key feature in a the thriller genre. It leaves the audience questioning what happened which builds suspense because the don't know who did it. We are also using low key lighting which is conventional because it hides the settings so the audience are unaware of where they are just like the victim. This is effective because it builds a level of anxiety. The iconography items such as ropes highlights that's she is trapped and someone did this to her. This convention makes the audience curious and gives them a sense of foreboding that something bad is going to happen. 

Middle:
In the flashback, the girl goes to her friends house to collect some homeworks when the stalker follows her. When the girl gets to the house she knocks and her friends leaves her find the homework she wanted. At this time she gets a phone call from an unknown number and answers it. There is no response from the person on the other end of the phone all the girl can hear is the sound of heavy breathing. The girls friend returns so she puts the phone down and ignores it. This is conventional because the camera shots are going to hide the identity of the stalker so the audience are going to be curious to who it is. It also helps build suspense for the audience.

End:
The girl declines the offer when her friend invites her in and decides to take the short route home which means cutting through the forest. As she is walking she hears footsteps snapping the twigs behind her. She turns around and sees that nobody is there and assumes she is being paranoid. She continues walking and recieves another texts message saying im watching you with a picture of her walking. She begings to speed up which turns into a run and the stalker comes out of no where and grabs her. The screen will then face to black. This is conventional because it highlights and ordinary girl being kidnapped and has an isolated location. We are going to used non diegetic sound and superimpose heavy breathing over the scene to build a level of anxiety.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this thriller is 15 because many scenes may include a limitless number of violence or blood.

Advantages to this narrative is that we are have good settings and the iconography items such as ropes and knives which are all conventional however the disadvantages are that it is hard to not get unwanted noices from our locations for example wind will effect our thriller.