Individual ideas for a narative-Miss Georgiou

 

 

Narrative Ideas

 

 

My task in media studies is to create a thriller trailer but to do this I will need ideas especially as I do not have any experience with film making or editing. We as a class have been looking at a few films and i myself have now tries to watch more thrillers to gain ideas of things that have worked well in a film or a scene from a film that we could incorporate into our own trailers. The main things that I have been looking at are the cinematography, the setting, The diegetic and non-diegetic sound, the lighting and the theme of the films. From doing this research at home and at school I have found several things from different films I would like to incorporate into my trailer.

 

Inspirations:

 

•  Firstly, I wanted to find some inspiration for a location of my trailer and I wanted to find a film which used an abandoned and eerie element throughout the film, this meant finding a good example of an abandoned location. A film that I thought pulled this of very well was "Strangers" the setting for the majority of the film is an abandoned log cabin this is good because it has the homely feel of the house which the audience can relate to, but it also has an abandoned and excluded feel that I want to replicate in my trailer.
• Another inspiration of mine is "Saw V" because I like how the characters are trapped in run down buildings filled with dangerous traps dirt and blood. I like how in the beginning of the film the five characters are being held by chains this makes them seem like helpless victims which is conventional in thrillers.
• In a variety of thriller films I have seen the use of low key lighting  used which is conventional in thriller films and is often used to make tension and suspense.
• I have also noticed a camera angle in "Saw V" and other films that I would like to use which is a canted angle shot this is used when there is wild things happening on screen and is used to keep the audience in suspense.
• Like in "The Human Centipede" I would Like to use a mix of different shot speed like when the girl is running away then locks herself in the room and suddenly the music gets slower as the doctor gets closer and closer to her. The creates suspense which is conventional to thrillers.

My Narrative Idea:

 

 

Their are a group of people who are dared to spend the night in and old abandoned house, however there is actually a maniac who lives in the house who lock the group in and slowly hunts them down one by one. Using all the techniques that I have mentioned, about the group of people who are trapped in an abandoned building in the middle of nowhere at night. This all creates the conventions typical in a thriller genre, in my film I would also like to attempt to break the 180 rule which has been done in "Psycho" which I would like to replicate, this would give a 360 view of the setting which will draw the audience in and help them empathise with the characters.

By Alexander Flanagan