planning:developing ideas

Idea 1- chardelle's idea

Narrative: Girl is walking down an alleyway when a ghost child keeps appearing warning her to not walk any further down the alleyway and she is in danger. She gets scared and ends up running through anyway in panic. At the end of the alleyway she is then attacked and stabbed to death by a male antagonist.

Title: Watch out

Sub-genre: psychological, supernatural

Characters: young girl with blonde hair, young ghost girl, male antagonist dressed in black with a black hoodie.

Narrative Structure: Todorov because it has a clear start, middle and end.

MES: Set in alleyway at night with low key lighting to create a thrilling response. Victim is wearing pale pink and natural colours to fit stereotype.  Ghost child is wearing a white, baggy dress with white powder on her face and messy hair to represent that although she is innocent as well as thrilling.  Antagonist is wearing all black and a black hoodie and is holding a knife to fit the stereotype of a criminal.

Advantages of this idea: The storyline is quite simple which should make it easier to put together while being effective. 

Disadvantages of this idea: It may be difficult to present the illusion of the child appearing and re appearing in a realistic but ghostly way.

IDEA 2 – Jordans idea

Narrative: A girl is walking home on an empty street. As she is walking home she finds a child standing alone she asks the child if he is lost or needs help. He turns away and starts to run away. The girl is concerned for the child and chases after him. The child then enters an abandoned house; she then follows him into the house. She then sees the child holding a man’s hand; she cannot see him clearly as the lighting is low key. All she can see is his half his arm and his hand holding the Childs hand. The door behind her then shuts the screen fades to black and the Child says “Did I make you happy daddy” and the last thing you hear is the door lock.

Title: Follow Me.

Sub-Genre: Psychological Thriller.

Characters: Antagonist (Dad), Child Antagonist (Lost Child), Female Victim (Girl Walking Home).

Narrative Structure: Aristotle’s Theory (Beginning, Middle and End).

MES:

Settings: Dark streets, Abandoned Home

Iconography: Child

Costume: Antagonist dark black clothing, Child cute children’s clothing and Female victim Dress that is a light colour e.g. white.

My idea

Narrative:An 11 year old child comes home to find her parents dead and everyone she loves gone. She finds the killer hidden in the house who then tries to kill her. After being chased around the flat she goes out side where she is brutally murdered and pushed of the blocks.  She wakes up to find out it was a dream.

Title: A red dream

Sub-genre: Psychological thriller

Characters: the girl, antagonist, dead mum and dad.

Mes:  Antagonist is wearing a black suit and you cannot see his face very clearly this makes the audience fearful of him.

The girl has blonde hair and is wearing a white dress to fit stereotype of an innocent victim

It is set in a flat dark and the flickering of street lights low key lighting.

Advantages of this idea: the story line intrigues the audience  and leaves them guessing.

Disadvantages of this idea: it will be hard to use a block of flats at night when residents could be sleeping. Finding a girl to play that role might be hard for them to imitate death.

Conclusion: This idea discussion has helped us to understand what we can all agree on as a group that will make us reach our goals of a thriller. we combined our ideas all together to have the final out come of all our thoughts so that its was fair and everyone had an imput. Jordans idea however was the main focus of the thriller because his idea was solid and we could work around it by adding and removing ideas.