Planning - Mrs Qunilan: Final Idea

Planning - Mrs Qunilan: Final Idea

FINIAL IDEA.

After me and our group talked about our initial ideas we planned out our final idea. We all had many different ideas on what we should do for our final project. We managed to group most of our ideas into a new narrative for the opening scene. This was different from our initial ideas since most of these were brand new ideas that we all thought off since combining all of our existing ideas wouldn't work.

Title:  The Unseen

Narrative: 

During Halloween, an man stays up for the night to watch a late night film. During the film the person will hear sounds followed by a child at the door after giving the child some sweets there is another knock on the door and there is a note on the floor saying trick or treat then the main character bins the note however there is another knock at the door and there is another note along with blood and a mask saying "Trick or Treat" after locking all the windows and checking if nobody was in the house the main character goes back to the living room, however, the antagonist wearing a black hoody or cloak. This is where the film would end.

Narrative structure: 

The narrative structure we are using in the film would be Barthes. This is because it more suitable for our narrative. Because of several elements within the film such as the pumpkin at the beginning of the opening. The audience needs to understand when the film is set in. In this case, our film will be set during Halloween and the use of popcorn tells the audience that the main character will be watching a film.

Subgenres

• Psychological
• Mystery 

Characters

Victim: White T-Shirt, Tracksuit bottom, 

Child: Wearing a scary Halloween costume.

Antagonist: Wearing a black hoodie or cloak and wearing a mask to hide is identity.

Mise on Scène

Setting: The opening scene takes place in a flat. And will be filmed mostly in the living room and in the kitchen.

Iconography: The window since it keeps being opened and mask since this is what on the note and was also worn by the antagonist.

Sound: We are planning to have diegetic and non-diegetic sounds as well as off-screen sound.

Editing:  we are planning to use in the opening scene Straight Cut Jump Cut, Montage and Fate to black

Lighting: High Key Lighting (at some points during the film) and Top Key Lighting. Low key lighting and they maybe use of backlighting if possible.

Cinematography: We are planing to use various shots this includes Long shot, Medium shot, reaction shot and close up

Hair, Costume and Makeup: The Victim would be wearing a white shirt with a tracksuit bottom. The kid who is trick or treating would be wearing a scary costume since it's Halloween and he's trick or treating. And the Antagonist would be wearing dark clothes with a mask covering his face.

Body Language and Facial expression: The victim would be relaxed at the beginning however throughout the film he would be tenser by the end he would be in shock since he was invaded by the antagonist. Since the antagonist would be wearing a mask we wouldn't be able to see his reaction. However, his body language would be straight and probably from the audience perspective they would think he about to do something

Film Influences: 

The reason why these films influenced our final idea is because they had conventional openings however these openings were unique to thrillers compared to other thrillers. Baris and I like the opening scene for scream since it went straight into some action compared to other films where it would build it up.

• Halloween (1978)
• Se7en (1995)
• Scream 1 (1996)

What are the main advantages of the final idea

• This was a better idea compared to all of our initial ideas, therefore, we able to discuss the new film in detail and how it could look and what can we do to improve our final idea.
• We are using conventional iconography however the narrative is not conventional however we are trying to make it as unique as possible.
• There is less narrative so that the audience will have limited understanding what's happening during the opening scene/
• Also, we won't scenes that we see most thriller openings, for example, the chase scene since its overused most of the time.
• We would be able to use a large variety of shots and different cinematography techniques.
• We would also able to use several different editing techniques such as fade to black and jump cuts.

Disadvantages of the final idea.

• Requires several props that we need to get as soon as possible
• We are using low key lighting during parts of the film and it makes it hard to capture a reaction shot this makes the film difficult to shoot so we may need to re-film that scene if does not work.
• We are using iconography to try to get a sense a fear into the audience however this may take the time to get right with how we did the narrative.
• We only have a limited to film this since we have film on the weekends and some days during the week. Also, we need to film this in the dark.
•  There are technical aspects as well since we need to get the tv to show a movie this could be done via HDMI and a laptop.
• They would be also a lot editing involved since it would be recording a lot of clips that we would need to edit.

Is the film conventional with the thriller genre?

We are trying to be conventional to the thriller genre. we watched many classic thrillers like scream 1 and Halloween and this final idea is based on the film opening. We like about most old thrillers the use of editing and cinematography like reaction shots, the use of montages and the fast pace editing which made the film to one of few best thrillers around. we used those ideas however our narrative is different and way our group planned it makes the film unique, however, conventional with the thriller genre.

Representation of themes in the film.

Mystery-Since the audience will have a limited understanding of what's going on until towards the end because of the narrative.

Psychological- Limited understanding also we see the main character acting peculiar during the opening scene.

What reactions are we expecting our audience could get.

At the beginning of the film we try to make the film as relaxed as possible, however, the film will start to build up tension throughout the film. The main reaction we are expecting would be the surprise and shock as well. The story is building suspense throughout the main opening and we trying to the make the film tense as well and we want to see shock at the end. We also using a cliffhanger to build suspense that what could happen next.

Conclusion

The aim of our film is to create suspense throughout the film and to build up to it. The use of iconography film will help to make the audience tenser and also foreshadow what could happen next. The use of mise on sense at the beginning could help to lull the audience into a false sense of security since what's going on. we also need to amend the final idea if we think that some parts of a film might not work and changing it could help the film however the end product of the opening scene should be tense, however, creates suspense as well.