Planning - Miss Begum: Initial ideas

Initial Ideas

When we first met up as a group we had a wide range of ideas on what should our film consist off this includes different narrative structures and different themes and sub genres. Below are our initial ideas of what we had thought off.

 Idea 1 - Shakil

Narrative: There are two friends on a night out, enjoying themselves as it is set in the weekend. Alternatively, the theme that is set is in during Halloween therefore the audience will be expecting some sort of horror, physiological, spirit acts that will be taken place. As the story progresses, the two characters will be chased obliviously by a ghostly figure. This figure the chases them as the two victims get chased into their home. Eventually the mysterious spiritual ghost disappears for a significant amount of time. As this progresses, the two victims will be experiencing paranormal dramas in their house and as the victim goes to check out where the noises were coming from, he then encounters to see his friends dead, laying on the couch. A reaction shot will be set a numerous amount of times within this narrative. The spiritual ghost then poses victim 2 and takes control and goes out for Halloween as nobody is aware of his spiritual state and form.

Title: The Unseen

Sub-Genre: Physiological/Horror

Characters: Antagonists, victim, side-kick

Themes: Halloween, Possession, Murder, Mystery

Narrative Structure:
The two friends are set at the road, on their way home from a great night as they experience horror experiences and gets chased by spirits
Signs of moving items in the house, glasses collapses to the floor, tv turns on and off
The spirit takes control of the victim and the victim is possessed and goes out for Halloween, trick or treating without the people knowing of his awareness.

Sound: Dynamic, off-screen sound

Idea 2 - Baris

Narrative male character is on the search to find out who has killed his girlfriends’ parents, he request help from his friends, however they are also been murdered one by one through the process of finding the murderer. So eventually the boyfriend is left by himself, but he doesn’t give up, one day he identifies a weapon in his girlfriends’ bag covered in blood and also images taken from her phone of his friend’s deaths possibly before the police came. One day he follows her girlfriend to her house, and on the way she begins to act and behaviour unusual, when she spots her boyfriend following her, she scream and running’s away, but she drops her bag. When the boyfriend searches through the bag, he finds a picture of his girlfriend and a girls which looks just like his girlfriend (possibly her twin). He runs to her girlfriend’s house, and shows her the picture. She is shocked that he has found out and begins to explain the whole story, whereas his girlfriend had an identical twin but she was the good one and her twin was the evil one; since when her twin was born with a mental problem she was placed in a mental hospital for several years. Several year after, she escaped and come back to get revenge from her family by murdering them one by one. However the evil twin doesn’t harm the good twins’ boyfriend since she has falling in love with him, without him knowing. One day, the boyfriend and girlfriend is kidnapped by the evil twin, the boyfriend finds a gun and is in the middle to shot one of the twins by since they are identical the same, he can’t decide which one is the evil one since they are both saying the same thing.

Sub-genre:  Crime – The evil twin murders her parents and her good twin’s boyfriend’s friends Drama – The boyfriend is in the middle of both of the twins and he must shot the evil one

Themes: Murder – The evil twin murders her parents first and then her good twins boyfriend’s friends. Revenge – The evil twin gets her revenge from her parents since they placed her into a mental hospital Good vs Evil – Both of the twins begin to fight, at the end

Character: Jack – Boyfriend, 21 - Protagonist·         Elisabeth – Good Twin, 20 - Victim·         Scarlett – Evil Twin, 20 - Antagonist

Narrative Structure am looking forward to use Aristotle’s narrative structure since it will allow me to introduce the main characters and their roles; including firstly the boyfriend which is the protagonist and his girlfriend is the victim, secondly I will then introduce the evil twin towards the middle so that it can confuse the audience and give them time until the end to solve the narrative.

Mise En Scene·        

Iconography: The murder weapon, the image of the twins·         

Lighting: Top, Low-Key·        

Editing: Reaction Shot, Shot Reverse Shot, Fade to Black·         

Sound: Off Screen, Non-Diegetic·         

Cinematography: Long Shot, Two Shot

Title: ‘My TWIN’ or ‘Scarlett’ is going to be my title - The typography is going to be hand-written or using a similar font style, the colour is going to be in-between bright and dark red.

Advantages for choosing this idea

The main advantage will be that the female character will be acting to different roles; but this will take a longer time since the female character would have to leave one role and act the another one.

The evil twin character will allow to create suspense and tension for the audience to respond for. Potential problems and how you plan to overcome them

There may not be parents available to be used for the twins, if I can’t find the parents; I would then just use a picture from the internet and edit that.

A suitable murder weapon might be hard to find or would be expensive to purchase, if I can’t find a murder weapon; I could just show only the denotation of the weapon.

Doing the editing my take time and also getting it in the correct place as well, so there would be more time needed to spend on the editing to get it in the correct position

Idea 3: Elliot Kinkead

Title: Where she lived

Narrative: The antagonist storms a house on a secluded street. His aims was to kidnap someone however when he tries to find the victim. He can’t find the would-be victim moreover the only thing he finds was a doll that was left by the would-be the victim that is also possessed by evil spirit which kills him. Also during the last part of the opening scene there is also flashbacks showing how she managed to leave the trap in the house.

Sub-Genre (Themes) : Psychological, Supernatural

Theory: The theory that I’m planning to use Barthes Semiotics theory  since they would be connotaions

Characters 

Antagonist: The antagonist/victim would be male and wearing dark clothing and he coverd his face with an baraclava it looked like he was planning to murder someone or steal however this attemped failed. At the end of the opening seen the character would be shocked as well as weak and that he would proberley want to run away.
The possessed: Small Female blood over her face Innocent Clothing. She is an possesed woman who recently an mother of two however something happen to her.We would tried to use a lot of make-up with this character since she encounter severe injuries to her face while this was happening.
Narrative Structure: I want the narrative to be unclear at the beginning of the opening scene however towards the end its more clear what's happening during the scene.

Mise on Scène

The setting will take place in a house preferably not much stuff inside the house. However most of the opening scene will take place outside the house. Preferably the film should take place on a cul-de-sac. The main Iconography will be the doll with blood over it to show what the previous occupier left behind. Costumes several costumes will be needed for my opening. The antagonist would be wearing dark clothing with an balaclava covering his face at the end the of the scene we will be using fake/theatrical blood to show that he’s dead. The Possessed person would be wearing an t-shirt however mostly white with a lot of blood covering her head to show something happened. The body language and facial expressions the antagonist/victim will have an angry focused expression however at the end of the scene he would be surprised because of what has happened. The possessed won’t have much facial expression since the camera will be focusing on the victim however the body language will show that that she is about fight someone.

Advantages

Most of the film takes place in a house and we don’t need to visit other places to film. This film is a bit different compared to most other thrillers since there are is repetition of scenes that you will see in that you see in other thrillers. An example would be that there is no running scenes since most films have them I want to try something different

Disadvantages

There are several disadvantages to my idea. The film could be consider as a niche because of the narrative. Another problem I would face that we need to find suitable building to film the opening. We also need several props for the film also the film maybe too confusing or too simple depending when we film and edit it therefore I should revise the narrative before starting to film.

Since this is not a fully developed idea I would need more time to add more information including if I need to change the narrative or that I should change what the characters could wear.

Since this is not a fully developed idea I would need more time to add more information including if I need to change the narrative or that I should change what the characters could wear.

Conclusion

Since we had different ideas we came as a group and tried to see what idea was the best to go with. all of them would need to significant amount of change before would try making a storyboard or even a script for it. Using two ideas would require a large amount of changes off someone ideas however we do now have a basis for an idea which is plausible for our final opening scene which incorporate all three of our ideas together. Discussing our initial ideas helped us on how we should film the opening scene and what props, characters we need as well as trying to develop an idea that would work.