Developing Ideas

There were 4 choices my film group had to put in our thriller. All the Ideas were based on a psychological element.

Idea 1:

NARRATIVE: A young lady moves Into her new house, to live on her own. One night, her doorbell rings. When she opens the door shes sees a little abadoned girl, she shows sympathy and later adopts her. The little girl tells the lady that her mother attempted to murder her and she has no other family memebers that she knows of. The little girl seems to have a mind set that is tormented. The girl also says she has a friend that is invisible and draws lot of pictures that has disturbing content of horrific, gruesome killing and extrme violent pictures, this horrifies the young lady.  One night, the young lady has a dream of a flashback memeroy when she was pregnant, she was too afraid to do the abortion so she gaver birth to the child in a toilet, but afterwards she chokes the child to death and leaves in the toilet. Since that night, the young lady's dreams become more horrifiying and realistic with what the child said about her mother, for she did the same thing as the little's girl mother. She then realises that the child appears to be the older sprit of the child she gave to and murdered and has come back to haunt her.

Title: "The Unborn"

Sub-genre: Psychological thriller

Characters: Evil child, female victim

Narrative Structure: Aristotle and Barthes

MES:

Location: House, park, pubilc toilet.
Iconography: Blood, Knife, Colur Pencils, Papers
Costume of characters: White costume with black eyes make-up for the evil child
                                       Bright colours clothing for the female victim(young lady)

Lighting: Lowkey lighting, background lighting, top and under lighting.
Body language of key characters:
Evil child: small, physically weak, mysterious and confident.
Female victim: Quite small and short, clueless, Innocent, physically wear and vulnerable.

Advantage of this Idea: Conventional to a thriller taht is psychological. The Idea of evil can be used to manipulate the audience and create fear and also have clear narrative structure so that the viewers can understand.

Disadavntage of this Idea: However, we may not receive allowance for a child to act as a evil child and it would be difficult for a child to put themself in a evil portrayal. Also, the child might be mentally Immature for that role.


Idea 2:

Narrative: A couple cannot give birth to a child of their own. So they try to adopt a child Instead. The couple run into a fortune teller, who tells them their destiny and is petrified by it saying a great danger is entering into their lives. But the couple are not fazed by the fortune teller and they are only more determined to adopt a child. The couple goes to a home for orphaned children, the wife spots a small and lonely child in a corner, she shows motherly sympathy to the child and wants to adopt him but the father is not fully convinced, the wife Insists, so they adopt the child with the father still in 2 minds. As soon as the child moves in with the couple conflict occurs between them their pet dog runs away and never returns. Suddenly, the father has an unexpected and untimely death,afterwards the small child manages to torture and kill the wife, he could have doine the sam toi the husband.

Title: Restless

Sub-genre: Psychological

Characters: Child(demented, demon), Female victim, Father/Husband

Narrative structure: Propp or Todorov

MES:
          .Location-Family house
          . Iconography blood knife which is used to kill
          . Costume the child is made to look demented and the mother costume of a typical victim
            (simple clothing light
          .Dark lighting (setting)

Advantage of this Idea: It is very simple and it will be easy to get a child female victim.

Disadvantage of this Idea:
                                          . Difficult getting a child to play that role
                                           . Might not get allowance to film in a children's home
                                           . Difficult to find a person who can play a fortune teller really well.


Idea 3:

Narrative:  People are studying at a library. All of a suden the electricity goes off. Murders take place but it is not yet known until the light come back on. There is lots of screaming and running for the entrance of the library is locked. In the process, more murders occur until there are six people left. Who are the murderers? Three people turn out to be the murders. One is the typical looking anatagonist. Another is a female who looks seducive another is a young smart looking boy who looks lie he has a silent personality. Fortunately, the 3 protagonists manged to stay alive as the police intervene and kill the 3 murderers in self-defence.

Title: Too Silent

Sub genre: Crime

Characters: 14 year old boy, Seductive blondie, Typical man looking anatagonist

Narrative structure: Todorov

MES:
         Location: Library
         Iconography:Knife, Gun, Phone
         Costume: Black suit for the typical male anatagonist. Red shirt for the female antagonist to                        make her look more seductive. Dark coulured unifrom for the young boy who is also    an antagonist .

Advantage of this Idea; The charcters will be teenagers, who are mentally and physical Immature to play the characters.

Diadvantage of this Idea:  We might not be granted permision to film on library premisis actors might lack commitment to this task.

We will most likely follow Ken's Idea because the narrative is the most understanding and the location will be more acessible than for the other thriller Ideas.

This has taught me to consider the advantages, but more Importantly the disadvantages of an Idea taht comes to my mind.