Individual Narrative Ideas - Miss Georgiou

A Narrative is a media term for spoken or written account of connected events which create a story. Narratives are very crucial to films as they have different elements to a story which are organised to make a meaningful story.

Possible Titles : Human Switch, Switched Off, Humanity Off, Emotions Off

Narrative : My own narrative is about a very disturbed, troubled boy who is laying on the floor with a mask beside him on the road and is having flashbacks of events of his previous life.  Meanwhile two girls walk down the pavement besides him after coming back from a night out. One of the girls notice the boy on the road and checks on him to see if he's ok, but little does she know that he's a psycho. When she comes closer and stands over him, the boy finally wakes up from his flashbacks and then attacks her ( The audience wouldn't see the event). The other friend hears her friend scream and looks back to see that her friend is on the floor dead, she eventually starts to run away from the scene and goes through a forest but then the boys dark figure(wearing a mask) stands in her way to stop her.

Characters : two protagonist's ( Girls ) , 1 antagonist ( Male )
Location : Forest, Road
Iconography : Mask
Make up & costume - Fake Blood, White pupil contact lenses , girls are wearing out-going clothes, Antagonist wears normal ragged clothes.



The mise-en-scene I would use firstly is costumes. The costumes which I will use for the girls is that they're in dresses and heels as they are coming from a night out, this exaggerates their vulnerability as they are not sober and not fully aware of what they're doing making them an easy target for the antagonist. In contrast, the boy will be dressed in  informal, scruffy dark clothing to represent his lack of life inside of him and that he is evil and dangerous. Also the iconography used is the boys mask, which will be a white mask to contrast his clothes which emphasises the use of hiding his identity and that he is more alive when the mask is on. 
The Facial expressions and body language used in my scene will help make the characters look more realistic so that the audience can build a relationship or relate to them. When the antagonist is laying on the floor, his facial expressions would be like he is spaced out and not engaged with what is going on around him as if he was dead. In contrast, the girls facial expressions and body language would  be that they're happy, cheerful as they've had a good night out but they wouldn't be stable as they have been drinking. 
The lighting of my scene will mostly be very low-key lighting as I would like it to be set in the evening, as it shows the fact there is no one out at this time so if anything was to happen, no one would be able to help the victims quickly. 

Also I will use different types of camera and editing techniques such as panning, zoom in, point of view and slow editing to create more impact on the audience within the scene. These will help me on the thriller conventions to create suspense, shock and tension in the audience. For example, the setting would be of a forest and the camera shot would be a handheld( POV) of someone walking. Once out of the forest, the camera will zoom in onto the boy ( antagonist ) who is laying down in the middle of the road. 

As sound is very important in thriller films, I will use a variety of sound techniques such as parallel , diegetic, non-diegetic and even silence to emphasise what is happening in the scene.

The target audience I am going to refer my thriller opening to is a 15 classification because the themes and guidelines that I would like to use are permitted in a 15 and the people that are 15+ will relate more to the characters in the scene.

When I get into my group, i will share this information by explaining my narrative and gather all of our thoughts about each others to create a final story board of our opening thriller sequence.