Individual Narrative Idea's - Miss Georgiou

In a thriller sequence, a narrative is important because the audience need to understand the base line of the sequence. However not too much should be revealed as it would spoil the narrative for the audience as they will know what is going to happen whereas if only little detail is revealed then the suspense would be built up and keep the audience on the edge of their seats while the tension builds up.


Narrative:
The sequence would be set in a forest, two characters ( a boy and a girl) are having a romantic walk by walking their dog. The lighting would be quite dark as it would be set in at night time. The dog senses an unknown presence and starts barking and then runs runs off. The 2 characters then split up to look for the dog, but one character doesn't realise that the other character is possessed. We then reveal that one character has died and then shows the dog discovering the body. When the dog discovers the dead body it shows the possessed characters with blood all over her face so that the cannibalism is obvious to the audience. This leaves the audience shock as the twist was meant to be the other way round making the audience feel questioned.  This would be conventional to a thriller as it creates suspense which is ideal for a thriller film as it creates tension towards the audience.

The target audience for this particular sequence idea would be at a 15 age rating. This is because the use of blood and cannibalism would not be suitable for younger ages however there would be no use of bad, harmful language that could harm any audience so does not need to be restricted for an 18 aged rating.


In this opening sequence, it would start by showing the setting of where the scene is set by displaying a panning of the forest. The lighting that would be show would be at a low key as it would create more suspense and enigma which is conventional for the thriller genre. After the setting is displayed, the frame would then display a slow zooming in into the two characters walking their dog so that we see a rough image of what the two characters look like and hear a typical conversation they would be having to represent their personalities. After this is displayed, it would be cut so immediately the focus is on the dog once it starts to sense that the bad omen is nearby and runs off. As the dog is running off, it will then cut straight into one of the characters point of view angle so that as the audience we can see what they are viewing and can see everything from their perspective to add more suspense. The camera angle will then change into a extreme long shot so that the audience can see the two characters split up and go different directions while we also see the focus on the background showing that they are isolated and have no one to help them adding more tension to the sequence. After the two characters have shown their two different departures would then change into the dogs point of view perspective and would slowly starting zooming in towards the back of the antagonist once the dog discovers that she is a cannibal and is eating the other characters. At this point we would then show her turning round to face the dogs perspective with her face covered in blood in a slow editing to add more suspense and shock towards the sequence and to add enigma and to display what she has done. After this the sequence would slowly fade out to leave the audience in shock and leave them with an untold enigma. We will set the target audience for this sequence by corresponding the conventions with the suitable audience so that no harm is done to anyone that watches our sequence. We will make sure the targeted audience are suited towards our sequence in order to prevent damage.

I will share my idea's with my group by sitting down together and discussing our different ideas of narratives that we have. Out of all of us we will then pick the best one to use as the final piece, if not we will link all of our ideas together to create one developed idea. If we was to use one persons idea, we would continue to develop their idea to have a bigger impact on the audience and to add more conventions wherever possible to emphasize the sequence. We will choose not only the best narrative but the idea which is the most effective and has the bigger impact and uses more conventions.