2. Narrative.
We have decided to produce a crime thriller opening sequence.
Firstly it will start with an establishing shot of the great park, it will be
around the time of when its getting dark to create a mysterious feel. Our
main story board includes a young girl walking her dog, and she keeps
hearing weird noises along the way almost as if someone if following her.
When she bends down to give the dog a treat a kidnapper suddenly puts a
black bag over her head and she is screaming helplessly but no one is around
to hear her. This scene will end with a fade to black.
The next scene will then cut to where the criminal has tied the young
character to a bed, we will have dull lighting and a smoke machine to add to
the mise en scene and achieve enigma in our sequence. The ending will
finish by a point of view shot from the female character looking at the door
and the audience gets to see the criminals face.
3. As previously said before, our sub genre is crime thriller. We have decided to do
this because we feel with the facilities we have, this genre will be perfect to be
created with the best of our abilities and the highest of standards. When
creating ideas for our storyline we made sure that people could differentiate
that our sequence is a crime thriller and not a horror by excluding any blood or
gore. We also incorporated our narrative around a crime, included a
protagonist and related our title to our specific sequence. The meaning of
‘Hostage’ is a person seized or held captive which is exactly what is going to
happen to the female character.
4. Our main character is a teenage female, she is the protagonist as the
audience can recognise that she is the one in danger. She will carry on
being the protagonist through the whole opening sequence.
Our male character is the antagonist as he is a criminal and will be
kidnapping the female. Not many key features will be revealed about
him including his full face as this will create questions to the audience
about who is he and why is he doing this to the specific female
character.
There will also be a dog involved with the first scene to create meaning to
the story line.
5. Together as a group we have decided to use the location of
the great park to film externally. We can use the natural
ambient sound of swaying trees, and the crunching of
leaves to create extra tension of the surroundings
combined with the realistic story of walking a dog.
We initially plan to film in the late afternoon so we have a
sunset getting dark, at this time not many people will be
there so no interruptions or mise en scene errors can be
made.
6. We have all decided that the appropriate rating for our
sequence will be a 15. This is because we are following
the BBFC rating, and within the 15 boundary we are
allowed nudity, drugs, violence and frequent bad
language. Some of these elements will be included in
our sequence.
7. When creating our opening thriller sequence we have
decided to share the roles around quite a lot, this gives
us the experience to find out what we are better at
doing and from there we will allocate specific roles.
Although we do have a brief indication , Beth will be
doing the majority of the camera work, Chloe greener
will be the main actor, Morgan will be doing the mise
en scene elements such as props, costume and make
up. Lastly Chloe Deavall will be helping with the flow
of the overall production and helping everyone in
there own areas giving advice on what to improve.
