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2.  Our film genre is a psychological thriller. In order to make our
film opening apart of a psychological thriller, we'll include certain
conventions, such as having the main character being mentally
unstable as the film progresses.
 The film features the main character being stalked throughout
the film by a mysterious figure from his past, although he is
unsure what he is seeing and experiencing is real or not.
Nevertheless, the appearances of this girl causes the main
character to try and figure out what he is done to anger this girl,
while trying to keep his sanity.
 The theme of the film is the idea that something that you don't
feel that is important could be important to somebody else as
the main character only fired her from her job - a decision that
leaves him haunted by her.

3.  Act 1-
 Hakeem is walking to his filming location.
 Act 2-
 Hakeem starts to film and sees Molly in the camera. He looks up
from the camera and she's gone. He goes over to where he saw
her and sees photos of himself
 Act 3-
 In a panic, Hakeem returns to his home to find it turned upside
down with all of his belongings thrown around.
 Key dramatic moment
 When Hakeem sees Molly in the camera but when he tries to see
her without the camera she doesn’t appear

4. Hakeem Bailey –
 22 years old
 Works as a director and is working on an independent
film
 Lives on his own
Molly Smith –
 Used to be an actor who worked for Hakeem, who fired
her as she was a bad actor
 This caused her to become mentally unstable as loosing
her job led her to depression and she lost her home as
well as her family.
 Recently escaped from hospital.

5.  Genre conventions?
The mise en scene of the photos represent the genre
convention of identity as the character of Hakeem is trying
to think of who has taken these photos of him.
A hospital gown suggests her unstable past.
Hospital – genre convention of illness (mental)
 Mood is threatening thrughout

6.  Setting – At Castlefield house and the Castle
grounds during the day
 Props – Camera, tripod, photos, house items
(e.g. books, family photos)
 Lighting – low key in house, high key outside,
except when focusing on the girl
 Costume/makeup- Hospital gown, creepy
makeup, business casual clothes
 Performance and proxemics – distance
between the 2 characters represents the
distance in their realtioniship

7.  As the film is a psychological thriller, lots of POV shots will
be used in order to capture what's going on in the film in a
single characters perspective. In order to capture these
POV shots, we will have the character filming what's going
on with a video camera.
 Key shots would include the close-up of the main
character when he first see's the girl that's haunting him as
the starts of the beginning of the psychological aspect of
the film as well as a panning shot of Hakeem’s room when
its wrecked.
 There would be a variety of different camera shots
throughout the film, with establishing shots occurring when
a scene being set, and close up/extreme close up shots
being used in order to capture the characters emotions.

8.  Which films and opening sequences have
influenced you and why?
 The Shinning influenced us as it reflects the
unstable mind-set of the characters in the
film

9.  Interior – Castlefield House – lounge area
 Exterior – Castle Grounds
 Permissions – Asking if were allowed to film
at Castlefield house

10.  Diegetic? Dialogue/voiceover script – “Hello,
is anyone there?”
 No voiceover or narration
 Non- Diegetic? – mood music (instrumental)
to add tension

11.  Good shot idea seeing the camera shots taking
through the camera reflects film genre
 Use a wrist band prop instead of a hospital gown
 Simple idea which works well
 Props and costume worked well
 Good character and plot depth
 Problems with how to get props e.g. second
camera
 Need a bigger key dramatic moment