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1. D.a
Supernatural Suspense
THRILLER
Relief at Conventions Shock
the end
False Villain/
Victim
ending

2. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
False Ending Challenge – Something Purpose – To keep the Paranormal Activity
demonic and scary giving audience thinking; Cliff
false hope. Keeping hanger. Change the way
audience scared not just you view curtain
annoyed. situations.
Description – We through
there would be a new
equilibrium, but it ended
with a cliff hanger and the
Ending – Demon still in her.
demon is still inside her.
Innocent Use – Young girl. Purpose – To make the Disappearance of Alice
Challenge – Almost audience feel sympathy Creed
Victims being the villain, the for the character and to
victim ends up killing the shock from her killing the
villain. villain
Description – At the end
of the film the woman
taken hostage ends up
killing the men that took
her showing no remorse
over it. The Victim kills the villain.

3. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Use (villain) – Can’t see You don’t see the Psycho
Villain and details, remains a
villain killing nor who
Victim mystery.
they are killing the
Use (victim) – An
attractive innocent woman in the
woman. shower, it makes the
audience wonder who
it is.
Develop (villain) – You Scream
can hear that it’s a male
in their voice, not that
The villain is a male
much of a mystery.
Develop (victim)– Both and you see the girl he
makes and females, you killed hurt but you
can see them hurt but don’t see how he killed
not them getting hurt. her or the gory details.
House of wax
Challenge (villain) – Very
shy and insecure. The victim is a male who
Challenge (victim) – is killed by a shy and
Male, showing him in a vulnerable villain, you see
gore like manner hurt. the victims get killed and
in detail what it looks like.

4. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Escaped Use – Middle aged male. Purpose – To show the Law abiding Citizen
Develop – Female. mentality of the character
convicts – how smart and cunning
they are.
Description – The man
planned his escape from
prison before her went in
to out smart the police
and get justice. Planning an escape from
prison.
Challenge – Making it Purpose – To shock the The Human Centipede
Shock horrific and unexpected. audience, showing a real
Not predictable . life situation in a
Disturbing. disturbing and terrifying
manner.
Description – The villain
holds 3 people hostage
and shocks the audience
in doing some extremely
unexpected disgusting the Takes people hostage and
audience creates them into a human
centipede.

5. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Blood Develop – To disgust the Purpose – To show Saw 2
audience psychological state of
characters and their
horrible mentality, also
how much they believe in
something
Description – When the
serial killer cut out a jigsaw
from a victims skin to show Cut out trademark some
his symbol/trademark.
someone's skin.
Use – To show ghosts Purpose – To terrify the The exorcist of Emily Rose
Supernatural exist audience showing that
Develop – Scaring the supernatural is stronger
audience putting the than yourself and can
supernatural in realistic controlling your mind.
situations Description – The victim is
possessed and cant
control herself, she forms
into unnatural positions
and talks in demonic Possessed on the floor and
voices of the demon. using demonic voices

6. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Psychological thriller
Challenge Description Opening Sequence
Purpose – To shock and
Supernatural Develop – The spirits
scare the audience in a
are hear and seen, but
sudden
also we developed the
Description – The
convention by having
closet doors will open
the spirits interact in
in a sudden out of no-
the real world
where The ghost are opening the
closet doors
Develop – Rather then Purpose – To keep the
Suspense build suspense to then audience interested
scare the audience and build tension so
afterwards, we will they’re on the edge of
build suspense slowly their seats
then show nothing Description – Laura
after the build up will be hiding under her
covers to slowly pull
them off to see what's Laura is pulling the sheet
Kaya D.b on the other side away from her eyes

7. Conventions of are opening
sequence

8. Convention Use/Develop/Challenge Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Description opening sequence
D.b
False Ending Use- Having the audience Purpose- To keep the
believing that something audience thinking
interesting is about to throughout .
happen.
Challenge- Something Description- Laura
scary but giving it a false walks to the
hope to make the cupboard with fear. When the girl opens the
cupboard and there was
audience scared. nothing in it.
Shock Challenge- By making Purpose- By shocking
something unexpected to the audience to get a
come by not being reaction out of them.
Description- When the
predictable.
victim is about to
experience something
unexpected and strange
to give the audience a
feeling of atmosphere. When Laura see’s someone
running behind her.

9. Inspirational Scenes Kaya E
The boogey man 1 Donnie Darko
Location of the spirit /
Relatable character
unusual happenings
I was inspired by the boogeyman
because of the location where the In reality Donnie Darko is a normal
unusual things happen in connection teenage guy, who is shy and doesn't
to the boogeyman. So I was inspired cause intentional trouble, however he
to have the spirits be connected to a can see and listens to something he
closet just like that film as it was very thinks is real but in fact is pretend.
scary and mysterious and dark

10. Kaya
E Inspirational Scenes
The woman in black
Non-diegetic sound to create
suspense
In this scene, the character is
looking through a spinning
lamp, while there is non-
diegetic sound of a regular
beat building to a climax
where the face of a woman is
seem with a sudden thud to
shock and give the audience a
fright

11. Inspirational Films (Paranormal Activity 3) -2010
Sanel
Db.
Paranormal 3 was inspiring to us because there structure starts of with a equilibrium
because it shows that the family are very close and happy. The film the changes to a
disequilibrium throughout the movie as something starts to happen and we don’t
know what is going on until the family starts to act very strange and different. All of a
sudden the mood has changed. So in our opening sequence we are going to start of
with equilibrium and then change to a disequilibrium as something begins to haunt
someone.

12. Sanel
Inspirational Films (Sixth Sense) -1999
Db.
The Sixth Sense was inspiring to because it involves with spirits and scares the
young boy seeing them and this related to our opening sequence as the girl starts
to see the spirit and gets very scared it shows us that the spirits can be anywhere
and tries to haunt you for a reason or tries to send you a message.

13. Inspirational Films
INSIDUOUS
The girl drops the phone
as she hears noises that
frighten her. This inspired
us to include this in our
own opening sequence.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
We were inspired by
the ghosts and the
haunted house aspect
of the film as it kept us
as an audience
interested in the film

14. gia
Inspirational films
The hither
This will inspirer are
group also because its
based on a victim and a
villain also like are
opening sequence.
Paranormal activity 3
This will inspirer
are group
because its based
on ghosts/spirits
haunting people.

15. Slide not improved
Kaya & Sanel
Theme and Concept F
Previously, our Theme was Drugs and our Concept was Hallucination.
What Went Well
• The idea was unique, no other previous opening sequences did this idea
• It could connect with out audience
• It created enigma, It has an interesting climaxing ending
Even Better If
• Quite an old drug, not used that much in this time
• Sounds abit like a Thriller – alter things to change to a thriller
• Theme and concept not quite right, needs changing
• So… We changed a little from drugs back to mental illness again, so it can suit out
new genre ‘psychological thriller’
• We also wanted to relate to our audience while scaring them with that character at the
same time
• We canted the theme and concept to relate to the past of the character

16. Slide not improved
Kaya & Sanel
Theme and Concept F
• To come up with out new Theme and Concept we all decided to keep the same idea of
the opening sequence, but change the cause of seeing delusions to suit the
psychological thriller genre more
• We all wanted an idea that could relate to our audience, making it seem more real to
them however at the same time frightening them with the characters situation
Theme: Concept:
Childhood Sentiment Schizophrenia

17. Theme and concept
• Are previous theme was drugs and are previous
concept was Hallucination.
• WWW
It suited our genre, it would scare our audience.
It was an interesting opening sequence.
• EBI
If people understood the plot, The idea was too complicated, not many people understood the plot
fully.
• Did we change are theme/concept? Why?
Yes We changed are concept because it wasn’t clear to most people what was wrong with the character Laura.
We also changed are theme because we wanted to start a new theme for are new opening sequence.

18. RESEARCH OF
TOPIC –
SPIRTS/
HAUNTING

19. What does it mean to be
haunted?
There are many definitions:
• Having or showing excessive or compulsive
concern with something
• Showing emotional affliction or disquiet
• Inhabited by or as if by apparitions

20. Sanel
Why Do Spirit Haunt People? G
•Some spirits haunt their previous home. They feel comfortable existing in
the same house that it once inhabited. Some spirits choose to follow a
familiar person or a family member.
•The spirit may now exist with the feeling of fear because it doesn't know
what to do. It usually doesn't intend to scare the living, it is just haunted by
fear of the unknown.
•A spirit who feels it was had lived an evil life when it was alive, may seek
out like-minded evil living people because it feels a kinship to the negative
feeling.
•Even though those spirits may appear evil, they are just frightened. They
often scare the living in order to get attention. They are seeking help, asking
someone to rescue them and guide them to the light.
•The transition that follows physical death is not final until the thought
pattern that holds them earthbound is released and they can see the God
light.

21. Sanel
What type of things can happen to you G
when your haunted?
• You may feel cold
• They might watch what your doing
• They can leave marks on your body
• They can play around with things e.g. Switching on the light or opening the tele.
• They can play tricks on you.
• They can throw things at you.
• Might make freaky noises
• They can touch you
• Sudden changes in mood or behaviour

22. Research of theme/concept.
• What do ghost/sprits look like.
spirits
Ghosts

23. Kaya
The different types of sprits!
Sprits are generally put down into 9 types in correlation to reasons for
still being on the earth. Here are those 9 types…
• Guardian angels
• Lost souls
• Are we dead yet?
• Unfinished business
• Self-appointed guardian angels
• Wasting time between lives
• Messengers
• Still living

24. Kaya
Guardian angels
It is know that everyone has at least one guardian
angel. They are your own ‘Guard’ throughout
your whole life. They are usually some kind of
relation to you that died before you were born.
Most of the time you won't know who they are or
were. They watch over your entire life and help
you out through the rough and dangerous times.
For example, they're the little voice telling you not
to take your usual route the day a huge pile-up
happens on the motorway.

25. Kaya
Lost Souls
These are spirits who know they're dead but don't know
where to go. They can also fear moving on and are afraid to
leave what's known to them. They linger around until the
day comes when they're ready to leave.

26. Kaya
Are we dead yet?
These spirits walk around, going about their lives not knowing
that they've passed on. They wonder why people ignore them
and why nobody comes to visit anymore. This happens more
often with old people who've spent their later years by
themselves.
Example from ‘The others’ the Example from ‘the sixth sense’
old man and woman

27. Kaya
Unfinished business
There can be a number of reasons why certain beings stick
around after death. It is simple that the sprit that has died, did
not complete something in life and once the work is finished, the
deceased usually moves on in peace.

28. Kaya
Self-appointed guardian angel
These are loved ones who stick around after death to watch over
someone. It can be a deceased husband watching over his
elderly wife during the last of her days. It can be a young mother
who died before her time watching over her children as they
grow up.

29. Kaya
Wasting time between lives
As in reincarnation. They're waiting for
the next life to come around. What
better way to waste some time than
being a ghost. Coming and going from
the planes as you please, enjoying
yourself during your
sightseeing, visiting old friends to see
how they're doing, and the list goes on.
They're not here and not there - there
just waiting in between.

30. Kaya
Messenger
These are usually in the form of a
loved one. It can be a warning of
certain danger or future events. It
can also be a spirit coming to
ease the pain from a grieving
loved one. With messengers, the
spirit is not always deceased.

31. Kaya
Still Living
These people can be dreaming or
having an out-of-body experience
(obe). In the case of dreams, the
person doesn't usually know
they're walking around in the
form of a ghost. With intentional
obe's, the projector knows what's
going on but their intentions are
generally harmless.

32. Slide not improved
Sanel
H
Idea Development
draft 1
We are now improving our opening sequence from our last one completely by changing our
old idea to a new one. We went from thriller to drama and now we are doing a physiological
thriller . It is about a girl who has schizophrenia and she was put in care as her parents died
when she was two. We fully researched and revised schizophrenia so we improved our
understanding and knowledge making sure we make an effective opening sequence.
How are we contributing
Sanel and Kaya are contributing by meeting up on the Holidays to fully research and carefully
think about our new ideas making sure that everything make sense for our audience. Also
we made sure what effects schizophrenia has on people so we could make it realistic as possible.

33. Slide not improved
Sanel and Kaya
H
Idea Development
Previously our idea for our whole film was about a girl who got introduced to a drug called
LSD. She got addicted to it and starts to ruin her life and blocks herself out from a social life.
What went well?
• Creative
• Interesting
• Scary
Even better if?
• Less complicated
• Don’t give away the ending
Previously our opening sequence was showing the girls journey to the forest while she starts
to have hallucination.
What went well?
• Creative idea’s of the hallucination
• the audience can watch her journey to the forest
Even better if?
• Change the ending as it’s too confusing