2. The victim of our film is portrayed as being normal and innocent, but in the
background story she could also just be as bad as the stalker, as she killed
the parents of the stalker (Eugene Leonards) and then framed him, at the
time Eugene was 10, which was too young to be convicted so he was
sectioned off and placed in a maudsley hospital as they thought he was
insane and would of been a threat to society to let him stay free.
The victim is trying to live her life without any remorse from her past, but as
Eugene escapes she starts to get paranoid and becomes isolated from
society as much as he is. We have tried to portray her as this due to the
amount of wide shots and extreme wide shots used and also the music
used when she is running away from him
3.
The opening of my film, ‘mad house’ portrays the stalker as very isolated
and creepy, which is typical in any thriller film. We have made sure we
have emphasised the element of isolation and ‘weird’ because in other
thriller openings such as ‘seven’ the serial killer looks very strange and
isolated and they brought across the idea of isolation due to the mise en
scene, the props and the special effects. We have tried to imitate the
elements from seven into our own film, and we have tried to do this by
making it extremely dark so that the stalker can blend into the dark to
follow and attempt to kill the victim, also in certain scenes we have tried
to make everything else in the mise en scene clear except his face, which
will remain unseen.
The background story to this film is quite significant because I have not
seen anyone attempt to make a film like ours. The background story of
the film tells us why the stalker is following the victim, and why he
escaped from the hospital and what he is planning to do if/when he finds
the woman.
