The document discusses research on revenge through analyzing movies where characters enact revenge in painful, murderous ways in response to past wrongs done to them or their loved ones, as well as exploring the dictionary and internet definitions of revenge and how it relates to suffering through analyzing the film "The Pursuit of Happiness." It also provides outlines of the opening sequences and plots for revenge-focused psychological thriller films.

1. Research On Revenge
• I watched a range of movies
such as “Dead Silence” and
"Law abiding citizen” they all
had the aspect of revenge I
watched how they got their
“revenge” and all of them
was a Painful MURDER
Girl gets
murdered
because she
laughed & Mocked
the doll (Dead
Clips from dead silence silence)
the old man is tortured&
killed (revenge) for his
past behaviour

2. Research On revenge Continued
Man (Clyde) reveals
his identity on the
man who killed and
raped his daughter
and wife
The murderer tries to
shoot him not
knowing when he
pulls the trigger the
gun will numbed his
body which Clyde
had planned as a part
of his torture
Clyde then tortures the man
then kills him by cutting him
into pieces (48 pieces)

3. Revenge
• Dictionary Meaning Of Revenge:
• Internet Meaning:

4. Suffering
I watched the“ Pursuit of Happiness”
this has elements of suffering in it.
Man gets kicked out of his
house and is now
homeless
Man and his young son sleep in the
train station no blanket , no pillow ,
No hope (Suffering)

6. Part G

7. Part G
Cliffhangers
False
Investigations
accusations
Murders Thrillers Suspense
Crime Anxiety
Tension

8. Part G
• Suspense-created by the main
character’s actions and music
Using • Mind Games/ Paranoia- Having The
Doll Keep Going Missing and not
knowing what the doll would do next
• Anxiety-Have moments where we
Developing can build up tension to cause
anxiety.
• Murder- To Show A Previous Murder
in a Flashback
Challenging • Cliff-hangers-By not giving too much
away within the opening sequence

9. Part H
In our opening sequence there are going to be 2 characters and 2 actors.
1st Character is Nia acted by 2nd Character is Kylie by Paula
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Nia is a shy, lonely, quiet character, Nia is in Kylie doesn’t have much of a role in the
her own world. She is shown to be mentally sequence but she is a friend of Nia. She does
disturbed in the sequence. She's not much of seem to worry about Nia a lot because of her
a bold character but she is very vulnerable. shy behaviour. But she lives around the area,
She's gone through past experiences which and she greets Nia from time to time.
made her have a sort of abnormal behaviour
or is she just seeing things that are not really Stereotype – confident, cheerful
there. Costume – bright, stylish
Stereotype – hidden, alone Language – modern, slang, talkative
Costume – dark clothing, winter wear Body language – loud and proud
Language – low toned voice.
Body language - hostile

10. Part I Filming will also take
place outside the house.
( Long shot)
Point of view shot from
the door (Nia passes by)

11. Part I
She then
walks
through Then
he into the
corridor. kitchen/
dining
area.
A mid
shot will
be
Most of the filmed
setting will be here.
set at home.
Nia will be the
main character .
She walks
through this
door after
seeing Kylie

12. Part K 5 Bullet Points Overview Of
Open Sequence
• Main Character walks outside for some fresh air. She sees her
neighbour they have a brief conversation
• Main character picks up a letter she opens it and it has letters cut
up she puts the words together and gets the word “KNOCK
KNOCK” then in couple of minutes the door Knocks
• Main character opens the door and there's no-one there she
closes the door and when she looks a doll appears on the table.
•
• Main character is puzzled but walks past the table with the doll on
it
• As she walks past the doll disappears and the scene is finished
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13. Part K
The Opening Scene
5 Bullet
• Teenage Girl Working On Her Laptop In The
Points House Alone, When An Envelope is sent through
her letter box, she goes to pick it up and brings
back to the table she was working on.
• When She Opens The Envelope little bits of
different colour paper spills out spelling the phrase
“Knock Knock”.
• She then receives a loud knock at the front door,
she approaches the magic hole to see no one
there. She Opens The Door To See no one there
and as she looks down there is a doll placed by
the step of the door.
• She takes the doll inside and places it on the
chair next to her and stairs at it Confused.
• She Then Looks Away from the doll to look at the
door again to find the doll is missing.

14. Part K
5 Bullet Points Of The Whole Film
• Nia (Main Character) walks outside for some fresh air. She sees her Kylie (Good
Friend/neighbour) they have a brief conversation. Nia picks up a letter she opens it and it has
letters cut up she puts the words together and gets the word “KNOCK KNOCK” then in couple of
minutes the door Knocks.
• Nia opens the door and there's no-one there she closes the door and when she looks a doll
appears on the table. Nia is puzzled but walks past the table with the doll on it As she walks past
the doll disappears and the scene is finished (Open Sequence)
• Nia notices the doll has gone missing and has no memory of moving it she panics and starts to
run to the door but the door is locked she then hears a young girl preferably whispering (Child
murderer) she turns around and finds the doll in the corridor who then repeats again.
• Nia passed out when she awakes she finds her self trapped to a table with a lot of medical
equipment around her. The doll explains who the real identity is of the doll is which is the main
characters unborn child that the main character had an abortion when she was 17 so the spirit of
the unborn child lives and plans to live inside her mothers body.
• Towards the end the doll kills the Nia and the doll transforms the spirit into Nia’s body

15. Part N We decided to use Torodov’s
Theory because ..
• His theory is a Normal
beginning , something goes
wrong in middle then everything
is goes either back to normal or
Happier at the end.
• Our Idea Starts Calm then
speeds up with a twist(both
audience and character are
confused waiting to see what’s
going to happen next ) then
ends off with a tragedy ending
(New Equilibrium) which is what
a psychological thriller normally
does.
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16. Part O
Theories of Propp (Character
Roles
• We will be applying theories
of Propp in our Opening
Sequence.
 What I learnt from Propp is
that you can classify characters
by their roles and actions.
 This links to our opening
sequence, because the
characters are all different and
we could understand each • We will be using theories of Propp
actors key function. to identify what characters do
what. In his theory Nia would be
(the Victim) and Kylie would be
(the helper)

17. Part P
Theories of Strauss (Binary
Opposition)
 What we learnt from Claude examined how
Claude is that stories
reflect values, myth and stories reflect beliefs,
beliefs of culture. values and myths of
culture.
 This is expressed in the
form of “Binary
Oppositions” We will use this by
explaining the
 In our opening sequence differences between
binary opposition will be the 2 characters.
used to show the main
characters 2 qualities at
different times. One Nia – being more of the
showing her to be a weak shy weak character
person and then becoming
more strong and Kylie – inferior, strong,
independent.
confident