Thursday, 11 December 2014

Deranged Presentation

                                                                              Title
We decided to use an metallic font for the film title as it connotes the colour of the blade of a knife which is the choice of weapon for our antagonist in our film. The sharp edges on the letters in the title have also been used to connote the point of a knife. We wanted the title to look like it had been engraved so that it can relate to the antagonist in the film as it connotes someone who is crazy. We chose to include a black background behind the title as the film cover is going to be black. We used this as the black colour connotes darkness and gives the audience a chilling effect.


               Narrative
Beginning
The beginning of our film if it were going to be made into a full film would firstly consist of  new reports and shots of news articles focused around a psychopath who has killed 11 out of 12 students in a classroom at his school. Then the focus is around psychopath who is now in a mental institution as he was to young to go to prison.Then the attention went to the victim who manged to escape the class during the killings and she will be the main character of the film as she is the lone the psychopath wants to find her and kill her.
Middle

The middle of the film will start will when the psycho breaks out of the mental institution in search of the one girl that got away from the school killings. The detective who is looking into the case of the breakout puts all the evidence together after looking back to the school killings that the psycho committed where there was one girl that got away and figures out who the last target is. The detective then tries to contact the girl before the psycho found her and before it was too late.
End
The detective goes to Graces house and tells her she is in danger, they plan to lure him in. Grace locks herself in the bathroom so that she is safe. She pretends to be unaware of the psychopaths presents and she sing as if she is getting ready for bed , meanwhile the detective is hidden in her bedroom waiting to catch the psychopath. Parker knows that the detective is there and he kills the detective without Grace knowing. Its then been a while since she heard anything and so she looks outside the door to find the killer standing there. There is then a fight scene between them when eventually she kills him with his knife.

                                                                      Mise-en-scene


Settings
The settings that we are going to use will be ones that are generic convention on psychological thrillers, we are doing this so that the audience can recognize the film genre we were thinking about using the school fence at some stage in order to promote the idea that the psychopath is trapped in a mental institution and that this is where he escaped from. We are going to use the drama room as one of our settings as it will create a dark and chilling atmosphere when the psychopath approaches his victim from behind. This is most likely be placed at the end of the trailer to keep the audience guessing about what happens to the victim. we are also planning to use an small alley which will be featured as a murder scene, if possible we want people to act dead. We are going to use a home setting for the closing scenes of our film as houses are considered to be a safe place and this is will compromised by the fight scene between the psychopath and the victim, making it more frightening.
Characters 

We haven’t come up with the names for the characters in our film yet, but we know what sort of roles are going to be portrayed. The characters that we have chose to include in our film are a Psycho, Detective, the main girl that the psycho is after and extra’s for the victims that will be shown throughout the trailer. The roles of these characters will be outlined in the narrative on the following slide.
Props
Our main props include a mask for the killer to his identity, this is a generic convention of physiological thrillers. We are going to use a plain white mark that is not showing emotion, this connote that Parker does not have any emotion or feelings, before going for this idea we thought he could wear a themed mask, but this was to stereotypical for our film and it did not represent Parker in anyway and so it would be irrelevant.
Our next main prop is Parkers clothing, which originally was going to be overalls as we wanted him to be covered up to hide his identity as we wanted our target audience to use their imagination on what he looks likes . we also wanted him to be in scruffy clothing as he is meant to have broken out of a mental asylum. we decided to have him wear the clothes of a victim a this idea seemed less cliché, the cloths would have become scruffy from the attack.
Another prop that will play a big park in our film is a knife. This will be Parkers choice of weapon ad will be an iconic image throughout distribution. We wanted to chose a simple weapon to make it realistic as a teenage boy could easily get hold of one
Our last significant prop is the detectives notice board. On the board will be notes and pictures that will lead the detective to finding out t is Grace Parker is looking for. We thought this would be a good prop as in the trailer we can show multiple shots in the trailer and give clues about the narrative  without giving it away. It also is a good proper to get the audience drawn in to wanting to find out answers.

                                                                    Unique selling point
The unique selling point of our film is that the antagonist is a male teenager. This is a counter type to the psychological thriller genre as they are usually men. Our antagonist is going to played by Matthew as his fit the antagonists profile. Another point that will attract our audience is that the antagonists victim already have a past/history together, this will be promoted interest. This will help the audience create a more personal relationship with the main girl as they will look into her past.

                                                                      Editing


Lighting and Cuts
we were discussing lowering the saturation when we are filming the psychopath when he is trapped in the mental institution. this could help us create a darker picture,creating a chilling effect for the audience. We will also use fast past cuts in our trailer as this is a generic convention of physiological thriller.
Transitions
We will use standard transitions such as plain cuts, black fades and wipe fade. These are stereotypical conventions of physiological thrillers. We will use these as we do not want the attention taken away from the context of the film. We will use wipe fades particularly when we show the multiple news articles as it will look as if the page is being turned. We will also mainly use black fade transitions at significant points in the film that we want the audience to take in. we will also consider using black fades if we decide to use cross cutting. for example when the detective is on the phone to the girl who the psycho is after, we must use cross cutting at this point which will go to a close up of the psycho knife scrapping across a wall.

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