1) Write up a DETAILED recount of your narrative/group storyboard
2) Include a summary explaining how and why certain elements (look at a few) will help make your sequence better/more conventional
In this post I will mainly be writing up a detailed recount of my storyline/narrative and write how I believe it will be conventional to the thriller genre. I will also be including a summary explaining how our thriller is conventional to the thriller genre and elements that could make our sequence more conventional.
Our narrative is based around the idea of a girl being possessed, it starts off by the girl putting make up on, we thought of starting with this innocent iconic opening mainly because we thought it would be conventional to the thriller genre as it would be an example of iconography and also the girl would be young and blonde which are also conventional to the thriller genre. The fact that it would start with such an innocent, lonely girl doing an average act (applying make up) would build to the relationship between both the audience and the characters as they would sympathise with the situation. It would also add to the shock when eventually she shows evidence of her possession.
As the scene continues we see glimpses of evidence which would all suggest her overarching possession of water, the fact that the audience see small evidence of water it would remind the audience that the girl is far from normal. It would be conventional to the thriller genre as it creates suspense amongst the audience as they know that it is building up to a climax. The water will be poured out of the glass onto the floor, it would be poured onto the floor to emphasise the idea of water being destructive and harmful. So the realism of the situation grows with significance because the audience find the idea of a young girl being possessed makes her seem abnormal and creates empathy. When the climax eventually arrives the girl has travelled to the lake through her overpowering water possession.
As the scene progresses we tried to incorporate the idea of typical thriller conventions such as low key lighting we thought to include this idea as it emphasises the iconography of the young girl because the dark lighting, will make the girl seem brighter because what she is wearing. This will make her seem more powerful and therefore will add to the already established relationship between both the audience and the characters because it will make her possession seem more individual and will add to the sympathy.
As we started editing our thriller clip we decided that we would need to re-arrange/alter we decided that there was a few things that we needed to add in order to make it more conventional -
Removal of watch - Initially Robyn came up with the idea of dropping a watch into the lake to lake to resemble the strength of the possession and the fact that its inevitable and time will not cure it.
You have provided a brief overview of your narrative, but need to do a frame by frame recount of your sequence, explaining the cinematography, sound, editing etc used at each point.
ReplyDeleteYou don't need to explain things throughout, just simply tell the story using lots of description and mentioning micro-elements used