Group narrative - Miss Georgiou

I am going to be working with Charlie Stewart and Ryan Samuels to make a thriller opening sequence.

Me - The opening sequence for this narrative would be of the friends walking through the forest, when their friend goes missing and getting the text from the antagonist, the focus would go back and forth from the characters and pictures of the chalk circles and weapons, that could possibly be used. The credits would be written in text font like the phone to show some of the narrative about the antagonist sends them messages. The rules could be being read out so that the audience are aware straight away that there is some sort of game involved.
      Advantages - It builds up suspense which is a main convention of thriller,  it has a good understanding of what is needed to make a thriller film to build the right emotions. This is good because the audience are allowed to relate to the characters and their situtations.
      Disadvantages - Its brief and needs more information about what is happening in the scene. It could be in more depth so that the story line include more details about how it ends or what leads up to the ending.

Ryan Samuels - Boy and a girl are having a lunch picnic. Girl comments on how glad she is that the boy forgave her for the terrible thing she did. Boy looks away and we see that he looks menacing. Cut to flashback of the boy walking to the edge of the platform at a train station, about to jump but deciding not to at the last minute. Cut back to the present, the boy's girlfriend asks him to pass her the apple juice. Then we see the hamper and as the boy moves the apple juice we see a knife. Boy grabs it, screen fades to black, girl screams.
     Advantages - Easy to produce and the audience can understand the antagonist clearly. Although it is simple is shows good uses of the stereotypical shock and surprise that we want to build. This narrative would be easy to work because the portrayal of emotions are simple.
     Disadvantages - But this narrative doesn't build much tension or show many conventions of a thriller. It is brief and has been rushed, the codes and conventions need to be work on in order to make this film a thriller as it is not partially scary and it doesn't create enough emotion.

Charlie Stewart - For my thriller film I am going to be base it around a wife who is in a room on her own. The audience see her facial expressions seem depressed at the beginning and she hears noises outside of the room that she is in. The woman opens the door to investigate the noise but doesn't see anything so as she sits back down she sees a silhouette of someone standing there. Then it cuts to black as he walks in the door, we hear struggling noises and then finally silence. Then we see a silhouette walk out then the camera pans to the woman's desk and we see blood all over it.
     Advantages - good narrative, and good use of conventional thriller elements. This narrative leaves a strong enigma and has been given the right emotions, it builds shock, suspense and surprise. This would be good for our group narrtive because it is extremly conventional.
     Disadvantages - This narrative would be hard to make it has so much detail which would need to be change in order to make it possible. It could have a bit more detailed plot so that we understand how it's ends and how the woman came to be alone.

                                                        Group narrative

We are going to be using my idea for the opening sequence but are going to be changing some parts. We are going to be using the same base narrative but instead of having it from the view of the friend group we are going to be haveing it from the perspective of the victim when they are kidnapped, to make create more symapthy from the audience. The game element is also going to be removed so that we can focus more on the victim being taken, it would also be to much to fit into the opening sequence.  The audience and the character will not know much about the who the antagonist is or their intentions so that the audience are intrigued to find out more in the rest of the film. Our new, changed narrative is about a group of girls on their way home through the forest, when they come too a spilt path. One of the girls has to leave the group and go a different route, but as she goes out of sight from her friends she sees an unknown figure. But as she turns away she realises that is was not a real person in front of her and that there is a man standing behind her. She gets so panicked and blacks out, as she wakes up she is being dragged though the forest by the mysterious man. This is where the sequence ends it leaves suspense and a need to know whats going to happen. We all agreed that this narrative is soemthing we could create and that it build the right feel for a thriller opening sequence. The changes we have made have given the narrative has made it to a much high standard, linking it in with more conventions and emtions needed when watching a thriller film.
    
Our group have decided that it follows the Todorov theory, this is when the narrative has a equilibrium and a disequillibrum to put the antagonist and protagonist into full action in the film, to prove who they are. Our film isnt following the normal schedule of Todorov's theory because the disequilibrium comes first as the audience can see at the beginning that the charcter is in a bad situation and needs help. We have chosen this theory because it allows the audience to see clearly what the characters are doing and how the narrative goes. It shows the issues in the film and how they are resolved by giving a clear image of the disequilibrium and equilibrium for the audience to follow.