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Psychological thriller

Conventions

Danger on a mental level

Confusions with what is real and what is not

Flashbacks

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Elements of mystery

Traumatic memory

Mental conflict with their own mind

Use/Develop/Challenge

Purpose and Description

Examples from films

Flashback Use – flashback of many years ago, perhaps childhoodDevelop – flashback of a mysterious past Challenge - dark, scary flashback of a crime

Purpose – to frighten the audience and create enigma as to what crime happenedDescription – a flashback of three police men climbing a ladder to the roof on a search for something

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Vertigo

Three police men on a search

Traumatic Memory Use – discussion of the traumatic memory with another personDevelop – photograph of the traumatic memoryChallenge - flashback

Purpose – to inform the audience of the characters’ past and give the audience an insight into the audience’s thoughtsDescription – A bloody looking photograph which frightens the audience

Somebody holding a photograph

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ConventionPsychological Thriller

ConventionPsychological Thriller

Use/Develop/Challenge

Purpose and Description

Examples from films

Elements of mystery

Use – characters are very worried about a situation that the audience doesn’t knowDevelop – audience sees a body but doesn’t know what happened

Purpose – to create fear for the audience and make them wonder why and how the body is there Description – there is a man lying still on the ground, the camera gradually zooms in on the body

Donnie Darko

A person lying still on the ground.

Danger on a mental level

Use – a person screaming while another person is thereChallenge – a person screaming alone for no reason

Purpose – to make the audience question her mental state and frighten themDescription – after a series of fast cuts at various angles we see the girl in her bedroom screaming for an unknown reason.

Black Swan

A girl alone in the room screaming for an unknown reason

ConventionPsychological thriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Danger on a mental level rather than physical

Develop – Having a young girl seeing delusions, but developing it to scary bizarre delusions that will scare our audience

Purpose – To show how someone emotional state can effect someone with schizophrenia and emotional connection with her toysDescription – Laura throughout can see delusions of her toys from her past.

Laura can see her delusions in the reflection of her mirror

FlashbacksUse – Showing flashbacks of Laura’s past

Purpose – To show clues to the reasons behind Laura’s delusions and why she is going to the forestDescription – Foster parents take a picture of Laura holding a box with delusional characters next to her Picture being taken of Laura

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ConventionPsychological thriller

Use / Develop /Challenge

Purpose andDescription

Examples fromOpening Sequence

Confusions with what’s real and what’s not

Develop – Laura doesn't realise that these characters are delusions or real life. She just thinks its normal, and its developed by making the delusions scary

Purpose – To show effects of schizophrenia on someone and how it can confuse someoneDescription – Laura talks to these delusional character as if they’re real. The arm of the delusional

character reaches for Laure through the mirror

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Use- By showing her digging something up from the ground at a fast pace and losing control over it.

Inspirational Scenes

Alice in Wonderland Donnie Darko The last song

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A character that’s very scary and creepy

During a bad trip you see things that are frightening so this Cheshire cat from Alice in wonderland (2010) inspired me to crate a character with

similar features that will frighten Laura when

hallucinating.

In reality Donnie Darko is a normal teenage guy, who is shy and doesn't cause intentional

trouble, however he can see and listens to something he thinks is

real but in fact is pretend.

Music to emphasise emotion

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Relatable character

The song played on the piano in The last song created a lot of

emotion and focus towards the girl on the piano, which inspired us to use during our flashbacks. The pace and sound of the piano emphasises understanding of the character. We want to use this so the audience will understand and concentrate on Laura’s situation.

Inspirational Scenes SanelBlack Swan 2010E

Black is inspiring to us because there structure starts of with a disequilibrium because it shows how breaking into a entertainment industry is difficult as you have to be perfect at what your doing. The film stays a disequilibrium throughout the movie as she kills herself without realising the black swan was her and so in our opening sequence we are going to have disequilibrium throughout our opening sequence as having schizophrenia never has a happy ending.

Inspirational Scenes Sanel

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-1974

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was inspiring to us that the slow motion was effective as it focuses on the details slowly showing us that something that had happen was important. So when we do are slow motion of Laura falling to ground you can see how the slow motion emphasise the fall.

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Inspirational documentary She thinks that she saw

faces while she was driving, but really she was having an

illusion.

This leads her into swerving off the road.

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Inspirational Scenes

• The addition of the date and time makes the film more real and clear as the audience already knows the background information of the scene. We are going to include the day and time in our opening sequence too.

• It clearly conveys a lot of the characters’ emotion to the audience. We are going to include close up shots in our opening sequence.

• We were inspired by the day and time shown in the film

• We were inspired by these close up shots of Shannon and Joanne shown in the film.

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• We don’t know if it’s a flashback, what he’s dreaming or what is actually going on around him. We were inspired by this as we want to play with our audience’s mind and keep them wondering.

Inspirational ScenesRAHEL

Kaya & Sanel Theme and ConceptPreviously, our Theme was Drugs and our Concept was Hallucination.

What Went Well• The idea was unique, no other previous opening sequences did this idea• It could connect with out audience• It created enigma, It has an interesting climaxing ending

Even Better If• Quite an old drug, not used that much in this time• Sounds abit like a Thriller – alter things to change to a thriller• Theme and concept not quite right, needs changing

• So… We changed a little from drugs back to mental illness again, so it can suit out new genre ‘psychological thriller’

• We also wanted to relate to our audience while scaring them with that character at the same time

• We canted the theme and concept to relate to the past of the character

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Kaya & Sanel Theme and Concept

• To come up with out new Theme and Concept we all decided to keep the same idea of the opening sequence, but change the cause of seeing delusions to suit the psychological thriller genre more

• We all wanted an idea that could relate to our audience, making it seem more real to them however at the same time frightening them with the characters situation

Theme:Childhood Sentiment

Concept:Schizophrenia

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What is schizophrenia

• Schizophrenia is a simple mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, confusion and physical tension.

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Research on schizophrenia

What is it?It is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness

These are the following symptoms of having schizophrenia: Delusion Hallucinations Bizarre behaviour Disorganized speech Negative symptoms

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Sanel GResearch on schizophrenia

How can people get schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia can usually appears in late teens, early adulthood. It is considered to be inherited. Stress, drugs and alcohol can trigger its onset.

Why can people get schizophrenia?

There are no reason to why people can get it, it all depends on your family genetics. If your family both have schizophrenia then you have a possible chance of catching it too.

Social withdrawal

Unfriendliness

suspiciousness

Deterioration of

personal hygiene

Failure to cry or express joy

Expressionless gaze

Depression

Oversleeping or insomnia Strange or

irrational statements

ForgetfulnessUnable to concentrate

Extreme reaction to criticism

Signs

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Effects of Schizophrenia• Relationship problems – Due to isolation and

paranoia• Disruption to normal daily activities - due to the

sufferer’s delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thoughts

• Alcohol and drug abuse - used to try to self-medicate or reduce symptoms.

• Increased suicide risk – sufferers are highly likely to commit suicide during psychotic episodes, during periods of depression, and in the first six months after they’ve started treatment.

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Sanel GResearch on schizophrenia

How to recover from schizophrenia

Avoid too much stress.

Do yoga to release stress

Take medication on time

Attend to therapy to help keep on top of your problems

Eat healthy

Sleep well

Get sufficient exercise

Kaya Research on schizophreniaThe statistics on risk of developing schizophrenia

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Research on schizophreniaThe statistics on age and gender with schizophrenia

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Research on schizophrenia

Effect on the brain

Difference in brain development between normal teenagers and

teenagers suffering with schizophrenia

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GResearch on schizophreniaSubtypes of schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia: Disorganized Subtype

• This subtype’s predominant feature is disorganization of the thought processes.

• Hallucinations and delusions are less pronounced, although there may be some evidence of these symptoms.

• These people may have significant impairments in their ability to maintain the activities of daily living. Even the more routine tasks, such as dressing, bathing or brushing teeth, can be significantly impaired or lost.

• People diagnosed with this subtype also may have significant impairment in their ability to communicate effectively. At times, their speech can become virtually incomprehensible, due to disorganized thinking.


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Schizophrenia: Catatonic Subtype

• The predominant clinical features seen in the catatonic subtype involve disturbances in movement.

• Affected people may exhibit a dramatic reduction in activity, to the point that voluntary movement stops, as in catatonic stupor. Alternatively, activity can dramatically increase, a state known as catatonic excitement.

• They may maintain a pose in which someone places them, sometimes for extended periods of time.

• Affected people may voluntarily assume unusual body positions, or manifest unusual facial contortions or limb movements.

• Other symptoms associated with the catatonic subtype include an almost parrot-like repeating of what another person is saying or mimicking the movements of another person.


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Schizophrenia: Undifferentiated Subtype

• The undifferentiated subtype is diagnosed when people have symptoms of schizophrenia that are not necessarily formed or specific enough to make a classification into another subtype

• The symptoms of any one person can alter at different points in time, resulting in uncertainty to the correct subtype arrangement.

• Other people will display symptoms that are remarkably stable over time but still may not fit one of the typical subtype pictures.


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Schizophrenia: Residual Subtype

• This subtype is diagnosed when the patient no longer displays noticeable symptoms.

• In such cases, the schizophrenic symptoms generally have lessened.

• Hallucinations, delusions or characteristic behaviours may still be present

• Some people require secure care in state institutions, while others are employed and can maintain an active family life.

• In general, better outcomes are associated with brief episodes of symptoms worsening followed by a return to normal functioning.


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Schizophrenia: Paranoid Subtype

• The defining feature of the paranoid subtype is the presence of auditory hallucinations or prominent delusional thoughts. Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common subtype.

• People diagnosed with the paranoid subtype may not appear odd or unusual and may not readily discuss the symptoms of their illness.

• Typically, the hallucinations and delusions revolve around some characteristic theme, and this theme often remains fairly consistent over time.

• A person’s temperaments and general behaviours often are related to the content of the disturbance of thought

WE ARE USING THIS SUBTYPE

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Idea DevelopmentWe are now improving our opening sequence from our last one completely by changing our old idea to a new one. We went from thriller to drama and now we are doing a physiological thriller . It is about a girl who has schizophrenia and she was put in care as her parents died when she was two. We fully researched and revised schizophrenia so we improved our understanding and knowledge making sure we make an effective opening sequence.

How are we contributing

Sanel and Kaya are contributing by meeting up on the Holidays to fully research and carefully think about our new ideas making sure that everything make sense for our audience. Also we made sure what effects schizophrenia has on people so we could make it realistic as possible.

draft 1

Idea DevelopmentSanel and Kaya

Previously our idea for our whole film was about a girl who got introduced to a drug called LSD. She got addicted to it and starts to ruin her life and blocks herself out from a social life. What went well?• Creative• Interesting• Scary

Even better if?• Less complicated• Don’t give away the ending

Previously our opening sequence was showing the girls journey to the forest while she starts to have hallucination.

What went well?• Creative idea’s of the hallucination• the audience can watch her journey to the forest

Even better if?• Change the ending as it’s too confusing

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HWhole Film (Laura’s life from the beginning)

• Her friends introduce her to the drugs, she likes it and carries on taking it

• Laura takes it daily, gets addicted, party's, stops going school-messes her life up

• She steals, does prostitution to try and get money for LSD

• Her and her friends get into a big fight over money for the drug and she becomes lonely and depresses

• She keeps self harming, taking the drugs and ends up getting so intoxicated she doesn’t know what she's ding and just goes to the forest while hallucination

• He has heart failure and dies alone.

Draft 2 (Drama)

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HOpening SequenceDraft 2 (Drama)

• We follow Laura walking out of her home ( on the way to the forest and cut from different shots of her journey

• Throughout the journey we see short flash backs

• We then show CCTV of her walking into the park/forest gates

• Point of view of what she can see and hear (hallucination) which cuts from real life and her point of view.

• Laura stops quickly holds her chest and falls to the ground breathing slowly

• Front her point of view we see characters dance together

Idea development

• We took out mental illness schizophrenia and just made her actually be possessed by demons who wanted to let the world know about her cult scaring the world so the demons can possess them too from watching the video.

• Doing deeper research of the reason of possession that demons can be related into the real world and why the certain people get possessed because they’re venerable.

• We also changed the location to somewhere more flexible as the room was small and we couldn’t move things around. Therefore we changed the to one of the group members basement as it is spacious and reliable.

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HHow the idea was improved from draft 1 to draft 2

Idea development How the idea was improved from draft 2 to draft 3

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• We changed our genre completely from Drama to physiological Thriller.

• We have changed our whole film and only changed the flashback of our opening sequence and the ending.

• We revised a new topic on Schizophrenia and what effect Schizophrenia can have on people.

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HWhole Film

Draft 3 (Psychological Thriller)

• Main girl (Laura) parents die when she’s 2 years old- she gets put in care.

• She gets adopted at 14 by a couple.

• They make her bury the toys she keeps talking to –she carries on doing this they put her back in care

• She obviously emotional so her schizophrenia gets wore and her delusional become more bizarre and dangerous

• She burns the forest where her toys were buried and gets sent to a mental hospital

What we are doing now

Opening Sequence HSanel and Kaya

• Laura walks from her foster home (to the forest) (throughout this journey we see 3 flashbacks)

• FB1- Laura aged 13 blowing candles off her cake (delusional characters behind her) her foster parents discuss her behaviour

• FB2- The foster parents take picture of Laura with a box with the delusional characters next to her

• FB3- Laura looking in the mirror to the reflection of the delusional characters telling her to get them back and talk about her real parents

• When she gets to the forest she will start to dig with her hands and retrieving a box with 2 toys inside and a picture of her (from before), of her real parents, and the doll and clown while it zooms out in shots jumps to them walking up from behind her.

Draft 3 (Psychological Thriller)

What we are doing now

FB-Flashbacks

IScript

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Shot listLaura walking out her home

Full body shot from behind of Laura Willesden Laura - Brown wig

- Tassel bag

Dark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tights

Laura walking out her home


Flashback of Laura blowing candles off her birthday cake


Establishing shot from the front

Close up shot of Laura's face

Mid shot of Laura carrying on walking

Mid shot of her sitting at the table using hand held camera

Close up shot of her face – hand held

Mid shot of Laura at table – hand held

Full body shot walking towards the park

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Willesden

Willesden

Willesden

Willesden

Willesden

Golders Green

Laura

Laura

Laura

Laura

Laura

Laura

Laura

- Brown wig- Tassel bag

- Brown wig- Tassel bag- Brown wig- Tassel bag- Cake- Candles- Brown wig


Dark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tightsDark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tights


Black dress

Flashback of Laura blowing candles off her birthday cakeFlashback of Laura blowing candles off her birthday cake

Black dress

Black dress

- Cake- Candles- Brown wig- Cake- Candles- Brown wig



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Shot list

Laura walking into the park gates

Full body shot from behind of Laura

Golders green

Laura - Brown wig- Tassel bag


Flashback of Laura having her picture taken

Over the shoulder shot having a picture taken

Side shot of full body putting things into box

Close up shot of the box

Long shot of Laura and doll and clown walking closer cutting through cuts of them there and not

Full body shot

Full body shot walking while delusions join her which cuts to them there and not

Willesden

Willesden

Willesden

Golders Green

Golders GreenGolders Green

Laura

Laura

Laura

Laura, Doll, ClownLaura, Doll, Clown

- Brown wig - Box- Photo - Clown- Doll

Pink top and blue jeans

Laura walking up the path holding hands with delusional character

Laura walks into forest

Laura waling deeper into forest

Flashback of Laura having her picture takenFlashback of Laura having her picture taken

- Brown wig - Box- Photo - Clown- Doll- Brown wig - Box- Photo - Clown- Doll



Dark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tights + Clown + Doll costume

- Brown wig - Orange wig

- Green wig - Tassel bag





Dark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tights + Clown + Doll costumeDark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tights + Clown + Doll costume

Laura, Doll, Clown

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Shot listLaura talking to delusions through mirror

Mid shot cutting from Laura to delusions

Willesden Laura, Doll, Clown

Establishing the box

Extreme close up shot of Laura’s eyes

Long / Full body shot

Full body shot with cuts of delusions walking to her and not

Close up of the box and its content

Each content of the box will be seen through extreme close up shot

Close up shot of clown and doll with negative effect

Willesden

Golders Green

Golders Green

Golders Green

Laura

Laura

Laura

Doll, ClownDoll, Clown


Seeing each part of the box

Clown and doll staring

Title

Laura walks to the spot where she will start digging

Laura Digging the box up wile opening it



-Orange wig

- Green wig -Clown + Doll costume

Laura, Doll, Clown




Laura talking to delusions through mirror

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Golders GreenGolders Green

Dark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tightsDark blue coat, grey top, black skirt, ripped tights + Clown + Doll costume

- Box- Photo - Clown- Doll- Box- Photo - Clown- Doll

Black background and chiller font

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‘Black Swan’-2010 Opening Sequence

Enigma - How did they do it?

Woman see’s herself walking byAt the beginning of the opening sequence you see two people who looks completely the same but both dress completely different to each other and the audience will want to know why she is seeing herself.

You see a White Swan and a Black SwanTowards the middle of the opening sequenceyou see the same character but dressed in two different colours and again this links with the first image above that one is wearing and black and the other is wearing white and the audience will want to know what are the colours representing, and what is the meaning behind it.

Something is happening with the woman The audience realises that something is happening to the women as they can see the colour red in her eyes and the audience would want to know what is happening to her and what is effecting her to be like this.

EnigmaHow are we creating enigma in our opening sequences…

• By not letting the audience know why she is walking to the forest

• The audience would want to know why she is this way , how she's tired, dirty and bloody

• Also they audience would want to know why she is seeing these delusional characters and why are they are a clown and a doll.

• By not telling the audience what she is digging up from the ground.

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LEnigmaSanel

How have we improved from draft 1?...

• We draw the audience into our opening sequence more this time so the audience can feel sorry for the venerable character.

• Rather than showing someone kidnapped like we did in draft one. This time we made the audience follow the girls journey by slowly building tension.

• Draft 1 had no climax, the opening sequence was just telling the story, now we build the tension up to a climax and making the audience feel uncomfortable and wanting to watch more.

Target AudienceKaya & Sanel

Age – 15 - 18

Gender – Mostly female & male

Ethnicity – British

Location – United Kingdom

Interests/Hobbies – The ‘unreal’, how the mind works, local groups, precious memories

Lifestyle – Social, attends college/school, quite open minded

Why would our target audience be interested in our idea/plot?• Its based on real life, in London, so it will be familiar with the audience• Our target audience will be interested to learn about the drug throughout the film and

interested in her delusion• The film is based in modern time and youth culture, use of slang in a closed narrative so

they can connect and relate to what they see in the film and leave thinking about the consequences

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Why would our target audience be interested in our film because of its form?• The use of editing in the delusions will interest the target audience, they may find it funny

and eye catching

• The use of suspension type music will keep the audience at the edge of their seat imagining themselves in certain situations

Why would your target audience be interested in your film because of genre/conventions?• The target audience would be interested in how different mind works so hopefully would

be interested to understand the delusions

• The thrill of watching it would constantly keep the target audience interested at the edge of their seats

• The target audience could hopefully relate to the character while being interested imaging themselves in them kind of situations

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Feedback we received from our target audience

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Target AudienceKaya & Sanel

What feedback we received from our target audienceThe majority answers

• Our target audience do generally like psychological thrillers

• The opening sequence is interesting leading then to want to watch the whole film

• It was split answers, they would rate the film either 12 or 15

• Our target audience felt our theme and concept was good and exciting

• No feedback was given to improve

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Characters How have you developed your characters since draft 1?

• We haven't developed the characters at all, we’ve changed them completely.

• We changed our character to people that the target audience can relate to and feel sympathy and emotions or making it seem real.

• We unlike draft have no older characters, the characters in our opening sequence now are all young adults

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Characters Kaya & Sanel

Actor 1:Sanel Homer

Age:16

Character 1:Laura Hibbitt

Age:18

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The tears down the face and the scar/cut up the lip

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The dark/dull baggy clothing and the rips in the tights

The dark smudged makeup

CharactersInspirational pictures

CharactersCostume and props

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Dark wig, to give a more dark look for her character

Bloody nose to show she's not well and doesn't bother about hygiene

Dark blue baggy jacket

Black baggy knee length skirt and black tattered tights

Black runny eye make up

Dirt on face to show she's not hygienic

Black and white dirty top

Pale skin

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Side bag

Black scarf

CharactersMise –en-scene

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Name – Laura Hibbit

Gender – Female

Age – 18

Costume – Dark brown wig, black jacket, baggy skirt, dirty top,

Props – Side bag

Make-up – Pale skin, Black smudged eye make up, bloody nose, sweaty head, tears, cuts on the lip, dirty cheeks

Stereotype – A girl with mind problems, mental illness, dark and shy

Facial expression – Dizzy, dead, ‘lights are on and no ones home’

Body language – Effortless, exhausted

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Laura Hibbit –What does she represent?

Laura represents a typical youth in Britain however has a mental illness which we see how her life gets worse after forming the illness. She is to represent a venerable shy timid girl who cant tell the different from life and her mind

Denotation - A girl from LondonConnotation – A venerable girl who suffers from a mental illness

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Actor 2:Gia Alveranga

Age:17

Character 2:Doll

Age:None – Delusional

character

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Dolls dress just like the doll the character owns

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Doll make-up making it look really scary

Chelsea smile

CharactersInspirational pictures

CharactersCostume and props

All bought from www.ebay.co.uk

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£1.54 £4.20 £4.00

£3.19In 7 different colours in- White x 2- Fuchsia - Black- Red- Green- Dark red

£1.99£17.99

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