Pitch for Paramnesia

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Paramnesia Ayesha Pervaiz Faz Bhatti Nicola Tarrant Lizzie Tovey L-MDH-5E

Transcript of Pitch for Paramnesia

ParamnesiaAyesha PervaizFaz BhattiNicola TarrantLizzie ToveyL-MDH-5E

The Overview

Sub-genre: Psychological Thriller

A young girl experiences a murder of a close family member and its affecting every aspect of her life. Once she starts seeing things and having flashbacks back to the horrifying night, everything changes. Aleena becomes obsessed with trying to find the killer; from recording news bulletins to keeping a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings about them. She wants revenge, but something is trying to stop her. 

The three main themes featuring in our film opening are: 

Perception Mind  Death

InteriorCastlefield house – Bedroom, Entrance, Kitchen

Exterior Outside of the house At the door of the house.

Permissions All of our planned locations have been authourised.

Locations

Structure 

• We planned out the structure of our opening scene using a storyboard

• Beginning , Middle , End Beginning:• Shots outside the house , inside the house. • Causes suspense on what is going to happen. • Highlights the atmosphere

Middle:• Shots in the house , different angles and shots of

Aleena• Reveal to the audience her being traumatized (with

the props)• Flash backs End:• Hallucinates the killer when its actually her friend Ella

(Nicola)Audience would think • Why she is traumatized?• What caused her hallucinating?• Why are there lots of newspapers everywhere?

Representation:

Character  

Character 1: Aleena (Ayesha)  18 year old girl suffering with a

mental illness and is traumatized  due to a past experience which has made her the way she is now. Protagonist of the film.

Character 2: Villain (Faz) – Male character in the film who is in

Aleena's flash backs. He commits the murder of Aleena's sister.

Character 3: Ella (Nicola) Friend who is concerned about Aleena.

She discovers a something that gives her an idea about why she is traumatized.

How?Mise en Scene

Settings: Place•  Castlefield house- most will be filmed inside the house • A Couple shots outside in the beginning of the opening

scene to display to the audience where it is set and the atmosphere of the scene = quiet, lonely etc...

Settings: Time  • Late afternoon – a girl on her own , late afternoon

illustrating alienation from the world and the people around her.

Props:  Throughout the scene we will use a variety of props to

make it look as realistic as possible.   Most props will have a meaning behind it such as:   Empty boxes of medicine    Newspapers   Glass    Clothes(scattered everywhere on the floor)   Knife    and more...  

Lighting:   Low key lighting illustrating atmosphere and emotion

throughout the character.     Reveals to the audience that throughout the scene it

will be negative    

How ? Camerawork

We already have ideas for our camera angles in which we are going to use. Every cut is going to  have a different camera angle. Firstly we are going to use a mid-shot angle of a hooded figure but this is also a pov shot of what Ayesha (our main character) sees as she opens the door. Then we have a over the shoulder shot to show where abouts our character is positioned next to what she sees. Also we will use a close up of our villains face in a hooded figure. Also in this shot we have our character looking up to the camera to indicate a sense of creepiness about him to make him look intimidating and scary to the audience. After this we will use another close up of ayesha's face to capture the fear of how she doesn't want to look at what's infront of her.Her hands covering her face being a major contributer to show her fear as she's physically not letting herself look at it and is trying to hide from it. The other shots repeat a similar format as included are some more midshots and over the shoulder shots as well as close ups of a poster on a wall and a pov shot at the end of this scene as one of one of the character's reading the newspaper entitled 'Murder'. These different shots are used for different effects for the audience and to create suspension in different ways as possible, A pov shot is effective for example as it makes the audience feel as if their there witnessing the events themselves as if they are there. This grips them to the edge of their seat as to what is to happen since their witnessing it through their eyes, causing them to fear for example what the character is fearing too as they have been put in their position. 

Close ups are going to be a major contributor to our opening so we can capture the horror on our character's face when she is seeing all these flashbacks. We wanted to use flashbacks in our opening too as we thought it would be an effective way of creating a mash together of all our characters thought at once, showing how her mind isn't exactly stable and how a lot of things are troubling her. It's an effective way of showing memories and how people don't forget things but remember bits that are significant and those are the bits that stand out in our flashback montage we are planning. I.e Faz' Hand covered in blood being a key shot, as the redness of the blood will stand out and be very bold for the audience to see and for our character to remember. 

Sound

Also we have started thinking about sound too and how we will need to use diegetic sound effects of knocking on the door for example but also eerie non diegetic music added to create a tense and eerie mood. We will change the non-diegetic music depending on what will be going on in the scene. We all thought that if i played the piano this would be effective to add into our piece and we are going to demonstrate with different sounds to see which one fits the best. But for flashbacks sequences we are going to use a series of pre-recorded sounds of screams and diegetic clashes and eerie noises to build up suspension.