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 where everything changes for her. The young girl 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:• The young girl hallucinates at the door not knowing if

it’s the killer or her friend.

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...  

Mise en Scene

Mise en Scene

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

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 our character is positioned next to what she sees. Also we will use a close up of our villains face in a hooded figure , leads to 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.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.  

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.

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.

Influences

As a team we had many influences not just for ideas but actual film openings from these different films.Shutter Island is an example of a psychological thriller film. It's a film that has been known to fool and confuse it's audience. The opening scene to this film very subtly gives little hints at the character (Leonardo DiCaprio) has something wrong as he is seen panting in front of the mirror abruptly splashing his face. Once watched the film, this opening scene plays an important part as the audience realise how the beginning hinted that something was wrong with him from the start. So we wanted to use this in our opening.

Other films such as 'Regression', 'Gone Girl' and "The Sixth Sense' also influenced us in making our film opening, using themes such as perception, mystery, death and mind. Grips audience gets them involved in trying to figure out what is wrong with the main character, as of her unusual behavior throughout the film. Audience follow a Thrill-seeking adventure to find the murderer and leave Aleena's mind at rest.