In our first meeting on the 13/10/14, our whole group was to agree and decide on a group narrative. We discussed ideas and concepts in which we had at the time, reflecting on the ideas we had come up with to help us decide on a final and effective group narrative. Us; as a group decided to plan our first draft of a narrative, sharing ideas towards our different narratives helping to create one effective narrative.
As a group, for mise-en-scene had to come up with ideas in relation towards this technique. For the main scene, the main character; Britanny will be on top of a bridge about to commit sucide. After this scene, the next scene will jump towards the flashbacks, firstly in the house, watching a happy film in the living room to juxtapose to upcoming events that Brittany is about to experience. The next flashback is going to be on the way home from school in her uniform. She will hear a leaf crunch from some sort of boot. The last flashback will be to the extreme of her paranoia, when she is on the way home from seeing friends and in order to make it home she has to walk through an alley way. She finds out it is just a friendly runner on his daily run. The antagonist will be wearing a dark hoodie, to enphasise the hidden identity and mystery towards this opening seuqence. The hero will be wearing very neutral colours and soft knitwear to help the audience understand her caring personality. The victim will be wearing very young clothes to help the audience interpet that she is a young and vulnerable teenager.
For cinematography, as a group we decided to use high and low angles throughout the sequence. This will help making the characters more suitbale for their role as it adds effect towards intimidation for the low angle for the antagonist and weakness for high angles. There will be panning used throughout flashbacks, mainly visible when the main character is walking home through the alley way. This will then be used when the runner is running past Brittany. This is going to be used to represent the amount of paranoia she is experiencing.
We decided that throughout our opening seuqence, we are going to involve eerie music to give of a sense of tension within all fo the seuqence and make the worst part of scenes more shocking. Some diegetic sound will be used through some of the sequence. For example; during one of the flashbacks, when she is walking home from school, the sound of crunching from the antagonists boot will be enphasised, to show the audience how she is hearing things, louder and scarier due to her paranoia the stalker has made her experience. There will be a techniqe used of on screen sound, when the happy movie is playing to represent the mood that Brittany is feeling to show the audience that no matter where she is, the stalker will always find her and make sure he is always on her mind.On the bridge when she is about to commit suicide, there will be serious, tense music to highlight the importance of what she is about to do to herself. This then juxtaposes with the contrapuntal music when she changes her perspective after she meets the hero, Carol. This then makes the scene much more effective. The knife sound when the antagnoist kills Carol will be enphasises to show the injury she is now in and make the audience symphathise the innocence of her.
I think group planning is an effective organisation as it allows us to become more familar with each concept and why we are going to use it. It also helps prepare us for when we are going to film , giving us more confidence towards what we are filming and why we are filming. This will also show within our sequence as you would notice that everything will now be more professional and purposeful, which will make easier for my group and our filming skills.
You have provided a minimal analysis of your group’s storyboard, explaining some of what your sequence will consist of and what you hope it will create.
ReplyDeleteYou need to:
1) Pick three specific examples of micro-elements used from each group member’s individual storyboard in the sequence that you feel are the most significant - do a detailed PEER analysis of these
2) Say what thrillers you, as a group, have taken inspirations from and why - where is this evident in your storyboard?
3) Make sure you make it clear that you are referring to your group's storyboard
4) Mention how the group storyboard came about - looked over each group member's individual storyboard and agreed on ideas