Group Narrative-Miss Georgiou

Group Narrative

For our group production, I, Jake Butler worked with Molly Emerson and Claire Golightly

Individual narrative idea

The narrative is an important aspect of any thriller film, as it can dictate the appropriate target audience for the film
The narrative is the plot of the film.

Idea for a new thriller film

Claire's thriller sequence will show the audience the different events that leads the main character "Cameron" committing suicide by hanging himself.
The beginning of my thriller sequence will start with the audience seeing
The main character "Cameron" will have a dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality) - his name is unisex
Suicide - main character - twisted - hanging
Dark
Voiceover
"I know what you're thinking.." - talks directly to the audience - engages them

Following the suicide scene the audience will be shown a flashback of a dinner scene between Cameron and him mum.
Quiet and awkward - his mum attempts to start a conversation - she is the only one talking
"How are you feeling?" "Your doctor told me that you've stopped going to therapy..."
Cameron begins to get annoyed at her
"Do you ever shut up?" under his breath - foreshadows him killing her

The girlfriend "Harmony" and the mum "Grace" both have positive, uplifting names that tell the audience that they are the victims/innocent
In the final scene the audience will be introduced to "Harmony", the girlfriend of Cameron. She will arrive at the house shortly after the murder of Grace
Girlfriend comes to his house
Calling out to the mom and boy
Takes shoes off etc
After Harmony finds the mum dead at the kitchen table
Screen goes dark

Advantages: Creates an enigma
Disadvantages: Her idea is quite long and detailed and as a group we may not be able to fit it all into an opening sequence.





My Narrative Ideas

My idea: 

For the thriller sequence was to have a stalker ex boyfriend chase and hunt his ex girlfriend around the local area, such as forests and the satin and alleyways. I also wanted to show the audience the backstory and make them interested and intrigued by the background, making them ask questions and keep them guessing. The chase scene shall create suspense which keeps the audience entertained and on the edge of their seat. This may be difficult to film however, as we would have to clear the area and it may even be too dark to capture most of the scenes, which comes as a disadvantage, however an advantage can be is that the plots are completely different and it is a fresh idea.

Molly's idea was:

In my own film I want to concentrate on a very disturbed character. With dissociative identity disorder (multiple personally) the character will be male and named Cameron, due to it being a unisex name and portraying his split personality. The mother and girlfriend will remain innocent whose names are Harmony and Grace to remain positive and shown to represent good. The young boy struggles with having to deal with the evil other side of film and continues to end his life right at the start. The audience see his death and then wander what made him do this a voice over will then be present and lead into a flash back. The scene flashbacks into where his troubles began, he begins having a conversation his his mother over dinner but then suddenly and violently turns and murders her with a knife. This is a good idea as it is a psychological plot that is well thought out and shock some in a good way, however one disadvantage may be that it is quite confusing and may be hard for the viewer to follow.

Final group narrative
Our group decided to mainly use molly's idea and to start our opening sequence to a thriller film by showing the audience the main antagonist, Cameron committing suicide, this will create an enigma early on the film to keep the audience hooked. The first shot will be of his feet dangling to show the audience that he has hung himself, followed by a voiceover that will be directly to the audience. The scene will then flashback to before the suicide to show the audience Cameron and his mum eating dinner. Things will escalate between the pair and cameron will end up murdering his own mother. His father or brother will later find him dead, which is where the film ends with the end credits playing out the scene.

Disturbia

Narrative Theory

The narrative that my group follows is aristole's. His theory is that the narrative focuses on themes within the film. We believe that our group narrative will incorporate two of his suggested themes. these are a dramatic question and sympathy.Our group cannot follows vladimirs theory as it is not a fairytale and it does not follow todorovs as we have no equilllibrium and it does not figure itself out.