Final Idea - Miss Begum

Final Idea

In our group, we have decided to come up with the final idea for our own thriller production. Our thriller narrative is about a young girl around 18 year old who breaks up with her boyfriend because she fell in love with someone else. The boyfriend isn't very happy with her decision, so he then sneak to her house at night time and murder her.

Our Title: It's Not Over.

Narrative/Plot:

- The scene starts with a mid-long shot introducing the female character's walking home at night time around 9pm and onwards. The location for this would be in Great Cambridge Roundabout underground pathway, this location would be suitable for this first shot because it's dark and look isolated at night time. As she's walking, a close-up shot is being used to show that she's texting her boyfriend saying ''It's over ! I'm sorry but I'm in love with someone else..'' and then she turns off her phone and puts it back into her pocket. An extreme long shot and a floor camera level shot is being used to film her walking to her home. The lighting is natural mixed with low-key lighting as she carries on walking home alone.

We then see mid-long shot again from the behind of the female character as she opens the door and enters her house. As she enters her house, a close-up shot in being used to film the door handle from the inside of the house twisting and then she enters the house. The lighting here will be low-key as no one else is at home and the house is covered in darkness with no lights.

As the scene developed, we then see the female victim enters her room and go to the bath room to have a shower, the shot that's being used here is a long shot. As she enters the bathroom, a zoom camera movements is being used here to zoom out slowly as she's taking a shower behind the curtains. The lighting here will be back-lighting showing her silhouettes and to shows that she's vulnerable and physically weak. After finishing her bath, she then go back into her room to dry her self up and get changed into her white pyjamas. A high-angle shot mixed with long shot is being used to film this scene. The female victim then lays down to her bed to sleep. A middle shot is being used here from a high angle mixed with bird-eye views to shows that she's innocent and to show her vulnerability. The lighting is dark and low-key as she switches off the lights to go to sleep.

As the female is laying down in bed sleeping, a panning shot is being used to film from the end of her bed slowly showing her feet up to her body and to her head showing the clock on the table next to her bed letting the audience knows that it is 1:30am. The female then wakes up from a nightmare, she then decides to go down to her kitchen to get a cup of water to calm herself down. The camera is being placed on her table showing that she's getting out of bed and walking out of her room. She then walks downstairs to her kitchen, a high angle shot is being used from upstairs balcony filming her walking down the stairs and turns to her kitchen. As she enters the kitchen, she then goes to get a cup and opens her fridge to get water. The camera will be placed inside the fridge showing her face as she reaches for her drink.

Following on from this, she drinks her water then look at the cup to see how much waters left in the cup, a close-up shot is being used to film the reflection from the cup showing her ex boyfriend standing behind her holding a knife in his hands. A reaction shot is being used here to film her reaction as she's getting frightened. Fear and different connotations is being created. Carrying on from this scene, a point of view shot is being used to show that she's slowly moving back as her ex boyfriend move towards her. He then reaches to pull her hair and stabs non-stop in her stomach. A close-up shot is being used here to film her facial expressions as she's being attacked showing that she's helpless. Also to film the ex boyfriend's hand holding the knife stabbing her continuously. The fast editing mixed with shot reverse shot is being used here to show the attack at a faster pace to build up tension and create suspense.She then falls to the floor, slow editing will be used here to create a dramatic fall of the female victim. As soon as she hits the floor, the setting of the scene changes to her bedroom instantly, a reaction shot mixed with close-up shot will be used to show the relieved of a realization that it was only a nightmare. To comfort herself, she looks around her surrounding. However, it's not long before she notices that a dark figure, holding a knife is gazing at her with cold angry eyes. Then the scene will end with an instant blackout and the title of will slowly appears to the audience.

At the end, the audience is left with horrific ideas about what could happen to the victim. This builds up tension and act as a cliff-hanger. By having a cliff-hanger, it draws attention and increases the audience's interest in my thriller production.

Narrative Structure: Aristotle to have a beginning, middle and an end & Bathes to includes the five features which are suitable for the thriller genre.

Charaters: Female victim, antagonist.

Mise en scene:

- Locations: Home, Street

- Lighting: Natural lighting, back lighting, low-key lighting.

Costume:

- Female victim: White/Cream jumper + a coat, light blue jean.

- Boyfriend (antagonist): Black trouser, black hoodie + black coat.

Film influences:

- Scream 1996 influenced us the idea of the female victim is home alone which we thought would be affective to use this similar idea to develop our thriller opening.
- Takers 2010 influenced us the idea of obssesion which is similar to our thoughts of our antagonist to be obssesed towards the female victim.
- Saw 2004 influenced us the idea of death which gave us many ideas of how we want our victim to be killed in order to create fear and tension towards our audience.
- Panic Room 2002 influenced us the idea of the mysterious killer that sneaks into the female victim's home which we thought would help our thriller narrative to be more mysterious and the idea of being followed by a criminal would create more tension and chill-excitement towards our audiences.

Why is the opening conventional to a thriller?
- Our thriller opening is conventional to thriller because we introduce the characters which is female victim as soon as the scene starts and also the antagonist with hidden identity, these are thriller based. The narrative includes death, obssesion and psycho which conventional to thriller, this was also inspired from numbers of famous thriller productions.

What themes does our thriller present?

- The themes that our thriller presents are Obsession, Love(relationship) and Death. This is conventional to thriller because these themes are strongly highlighted within the thriller genre and the idea of obsession leads to murder in fast paced will creates fear and chill excitement towards the audience.

What response will I get from the audience?

- I really hope that my thriller production will get good feedback from the audience as I have tried my best to meet the audience expectations of what they would like to see in a thriller and also to avoid what they don't wants to see. Whilst watching my thriller opening, I would like my audience to feel pitiful, fear, confused and shocked because these are the emotions we wants our audiences to feel whilst making the production and through discussing.

Conclusion

- Our group have finally discussed and agreed to came up with the final idea for our thriller production. We have categorised what makes our thriller conventional and have also identified which MES, Cinematography we would like to use for our thriller opening.