Planning: Initial Ideas - Miss begum

Planning Initial Ideas

1.      Narrative: A young women moves to her new home to live on her own, one night she heard her doorbell rings, she went to open the door and see a little girl crying outside her door. She then feels sympathy and adopts the girl and she claimed that her mother was trying to kill her and doesn’t have any related family members. The little girl appears to have a tormented mind-set, she claimed to have an invisible friend and draws a lot of disturbing pictures about horrific killing and extreme violent pictures. One night, the women had a dream that flash back her memories when she was young teenager and was pregnant, she was too scared to do abortion so she gave birth to the child, chocked the child to death and left the child in the public toilet. And now her nightmares are becoming more concern as everything the child said about what her mother did to her was exactly the same thing as what she did. The child appears to be a spirit of the women’s child and came back to torture her for her horrific actions she did in her past.

2.      Title: ‘’The Unborn’’

3.      Sub-genre: Psychological Thriller

4.      Characters: Evil child, female victim

5.      Narrative structure: Aristotle & Barthes

6.      MES:

-          Location: House, park, public toilet.

-          Iconography: Blood, Knife, Colour pencils, Papers…

-          Costume of characters:

Evil Child: White costume with black eyes make-up.

Female Victim: Bright colours clothing.

-          Lighting: Low-key lighting, background lighting, top and under lighting.

-          Body language of key characters:

      Evil Child: small, physically weak, mysterious, and confident.

      Female Victim: quite small and short, clueless, innocent, physically wear and vulnerable.

7.      Advantages of this idea: Conventional to psychological thriller, the idea of the evil can help to manipulate the audience and create fear and also have clear narrative structure for the viewers to be understood.

8.      Disadvantages of this idea: May not have the permissions to for the child to act as the devil character and the child might not know how to act. Might be time consuming because the child might be messing around and not taking filming seriously.

Abdullah’s Idea

1.      Narrative: a couple that cannot conceive a child and they wants to adopt a child. The couple with their bad fortune visit a fortune teller to read their destiny and to see if they can have a child of their own one day or they will have to go ahead with their plan to adopt. The fortune teller is petrified and taken back by the couples impending destiny. The fortune teller warns the couple that there is darkness that will soon to occur. The couple leave unmoved by the fortune teller’s advice. The couple are now more determined to adopt and they visit a children’s home and the wife sees a small child sitting in the corner all alone. They instantly feel a connection and the wife think this is the child they will adopt and she firmly believes show has a motherly connection with the child but the husband is not too sure. The wife persists and she adopts the child with her husband very suspicious. When the child arrives in the couple’s house, the dog runs away and never returns also the couple have increasing strain on the marriage ever since they have adopted the child. The father has an unexpected and untimely death and then the child tortures and kills the mother and the child may have done the same with the father.

2.      Tittle: ‘Restless’

3.      Sub-genre: Psychological thriller

4.      Characters: Child (demented, demon), female victim and father/husband.

5.      Narrative structure: Propp or Todorov

6.      MES:

-          Location: Family house

-          Iconography: blood, knife which is used to kill

-          Costumes: the child is made to look demented and the mother costumes of a typical victim (simple clothing light colour clothing’s)

-          Low-key lighting

7.      Advantages:

-          Very simple and easy characters to use, child, female victim.

8.      Disadvantages:

-          Filming or find a children’s home.

-          Getting a child to play that role.

-          Finding a fortune teller or someone that can play it well.

Javel’s Idea

1.      Narrative: a man come across a theatre and watches a group of ballerinas rehearsing, he then sees one particular girl who he seems to take fascination to. He then becomes really obsessed with this ballerina. After a while of wanting her, he then decides to kidnap her and keep her as a prisoner.

2.      Title: ‘Silent Audience’

3.      Sub-genre: Psychological thriller

4.      Characters: Antagonist, victim and extras.

5.      Narrative structure: Aristotle & Barthes

6.      MES

-          Location: Millfield Theatre

-          Costumes:

·         Antagonist – Long black coat

·         Victim – Ballet outfit

·         Extras – ballet or dance outfits

-          Lighting: natural lighting.

7.      Advantages: This is quite conventional as it includes themes such as Love/Obsession, kidnapping and has a clear narrative structure.

8.      Disadvantages: being allowed or gaining permission to work within the location at certain times.

Rex’s Idea

1.      Narrative: in a library the lighting goes off, unknown murders are being committed through stabbing and the use of silencers.  When people realise that murders have occurred, they scream and call 999. The entrance is locked automatically, there’s more murders are being committed. In the end when the police arrive and they are killed, the antagonists would be the survivors.

2.      Title: ‘Silent killers’

3.      Sub-genre: Crime thriller

4.      Characters: antagonist, protagonist and victims

5.      Narrative structure: Todorov

6.      MES

-          Location: Library

-          Iconography: knife, guns, blood and phone

-          Costumes:

·         Typical girls or boys or child wearing bright colour costumes that connotates vulnerability and weakness.

·         Protagonist also wears bright colour clothes.

·         Antagonist wears black clothes.

7.      Advantages: conventional to crime thriller, the idea can make the audience think about how random the crime of murder can occur even in the most quite place.

8.      Disadvantages: Hard for a child to act our murder scenes. People may be unable to act and the library might not allow this activity to be access.

 - My idea and Abdullah's idea are most likely to be used as we have provided much details in our narrative and is more easier to have a vision of these idea to be done as a production.