Individual ideas for a narrative - Miss Georgiou

My idea for my thriller scene

Its late at night and a little girl around 10 years old is playing with her dolly's in her bedroom. The lighting is low key and her room is set in an old fashion room. She hears someone singing downstairs so she goes downstairs to see what it is. We see a close up of her face and see her slowly walking down the stairs and see how nervous she is as she is trembly. Scary non diagetic soundtrack playing in the background as she is walking down the stairs to create suspense and build tension. As she reaches the bottom of the stairs we see the hallway and the chandelier is swinging. We hear the diagetic sound of her footsteps and the floor squeaking as she walks along. The sound of someone singing varys in sound goes loud and quiet. She walks into the kitchen and in the corner of her eye sees a scary little girl in a white long night gown who is quite dirty and is singing and crying. She slowly walks over to the little girl and the background soundtrack starts to get faster and louder. As she reaches the crying female actress she puts her hand out to touch her. As she does the music stops and the crying girl looks up and we see an extreme close up of her face as she screams.The use of the convention of a young female victim is also used as it shows how vulnerable they are and that they are an easy target.  My film inspirations are from the thriller 'Mama' as it uses the idea of children. Also from the Amityville horror as they use the idea of little girls being haunted.

Research into editing - Miss Georgiou

Film editing is the process of manipulating and rearranging video shots to create a new work. Editing is commonly considered to be part of post production process. The film editor uses and works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture.

In the thriller 'Orphan' in the ending fight scene they use a montage. This is the speed of editing where shots are quickly juxtaposed together. We see this at 27 seconds to 37 seconds. When is shows a number of different shots of the two female characters fighting and the frightened little female character. The high speed of the different shots increases the speed of the clip and creates excitement and the convention of tension which makes the viewers nervous to what will happen next.

Also there is a different timing of shots. This is when we see the young female actress sliding down the snow to reach the gun. Quickly followed by the fast pace of the shot of the close up of the female actress with the knife. This helps to create suspense as it shows theaudience the fast pace of the fight and gives the a sense of how they would feel if they was in this position.

The 180 rule. This is used when the two actors are fighting as we never see the other scenery other than both the characters fightin on the lake. We never see the house in this clip. The use of the 180 rules enables the audience to visually connect with unseen movement happening around and behind the immedidate subject. It is also important in the narration of a battle scene. It also helps viewers not to get confused with the clips.

A straight cut is also used in this scene. This happens when we see the two female actresses fighting at one point and then we see a straight cut when they change the viewpoint to the little girl sitting on the hill of snow. This shows the different feelings of the characters and causes tension as the viewers wonder what the little girl will do to help her mother. The use of the female victim is also a convention as it shows that she is vulnerable.

This research will help us when we make our own thriller clip as we can see which different editing techniques will be appropriate for our specific thriller clip. It will also help us as each different technique causes different effects for viewers which means we can use specific ones to cause more tension and fright so we can make our thriller clip the best we can. 

Research into Mise en Scene - Miss Georgiou

Mise en Scene is a French word meaning composing the scene. Mise en scene has a number of different meanings. The actual meaning is how everything is positioned and designed in your set. Mise en scene refers to everything that appears before the camera and its arrangement- composition, sets, props, actors, costumes, sounds and lighting. I have chosen the opening credits from the film 7 where i will be picking out different aspects of mise en scene. 

Lighting 

The main lighting in this clip is low key lighting. Low key lighting adds suspense as it gives a sense of darkness and loneliness which frightens the viewers. Chatoscuro is visible in this picture from the clip as we see the shadow. The use of the shadow is conventional to the thriller as the audience are unaware of what is going on in the scene this creates suspense as the audience are confused and wondering who this shadow is which is also another convention which is hidden identity. The use of the picture being black and white juxtaposes the colours portraying a sense of good and evil and foreshadowing that there will be  a hero and a villain. 

Makeup and Costumes. 

As this opening scene follows the conventions of a thriller using hidden identity we do not see the characters face therefore do not see his makeup on his face or his costume. On the other hand we also see that the character has makeup on his hands making them look dirty. This creates a sense of enigma as we do not know where he has been or what he has been doing to get those dirty hands. This makes viewers more willing to watch the rest of the film as they want to find out what else happens. 

 Body language 

In this clip 

Setting

As we watch the opening clip we only get flashes of were the character may be and it is hard to work out where he actually is. This creates mystery as it is quite an unusual place to be. As he is developing photos it makes us think the character could be a stalker or could have an obsession with someone. Also the colours in this clip are very dark and show a lot of red. Red could symbolize danger or blood this could foreshadow the events they are about to come in the rest of the movie. 

Camera Angle

In this opening clip we only see extreme close ups which are mainly of the characters hands. This lets us see his hands in more detail.This is highly effective as we can not see any other part of the background or setting and it could portray that his hands are a big aspect of the film as he could use them to kill other characters. This also creastes mystery as we wonder who the character is and what he looks like.

Mise en Scene will help me to create my own thriller clip as i can understand which aspects create mystery and help create a sense of fear. This will make my thriller clip more exciting for people to watch. It also helps me  to show which lighting creates different things such as shadows which also adds to making my thriller more scary.