1. Assignment 9 –
Getting into
Groups
Sanel, Kaya, Rahel, Gia
2. Group Member 1 - Kaya Sumbland
What Grade did you receive from Assignment 8? D-
What did you learn from it?
• Not to be too basic
• To think carefully before I put a genre to my idea so that it fits perfectly
• Think about health and safety when planning my idea
What skills do you I bring to the group…
• Detail of idea’s
• My creativity
Targets I set myself to improve my individual presentation…
• Film theory
• Do more research into my idea and develop it cautiously
3. • I received a C- for Assignment 8 and I learned
how genre conventions are applied in my
inspirational films. I also learned how to
develop my ideas into plans for an opening
sequence.
• I bring my creativity and understanding to the
group.
• The targets I have set myself from Assignment
8 are the consideration and application of film
theories.
• WWW – good layout and well organised slides,
wide range of shots
• EBI – more detailed target audience, more
inspirational films
4. What grade did you receive and what did you learn from
assignment 8?
I received a grade D. In assignment 8, I learnt that if you ask yourself what went well and
what you felt on what you could improve on (EBI), it also helps you to improve on your
work and chances of you getting a higher grade. Also I learnt that a storyboard helps you to
have a clear idea of what your opening sequence would be like.
What Skills would I bring to the group?
I would bring creativity and enthusiasm stability because I am a annalistic person.
What are some targets you have set yourself to improve from the individual
presentation?
I have set myself an organisation target as I need to improve the way I lay out my work so
others can understand the presentation more clearly.
5. Group Member 1 - Kaya Sumbland
(My Theme and idea for opening sequence has changed as I’ve made a second draft)
Theme is Mystery / Death
My idea for the opening sequence is…
• Girl gets phone call, no one on other line
• Two days later, has loads of missed calls, she panics
• Two days later he/she calls again when she’s at home
• Scary/freaky things happen to her
• Her doorbell rings, when she opens the door her face gets deformed and she screams
dementedly
WWW
• Good detail of characters and target audience
• Good detail on my storyboard
EBI
• More detail – too basic
• Use pictures to back up my point
• Add more appropriate conventions
6. • The theme of my film is addiction and the
concept is overdose.
• Opening sequence:
1. The girl has passed out on the floor
2. She skips school and calls dealer, he threatens
to attack her
3. Flash back of how she got introduced to drugs
4. Waits for friend in the park, the friend doesn’t
turn up
5. Empty bottle of pills on the floor
7. What was your theme and/ or concept for your film?
My theme was revenge
What was your idea for opening sequence
• A car comes
• Jessica hand on the ground
• A rose on the grave
• Jessica starts following the bully Amy
• Amy gets scared.
WWW & EBI of your idea
I think that I had some good explanations
but it was very basics and could have been
more clearer.
8. Genre
THRILLER
• We want to do this genre because it will keep our audience
engaged and interested in the film.
• It has many diverse ways of creating enigma.
• We feel as a group we can challenge and meet the
conventions.
• Also we like thought of being scared.
• A large majority of our target audience find thriller’s more
exciting than other genre’s.
9. Examples of thriller films
Devil – 2010
Devil is a thriller film because throughout the film
you don’t know who the devil is and it really thrills
you to figure out who the devil is throughout the
film and at the end when you find out who it is it
really shocks you. Also at the end of the film you
think that everything is solved but its not.
10. Examples of thriller films
Buried – 2010
Buried is a thriller because throughout the movie
your always anticipating to see what will happen
next, to him in the coffin/box. Also at then end
when the sand is pouring in and he’s about to be
saved it builds up all this excitement but, when you
find out they got the wrong guy, it really shocks you.
11. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Use – Someone lies, Purpose – To keep the Paranormal Activity
False Ending won’t keep their audience thinking; Cliff
promise. A man. hanger. Change the way
Develop – A woman. you view curtain
Challenge – Something situations.
demonic and scary giving Description – We through
false hope. Keeping there would be a new
audience scared not just equilibrium, but it ended
annoyed. with a cliff hanger and the
Ending – Demon still in her.
demon is still inside her.
Use – Young girl. Purpose – To make the Disappearance of Alice
Innocent Develop – An older age, audience feel sympathy Creed
possibly a man for the character and to
Victims Challenge – Almost shock from her killing the
being the villain, the villain
victim ends up killing the Description – At the end
villain. of the film the woman
taken hostage ends up
killing the men that took
her showing no remorse
over it. The Victim kills the villain.
Convention’s based on our film
12. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Use – Middle aged male. Purpose – To show the Law abiding Citizen
Escaped Develop – Female. mentality of the character
– how smart and cunning
convicts they are.
Description – The man
planned his escape from
prison before her went in
to out smart the police
and get justice. Planning an escape from
prison.
Use – Kidnap film. Purpose – To shock the The Human Centipede
Shock Develop – Making it audience, showing a real
psychological. life situation in a
Challenge – Making it disturbing and terrifying
horrific and unexpected. manner.
Not predictable . Description – The villain
Disturbing. holds 3 people hostage
and shocks the audience
in doing some extremely
unexpected disgusting the Takes people hostage and
audience creates them into a human
centipede.
Convention’s based on our film
13. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Use – To show someone's Purpose – To show Saw 2
Blood hurt psychological state of
Develop – To disgust the characters and their
audience horrible mentality, also
Challenge – To present a how much they believe in
symbol from belief using something
pain and blood horrifying Description – When the
the audience serial killer cut out a jigsaw
from a victims skin to show Cut out trademark some
his symbol/trademark. someone's skin.
Use – To show ghost exist Purpose – To terrify the The exorcist of Emily Rose
Supernatural Develop – Scaring the audience showing that
audience putting the supernatural is stronger
supernatural in realistic than yourself and can
situations controlling your mind.
Challenge – Showing the Description – The victim is
supernatural invading possessed and cant
personal space and control herself, she forms
someone's mind. into unnatural positions
and talks in demonic Possessed on the floor and
voices of the demon. saying demonic voices.
Convention’s based on our film
14. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Use – A man get’s away At the end of the film The Town
Relief at and starts his life again the guy gets away and
else where. start his life again
the end. elsewhere with no
attachments
Develop – It becomes At the end of the film Devil
scary and it plays with the man is sorry for
your mind. what he did and he is
rescued yet there is
still tension about
where the devil goes
next.
Challenge – Making it so At the end the police The Human Centipede
disturbing and horrific - come over and even
although your relieved, though there's loads of
your still disgusted and gory killing the girl in
feel uncomfortable.
the middle will be
recued.
15. Convention Use / Develop / Purpose and Examples from
Thriller Challenge Description Films
Use (villain) – Can’t see You don’t see the Psycho
Villain and details, remains a villain killing nor who
Victim mystery. they are killing the
Use (victim) – An
woman in the shower,
attractive innocent
woman. it makes the audience
wonder who it is.
Develop (villain) – You Scream
can hear that it’s a male The villain is a male
in their voice, not that and you see the girl he
much of a mystery. killed hurt but you
Develop (victim)– Both
don’t see how he killed
makes and females, you
can see them hurt but her or the gory details.
not them getting hurt.
Hose of wax
Challenge (villain) – Very The victim is a male
shy and insecure. who is killed by a shy
Challenge (victim) – and vulnerable villain,
Male, showing him in a
you see the victims get
gore like manner hurt.
killed and in detail
what it looks like.
16. Inspirational Films
The exorcism of Emily Rose Saw – 2004 The disappearance of Alice
– 2005 Creed – 2009
Drama/ Horror Horror/ Mystery Crime/ Thriller
When Emily is possessed When Jigsaw cuts out a When the innocent
on the floor in unnatural trademark symbol out of kidnaped girl at the end
positions also when she one of his victims skin. of the film, kills the men
talks in demented tones. who kidnapped her.
17. Inspirational Films
Law Abiding Citizen- 2009 Human Centipede – 2009 Paranormal Activity – 2007
Thriller/ Crime Horror Horror / Thriller
At the end, instead of a
The way he had Being a film about Kidnap new equilibrium, the film
planned his escape its shocking in the sense ends with the demon still
from prison for 10 you wouldn’t think this being in the girl and the
years before going in. would happen to them. problem isn't resolved.
18. Idea 1
Revenge
Gruesome Death
• Someone gets hit by a car
• Violent
• Pain
Struggle
Idea 1 • horror
Revenge
Sadness
• Crying over the person death.
Depression • Loss
Bullying • Grief
• Physical
• Verbal
• cyber bulling
19. Idea 2
Mystery
Supernatural demon
Murder
• Violence
• Assault
Idea 2 • Death
Shadow walking
Mystery
Secrets
• Hidden
Mystery of the killer
Solving
Vulnerable victim • Unknown death
• Clues
• Puzzles
• Curiosity
21. Possession
Why we choose this theme
• The reason we choose possession was because of the excitement of getting
scared and we thought it would have been an interesting theme for our target
audience.
• Most thriller movies are based on possession such as ‘Mirrors and Paranormal
Activity’ and most teenagers would watch it with friends too soften the fear
and perhaps make it darkly comic.
• Such films can bring about a giddy sense of fear and adrenaline that appeals to a
wide range of target audience.
• Also we asked everyone out of our three ideas (Revenge, Mystery and
Possession) which one would they want to watch more and most of them said
possession. So we decided in the end that possession would be our theme.
22. Idea Development Option
Our first meeting!
On our first meeting we all discussed each other’s individual idea
and then collaborated them together coming up firstly with revenge.
We then decided to make 2 more idea’s to have some more variety
which we then came up with the mystery idea and lastly the
possession idea. We then as a group decided it would be best to do
possession as our theme as it is the most thrilling and we though we
could really develop into a really good opening sequence that
creates a lot of enigma.
23. Idea Development Option
We collaborated multiple ideas into one idea and worked towards developing it
from…
• Kaya’s idea of possession and the devil and a theme of religion
• Sanel's idea of the escaped convict and the news
• Rahel’s idea of pictures across the walls and the concept of hostage
• Gia’s idea of where we should locate the O.S
Everyone is contributing by…
• Meeting up 3 times a week
• In each meeting everybody comes up with new developing idea’s
• Watching more thriller films for extra inspiration
24. Whole Film
• Gwyn (villain) talks about escaping from
prison
• Gwyn escapes from prison
• Takes Paige (victim) hostage and does
demonic possessions on her
• Gwyn takes more people hostage to possess
as a statement
• Paige kills Gwyn
25. Opening Sequence
• Gwyn (Villain) makes a video and puts it on
the internet
• Gwyn watches the news and her video is
played
• They show how the tape is shown across
the internet
• They play the tape with Gwyn and Paige
(Victim) holding her hostage
• The news ends with a dramatic line telling
the world to keep safe
26. ENIGMA
• Current films in the Thriller genre create enigma
in their opening sequences.
• In our opening sequence we are going to create
enigma by using the concept of kidnap which we
got inspiration from Kiss The Girls
The use of dark settings in Kiss The
Girls gave us the inspiration to use
dark and secluded settings in our
opening sequence.
27. How we will create enigma
In our opening sequence we will create enigma by…
• The news reader saying very dramatic lines at the end of her report which will
alarm the audience
• Not showing why Gwyn is the way she is
• The audience will want to watch more to know more about her cult
• The audience will want to know further what happens to Paige – and if she will
survive.
• Also the music we will play through out the opening sequence will add tension
and build it up to a climax getting the audience excited.
28. Target Audience
Age – 15 - 18
Gender – Females
Ethnicity – European, mainly religious countries
Location – Inner city; London
Interests/Hobbies – Religion, The unknown
Lifestyle – Hectic, religious, but not overly religious lifestyle
TARGET AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
From the feedback we received on our questionnaires, 4 in 5 of them though we should
make the villain have the mental illness schizophrenia as they thought it would be more
interesting. Also they all thought the opening sequence created enigma making them watch
more, but again 4 out of 5 of them liked the sound of the whole film and what it is about.
35. Characters
Name – Gwyn DuPont
Gender – Female
Age – 32
Costume - White dirty tattered hospital scrubs
Props – Video camera
Make up – Very muddy and blood stained face
Stereotype – Crazy possessed woman
Character representation – The villain
Body Language – Very open, lanky
Facial Expression – Open eyed, dramatic movements
36. Characters
Name – Paige Shay
Gender – Female
Age – 17
Costume - jeans and a shirt
Props – None
Make up – Run down mascara, pink checks
Stereotype – Young, teenage innocent girl
Character representation – Victim
Body Language – Timid, shy
Facial Expression – Terrified, confused
37. Characters
Name – Audrey Donahue
Gender – Female
Age – 42
Costume - Long, fitted, pencil dress
Props – Microphone
Make up – Professional, classy, subtle but there
Stereotype – Middle class woman
Character representation – News reporter
Body Language – Straight back, good posture
Facial Expression – Tight faced, not showing expression
38. Location
• This is the Janitors spare room in the basement of our school.
• It’s always accessible apart from the holiday’s if there are no revision sessions on.
• We would film after school and film during in our free periods.
• There is no need for any health and safety concerns, it is in a very reliable environment.
39. Location
• This is outside the inisfree house next to our school building.
• It’s always accessible as we only need the street and the look of the building.
• We can film after school or we would travel from home on the holidays and do it.
• There is no need for any health and safety concerns, it is in a very reliable environment.
40. Narrative
Our film is an open narrative because at the
end of our film it’s a cliff hanger, you don’t
know what will happen to Paige and the rest
of the possessed soul’s she’s trapped with
after she kills Gwyn.
It is also linear narrative because the whole
film is shown in order of its occurrence. From
start, middle to end.
41. Film Theory
Tzvetan Todorov – Narrative film theorist
Equilibrium – Gwyn is in prison and Paige leads her normal life.
Disequilibrium – Gwyn takes Paige hostage.
New Equilibrium – Paige kills Gwyn.
Claude Levi-Strauss– Narrative film theorist
Good Vs. Evil
Paige Gwyn
Vladimir Propp – Film theorist
We don’t feel that our film applies to the Propp theory as only
one of our characters fit his criteria – that being the villain.
