Individual ideas for a narrative - Miss Georgiou

I am going to use examples from other films to help me with my research into making a conventional thriller film. I have been watching many thriller clips in class and had to do research of my own. I also used my own knowledge of what makes me jump and puts me on the edge of my seat to come up with ideas. I was inspired by both Scream and Se7en.

In Scream I really like the fact that the killer remains unseen during the opening. Although the victim and the audience never see the killer; he manages to strike fear into the hearts of the both. The killer uses only his voice over the phone to scare the woman. I want to take this one step further and not even have a voice from my killer and the only time you will see the killer is at the end of my clip where there will be a close up of his face. I also like the the idea of it being set in her house and her being alone.

The close up editing in the opening of Se7en brings mystery and suspense to the audience so I plan to use this sort of feature in the begining of my thriller opening. The woman will be cooking but it will use short close up editing and I won't use jerky clips and eerie sounds.

The camera angles I will use are

• handheld POV
• high angle (example: in Saw they use this to make the audience feel the victim is inferior and that something bad will happen to this character.
• Close up

The setting of my opening will be set in a normal house and the female victim will be home alone - this is conventional of thriller films since women are stereotypically weaker, easier to manipulate and more naïve then men are. She will be wearing yellow and black to signify danger and so she and the red blood will stand out. You will see her through the different camera angles and through the POV from the killer who is lurking in the house unaware. I am considering adding a struggle sequence within the opening to make the audience fear for this girl and wonder or no she will stay alive; however I cannot do this without the killers outfit being revealed which I was planning to do at the end of the clip with a close up of his mask. This would be followed by the dead body surrounded in blood and a close up of the knife which was used to murder her. Here are some illustrations that I roughly came up with signifying the scene.









My ideas and concepts may change based on the group I am put with and the ideas they have although I personally think this is a good idea and sticks to the conventions of thriller films. Budget may be a problem however I have the costume for the killer (this is why I chose this costume) and either me or someone else in my group would supply the setting. The blood would be made with fake blood capsules to create the blood pouring from the mouth effect and colour dyed water liquid to make the blood around the floor.