Outline to our film.
Our first ideas to our media thriller
opening was going to be the story line of a young girl aged around 5/6
‘befriending’ a older man and how although he didn’t do anything physically
wrong he progresses a relationship with the younger girl as looking after her,
but with inappropriate thoughts and feelings. We had ideas for scenes like
filming at a park and leaving the swing swinging on its own with just the music
playing. However it was hard to find a younger girl that we would be able to
film with and be free and certain times that we needed her.
Once we decided that wasn’t the best idea
we could have thought of we decided to use the storyline of a stalker and all
of the other scenes we could use, trying them out and fitting them to the story.
So once we had the fixed storyline we sorted out the order of the clips we was
going to use as because it’s a thriller we didn’t want it to all be to obvious
and wanted to keep the audience wondering and curious.
Our first clip to our opening is a photo
board with several photos of the victim, which includes the credits on. The
photos are used as to emphasise that the rapist has stalked the girl and
collected photos of her to show the obsession.
The story to our film is that there is a male
who stalks and becomes obsessed with the victim. At the start of the film you
see what actually happens at the end. You see the victim getting raped and
attacked which the film then would go on to show the build up of. As the end of
our opening is the victim actually meeting the rapist, which she just doesn’t
yet know that, his strange behavior makes the victim a bit suspicious but she
just brushes it off, and doesn’t actually think anything of it. We ended it
like this as then the rest of the film you as an audience can find out how
everything progresses.
We chose to use certain clips because we
thought they had a vibe which made people feel uneasy and where creepy. For
example when the rapist strokes the photos of the victim and when he is playing
with what looks to be a pair of underwear. It instantly shows that something is
wrong. The fact that the rapist is wearing a mask is very important in several
ways. One of these being the fact that the identity is completely covered and
they are unknown, and for the fact we then go to see the rapist after but we
aren’t actually sure if it is him and there may be several twists and turns as
the genre being a thriller things aren’t always what they seem.
We set the scenes of the film at the
victim’s house as it has a big affect of that it’s so close to home, and even
though she was at home she still wasn’t safe from the rapist. It shows she
wouldn’t have been expecting any of it and felt comfortable with her
surroundings until something so horrible could occur.
