Planning: Final ideas and planning

Final Idea
Title: Beyond The Grave

Narrative:
Our thriller starts off with a time frame using home videos footage of a little girl. (iconography of the little girls doll has to be emphasised so the audience remember it and are able to identify it). We also see home video footage of an older girl who is getting into her new car; (iconography of the car has to also be empathised for the audiences understanding).  In the background we can hear a news reporting saying that a young girl has died from being ran over by a car. As the news reporter says this the camera starts to zoom onto the little girls face into a close up; her face begins to look sad. The scene ends with a white flash and a car crash sound. This scene should make the audience understand the association between the 2 girls; which is that it was the older girl who ran over the little girl.

Next, the older girl is walking through a park at night (the lighting is low key) and she starts walking past a swing park. She is talking on the phone and as she is walking the camera starts to track her from behind. When the older girl finishes her phone conversation she drops her phone, goes to pick it up, slowly looks around and then gets back up. We then start to see a point of view shot from behind some bushes and we can hear light breathing (this lets the audience know that she is being watched). The camera then keeps switching from tracking the older girl, to the point of view of her being watched (it is the little girl who is dead that is watching her). Throughout this scene the girl starts to realise she is being watched as she starts hearing noises that sound child like, she sees a swing moving on its own and then she finds the little girls doll on the floor in front of her. She then runs home in a panic.

When she gets home she runs into the bathroom and starts to wash her face with water in panic. She eventually starts to calm down and when she is fully calm she slowly looks up and in the mirror in front of her she sees the little girls ghost behind her and screams. The scene blacks out and straight cuts back in and the camera swiftly zooms in on the now possessed older girl and blacks out again. Finally it straight cuts back in and we see a pan of the little girl walking away from the side and the last thing we see is the doll which she is dragging along with with her as she walks of scene.

Narrative structure:
Todrov

Themes:
Revenge
Supernatural (Ghosts)

Characters:
Older girl
Little girl

Costume: 
Older girl - Light blue jeans, pink, white or cream top; this is conventional a thriller as it is a typical victim's costume.
Little girl - (in time frame) pink or cream dress, long hair with bows. (In the antagonist role) Long messy hair, white powder make up, white over sized hospital looking clothing.

Location:
(Time frame) In a swing park and outside a car on the street.
(Second scene) In a park near a swing park. This is conventional to a thriller as being alone in a dark park while being followed will create tension and suspense.
(Last scene) In a bathroom. This will create fear into the audience as a home is somewhere people feel safe and a bathroom is somewhere people feel safe and have their own privacy.

Lighting:9
(Time frame) Natural lighting
(Second scene) Low key, silhouettes from the trees.

Iconography:
Car, Doll, Swing, blood

Film influences: 
Paranormal activity, Insidious, Unborn, 6th sense

Our thriller opening is conventional because we use conventional thriller themes like revenge and supernatural themes and Our thriller opening is partly in a dark park with low key lighting which is a typical thriller location. We use a child who is initially innocent to be our antagonist as this not so usual antagonist will create alot of fear into the audience.