Finally

Hello,
I have finally got the blog log on in to work so this is my first ever post with my new group.
I have been working on the narrative for the last couple of the days with my group and I am going to post our current concept below.

A girl is all alone in a playground by herself, she will be filmed in many different angles and then swinging on the swing. As she is at the highest point of the swing a second girl will appear. Each time the swing reaches the highest point then the second girl will appear closer and closer each time until Girl A stops singing and speaks to Girl B.
During their conversation we will play a voice over recorded by Girl A's mother saying to her "I wish you had more friends".
We will show the girls becoming friends until a change happens. This will be signified by a change in music and faster cuts. This will be teasing towards what is wrong with girl B. Ideas that we have had for this section includes, Girl A looking into a mirror and Girl B being there and when Girl A turns around Girl B has disappeared. Finally the climax will be the final scene in which Girl B walks into the sea in a way which does not appear right. The song will change right at the end so that it will be a rendition of the nursery rhyme 'Mary Mary'. The idea is that Girl B is actually dead and is not as she appears.
That is the basic narrative, we are planning to film extra scenes because we found last year that we did not have enough footage.

Currently at school, Stef and I wrote a preliminary storyboard with which Nat is now creating the version that we will film with. Tommorow Stef and I are auditioning some year 9's for the role of the two girls.

Helena

Choosin' a plot...

Well due to the school having a burst water pipe on Wednesday and Thursday, we did miss some media lessons but the four of us met up during a free to continue developing four main narrative ideas.
We discussed existing horror film narratives that we liked including "I am legend", "28 days later" and "The Unborn". The four of us then talked and discussed our narrative ideas and took one each to continue with over the weekend.
So we've all set ourselves the homework of completeing a rough storyboard for one of these ideas each so we can choose a plot to go with for our teaser trailer

Stef

Few ideas to throw around...

In our most recent media lesson the four of us played with a few ideas for narratives for our teaser trailer.
John Hartley believed that "genre are agents of idealogical closure - they limit the meaning/potential of a given text" - (O'Sullican et al. 1994,128).
As a reflection of this, I decided to do some research into the horror genre and its' codes and conventions. I suggest that we make sure we continue to return to these to make sure our teaser trailer clearly portrays the genre we have chosen!

1. A fear of death is always present in a horror film
2. Binary oppositions of good versus evil
3. Fear created in a horror film is based on our most deep, instintive fears e.g. paranoia that someone is always watching you, fear of the unknown, vunerability etc.
4. A collapse of moral order
5. May include violence/gore
6. May explore taboo subjects such as the corruption of children and innocence
7. Continue to play on the minds of the viewers even after watching the film
8. Plays on the dread/suspense the audience feels as watching

So there you have it (: also, the four of us came up with a few ideas for narratives so will put them up here too. They are very vague so far and so we will continue this week to develop these ideas:

1. Plot 1 - a camping/holiday trip going wrong
2. Plot 2 - clown based horror
3. Plot 3 - sleepover based horror
4. Plot 4 - a news bulletin on a monster based pandemic
5. Plot 5 - friendships that are not as they appear

Still, other ideas may also come to us as we continue to discuss in class so watch this space!

Stef