Part G

In our opening sequence there are going to be 2 characters and 2 actors.

Part H

1st Character is Nia acted by Mickella Swaby

Nia is a shy, lonely, quiet character, Nia is in her own world. She is shown to be mentally disturbed in the sequence. She's not much of a bold character but she is very vulnerable. She's gone through past experiences which made her have a sort of abnormal behaviour or is she just seeing things that are not really there.

Stereotype – hidden, alone

Costume – dark clothing, winter wear

Language – low toned voice.

Body language - hostile

2nd Character is Kylie by Paula DuruKylie doesn’t have much of a role in the sequence but she is a friend of Nia. She does seem to worry about Nia a lot because of her shy behaviour. But she lives around the area, and she greets Nia from time to time.

Stereotype – confident, cheerful

Costume – bright, stylish

Language – modern, slang, talkative

Body language – loud and proud

This is Nia as Character

Part H

This is Kylie as dressed as Character

And Paula the ActorAnd Mickella as

Actor

Part I Filming will also take place outside the house. ( Long shot)

Point of view shot from the door (Nia passes by)

Part I

Most of the setting will be set at home. Nia will be the main character . She walks through this door after seeing Kylie

She then walks through he corridor.

Then into the kitchen/dining area.

A mid shot will be filmed here.

5 Bullet Points Overview Of Open Sequence

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• Main Character walks outside for some fresh air. She sees her neighbour they have a brief conversation

• Main character picks up a letter she opens it and it has letters cut up she puts the words together and gets the word “KNOCK KNOCK” then in couple of minutes the door Knocks

• Main character opens the door and there's no-one there she closes the door and when she looks a doll appears on the table.

• • Main character is puzzled but walks past the table with the doll on it• As she walks past the doll disappears and the scene is finished

Part K

The Opening Scene• Teenage Girl Working On Her Laptop In The House Alone, When An Envelope

is sent through her letter box, she goes to pick it up and brings back to the table she was working on.

• When She Opens The Envelope little bits of different colour paper spills out spelling the phrase “Knock Knock”.

• She then receives a loud knock at the front door, she approaches the magic hole to see no one there. She Opens The Door To See no one there and as she looks down there is a doll placed by the step of the door.

• She takes the doll inside and places it on the chair next to her and stairs at it Confused.

• She Then Looks Away from the doll to look at the door again to find the doll is missing.

5 Bullet Points

Part K

5 Bullet Points Of The Whole Film

• Nia (Main Character) walks outside for some fresh air. She sees her Kylie (Good Friend/neighbour) they have a brief conversation. Nia picks up a letter she opens it and it has letters cut up she puts the words together and gets the word “KNOCK KNOCK” then in couple of minutes the door Knocks.

• Nia opens the door and there's no-one there she closes the door and when she looks a doll appears on the table. Nia is puzzled but walks past the table with the doll on it As she walks past the doll disappears and the scene is finished (Open Sequence)

• Nia notices the doll has gone missing and has no memory of moving it she panics and starts to run to the door but the door is locked she then hears a young girl preferably whispering (Child murderer) she turns around and finds the doll in the corridor who then repeats again.

• Nia passed out when she awakes she finds her self trapped to a table with a lot of medical equipment around her. The doll explains who the real identity is of the doll is which is the main characters unborn child that the main character had an abortion when she was 17 so the spirit of the unborn child lives and plans to live inside her mothers body.

• Towards the end the doll kills the Nia and the doll transforms the spirit into Nia’s body

Part K

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We decided not to use Torodov’s Theory because ..

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Part N

• His theory is a calm beginning , something goes wrong in middle then everything is goes either back to normal or Happier at the end which is more like a drama to us

• Our Idea Starts with a twist both audience and character are confused waiting to see what’s going to happen next which is what a psychological thriller does.

Levi-Strauss looked at narrative structure in terms of binary oppositions. Binary oppositions are sets of opposite values which reveal the structure of media texts. An example would be GOOD and EVIL – we understand the concept of GOOD as being the opposite of EVIL. Levi –Strauss was not so interested in looking at the order in which events were arranged in the plot. He looked instead for deeper arrangements of themes. For example, if we look at Science Fiction films we can identify a series of binary oppositions.

Strauss Theory

• Immortality is the ability to live forever.

• Mortality is the condition of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.

We show the binary opposition through the characters in the film. The Main Character Being Human (Mortal) And the doll in which has a supernatural sprit in it (immortal).The struggle shows that when something is immortal it is tougher to either control or win against.

Theories of Propp (Character Roles

Part O

• We will be applying theories of Propp in our Opening Sequence.

What I learnt from Propp is that you can classify characters by their roles and actions.

This links to our opening sequence, because the characters are all different and we could understand each actors key function.

• We will be using theories of Propp to identify what characters do what. In his theory Nia would be (the Victim) and Kylie would be (the helper)

Part Q Target Audience

Age Certificate: 15 Location: Worldwide Gender: Both Genders Social Class: Working Class/ Youth Must have an interest in how society can affect on people lifestyles Open minded to the reason why/how people can make mistakes. Sense of empathy

• Target audience: 15 – 18 year olds• I say this because looking at the BBFC standards certain

scenes might not be appropriate for any age below that. • Some scenes may be too harsh to watch. • A lot of scenes will portray paranoia, uncertainly, mind

confusing, a lot of tension, leave you feeling a bit uneasy.• I decided a bit too much for a below 15 year old to handle.

Target Audience

Gender – it is targeted at both genders male and female.

There is nothing against any gender or discriminating a particular gender in the sequence.

• Social Class – We don’t want to be too harsh on the viewing of the sequence. But the social class is mostly targeted at middle class and working class people. Affordable and accessible to watch at any time.

Target Audience

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Middle Middle

Upper Middle

Lower Middle

Working

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Poverty

Interests – Psychological thrillers, paranoia behaviour, science, mental behaviour, toys etc. this all relates to the sequence

HobbiesWatching FilmsPlaying Games Collecting Toys

EXAMPLES OF 15 RATED MOVIES!

Distribution Companies

We will not be using Lionsgate because it’s too much of a multi million distribution company and it wouldn’t suit our budget.

It’s mostly targeted at top American films.

We also we need to look at the budget of our film before hand. Could it be affordable?

Part R

Lionsgate don’t do much Thriller movies focus is more on drama and action

How we have met the BBFC standards

• “Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Easily accessible weapons should not be glamorised”

In Our open sequence no “dangerous behaviour” is not shown at all.

. There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, ‘f***’). The strongest  terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable

In our open sequence no profanity is used.No theme is prohibited, provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds.Our themes of revenge is not shown in the open

sequence but if it was it would have been appropriate for viewers of 15 +

Part S

Part T

In a motion picture, television program, or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning

Titling and Credits list the most important members of the production.

They are now usually shown as text on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show.

Sometimes there may or may not be accompanying music.

Style of Titling and Credits

Part U

Music That inspired me …

We will make our own and not copy anything on this slide due to copyrights but these was a inspiration to our group This was used in the Movie “Dead

Silence” starts off slow (then after 26 seconds) it speeds up

This was used in the grudge gaves us the creeps which we thought was effective

This was used in “nightmare on elm street” this was inspiring because it matches our idea it uses young girls (Around 5-7 years )saying horrific stuff in the tune of a nursery rhyme

Inspirational Music and Sounds

I liked the different range of instruments used I thought it would be effective to use something similar to be played in the open sequence when the credits are on when everything was suppose to be calm