Group Narrative - Miss Georgiou

Group member 1:
Name: Harry Warren
Idea:
My individual narrative that will be used in my opening sequence will feature an ordinary girl that believes she is being stalked by somebody at school, with many shots showing the stalker in the background and never in the central frame to suggest that he is striving to be hidden, with many people disbelieving her as nobody ever sees the stalker while the climax of the sequence features the stalker coming to finally attack the girl but as he comes up on her she turns around and brutally stabs him with a knife before putting it away and walking off as if there is nothing wrong.

Strengths: 
Easily recognisable as thriller as the narrative is conventional to the thriller. Location would be accessible and characters fit the females and males in the group. By walking away from the killer it creates an enigma.
A murder occurs which is conventional to the thriller genre it would be effective in generating shock.
The victim is a girl that is seen as vulnerable and the audience are likely to sympathise with her.
Weaknesses: 
It will be difficult to pull of the killing without it looking fake, if it looks fake it will ruin the look of the play and the audience will not be frightened.
It would be hard for the story line to be fit in within 2-3 minutes.


Group Member 2: 
Name: Nojus Cinkus
Idea: 
My idea of a narrative for my two-minute intro scene is the story of a teenager who is relentlessly threatened and stalked by the gang he once used to call his own. He was once part of a gang that trafficked drugs to young people in east London - his only family. After giving away vital information to the police, the gang is destroyed, with only two members escaping. The two track and hunt the teenager down, eventually ending his life. In my two minute sequence, the film will show two thugs breaking into his home, leading to a chase. He will eventually become slowed down and stopped, resulting in a brutal death from hate-filled stabs to the chest. The scene ends with a friend arriving at the house and walking through the smashed door suspiciously. He finds the body and calls the police, closing the scene.

Strengths:
This sequence would be to film as it could take place in  any location, for example a forrest which is conventional to the thriller genre, the setting would be remote, eery and dark which is typical of thrillers.
This thriller sequence would incorporate a male antagonist which is conventional to the thriller genre this would be stereotypical this would engage the audience making it more entraining for them to watch.
Weakness:
The main disadvantage of this narrative is that it is far to detailed and would be challenging to portray in a short opening sequence especially considering there is only three of us in the group and would of us would be filing the sequence.
The plot overall is not very realistic and its not a narrative that you would expect to see in a thriller film and it may not make sense and confuse the audience.

My idea

My narrative is about a young girl who lives with her father after her mother passed away. Within the two minute sequence we are introduced to pictures f the two of them throughout the years, showing family pictures over a fireplace. The beginning of the film will be filmed from the perspective of the killer by using a hand held camera it will look like the killer is filming inside of the families house. The audience will not see who is holding the camera which will create tension and suspense within the audience. When the father and daughter arrive home they feel as if someone has been in inside their house and that someone may still be watching them. This is where the audience are properly introduced to the father and his daughter. The two of them become disturbed as they realise some of their possessions have been moved around (little do they know the killer is still watching them from inside the house). They convince each other that they are both over reacting and that there is nothing to worry about. Both the father and the daughter are mentally attacked during their sleep that night yet. These clips will be accompanied by slow passed music which is conventional to the thriller genre. The audience see the daughter become disturbed by a shadow outside the house. All the sounds and images build up tension.

Strengths:
A strength of my idea is that it is conventional to the thriller genre, it would include camera shots and editing techniques that suit the thriller genre it would also be easy to film in anyones house. This sequence would include many of the typical characters for example a masked antagonist and two victims.
Weakness:
For my idea we wouldn't be able to do any filming in school as it more or less all takes place in a house which is time consuming as all our lessons would be wasted. Secondly if we were to use a house of someone in our group we would have to rush the filming as if the house is  not available again this would mean we would have to change the location of the house which would be noticeable to the audience.

As a group collectively have decided that Harrys idea is the easiest to tim and is also the most conventional to the thriller. We decided on this because it would be easy to film due to it being located in a school as our target audience is based at teenagers this location would be ideal to use as they would find it relatable. This narrative is based around an ordinary girl being stalked around her school, witch many camera angles showing her stalker but he is never in full focous and only arts of him are seen. None she had told believes her as they have never seen him. The climax of the sequence shows the stalker coming out to attack her although he is masked although his true identity is revealed at the end. This is conventional as there is a plot twist they girl ends up fighting back and killer him before he kills her. Our idea does not follow Tordorovs theory as there is no sense of equilibrium, as we are just making an opening sequence there is not enough time to create an equilibrium and show it returning after the disruption. Secondly it does not follow Tordorovs theory as we have not included a realisation where everyone in our scene realises the problem and the chaos it causes. Secondly our narrative does not follow props theory as his theory only applies to fairy tales secondly our group only has three members and props theory is based around characters we would not have enough time to play all the different characters nor would they fit in with the narrative of our piece.

 However our group narrative seems to follow Aristotle's theory as it features an incident where the girl is attacked without her knowing kills the killer in an attempt to save herself. There is also an element of empathy and sympathy as there is a female victim which the audience feel sympathy for her. This can also be seen as unconventional to thriller films as the girl is the one that kills the man which is not typically how women  are represented in thrillers. By this happening it does create more surprise for the audience as they would not have been expecting it. The other theories such as Tordorov argues that narrative involves a transformation. The character or the situation are transformed through the progress of the disruption. The disruption itself usually takes place outside the normal frame work. This does not apply to our sequence as there is no pure incident just a girl trying to protect herself there is no transformation within the character. We have decided that there will be a story line behind our sequence  based around the connections of the characters as there are only two characters being used. The other narrative theories include that of Vladamir props which is a narrative that provides a structure for the text. Thordorovs theory is based on the idea of equilibrium and diseqalibrium. We did not follow this as within a two minute sequence it would not a be a satiable idea and we would be unable to convey all of that in the given time. 

This was the last piece of work Harry contributed to our group, Harrys idea for the opening sequence and his work ethic was not compatible to Nojus and myself. Therefore it was decided that Harry was better off working separately which meant leaving the group and continuing his sequence on his own. In hindsight this benefitted all of us, as Harry was able to take full control of his opening sequence and Nojus and I were able to make decisions we felt fit our narrative.