Ideas for a Narrative
A story-line is a
sequence of events described in a narrative. An important part of narration is
the narrative mode - this is - the set methods used to communicate the
narrative through a process narration. The main point in thriller films is to
deliver a story with constant tension, surprise and a sustained sense of and
approaching fate. The main aim is to keep the audience alerted and on the edge
of their seats. Typical thriller all create suspense for the audience to
further engage with the scene. It is often assembled with hope and fear, these
are usually seen as two emotions merged together in eagerness - the hope that
things would turn out right for the protagonist - and fear that they may not.
My own narrative for a thriller film:
Story Outline:
- Family(which consists of a father, 6 yr old son and a 15 yr old son) They are moving house to their grandfather's house which has been empty since 40 yrs. This is due to their mother's death 2 weeks ago. This is seen typical in thriller films as a film usually starts off in a good mood or it straight away starts with a sense of something bad. The idea that the family is moving to an ancient house already brings in the conventions of a thriller, as it is just the start of a new beginning.
- There is usually history(a past story or myth) where the characters in the film move into a house - which is known for haunting people who move into that particular house.
- The 6 yr old kid is being haunted by the antagonist - he is anonymous
- Background story - 80 yrs ago there lived a man called Mr Black - school teacher - he was bullied by students a lot as he had a mental disability, which resulted Mr Black becoming psycho - students were missing every month from the school. Once he was caught 7 years later he was hanged in 1970, and thereafter his house was haunted with evil spirits.
- The father and children don't believe in ghosts or spirits - they hear strange noises, however they always ignore it as they do not pay attention as they are always lost in their thoughts.
- Until the day comes after 2 weeks, where the unknown Mr.Black has had enough of haunting and spying on these three as he receives no reaction. (The myth is that whoever is scared, frightened and fearful - the bad spirits will always haunt them - The antagonist cannot approach the fearless.
- After 2 weeks living in the house strange things start to happen - the 6 yr old kid starts becoming afraid of being alone and hearing strange noises. Also, imagining things - he tries to tell his father, however he neglects him and think it's just because he's lost his mother. However, the 15 year old boy believes his younger brother and tells him not to worry or be afraid as God is on their side( he always wears a cross around his neck - telling his brother to but the 6 year old does not believe in anything as he believes God took away his mother)- due to innocence of the 6 year old he was first target. The boy starts to become afraid being alone - the antagonist can easily frightened the young kid and torture him.
- Randomly he starts to get knife marks on his body and day by day they get worse - Mr Black is opening up his insides whilst he's asleep - during the night and the young boy does not realise until he gets up with sharp pains running through his entire body. He does tell anyone as he thought that his father is busy with work, so every night he got this until the fourth day he went to tell his brother but he just collapsed before his eyes - losing excessive amounts of blood.
- The father takes him to the hospital, and realises that his 6 year old son has gone into coma. This resulted the young boy lying on his bed everyday - connected to machines - awaiting for him to regain conscious.
- Mr Blacks students who were trapped in that house forever, tried to warn the 15 year old by telling him the process of what Mr Black does every night and why. So during that night the 15 year old goes into his younger brother's room (fearless as he is aware of Mr Black visiting his brother's room and awaits standing in the corner hidden by the curtain - With the Cross Necklace around his necklace.
- 0:00am his father walks into the room with a kit in his hand. The remains silent however, when he witnesses his father stabbing and torturing his younger brother, he stands before him and starts to quarrel with his father. However, the 15 year old is not visible. he soon realises that his is possessed as he looked at his eyes and they were huge.
- The 15 year old goes to meet a priest and brings him home. As soon as the priest enters he feels a sense of negativity and evil vibes.
- The priest stays a night and prays in the house making sure that Mr Black who possess their father is out of this house and making sure the tortured escape from Mr Black.
- Once the prayer is done in the house for full 3 nights - the father is free and the 6 year old comes out of his coma and starts to bleed excessively.
- The story ends that the father becomes back to normal but is still suffering from his wife's and now his 6 year old son's death(traumatised thinking he caused his son's death. The 15 year old is left alone looking after mentally disturbed further.
Thriller films which have inspired me are Insidious, The Sixth Sense, Dead Silence and further more. I have used the narrative of Insidious as it has inspired me of similarly copying the story-line. Throughout the scene low-key lighting would be used, also as the house is the grandfather's house - ancient and old iconography would be used. I believe that creating a similar style narrative to Insidious would allow my thriller to becoming a success, I would just need to create the -mise-en-scene and use cinematography appropriately to help me produce my thriller. The narrative I would say is very conventional, but also different. I believe that my narrative would appeal to the audience as they would be able to relate to each character as and envy the characters. Females however are not used as the one of the main characters this is because the story is trying to show the pain and difficulties families go through without females within the family. Overall the audience would easily be able to relate with the narrative and characters, through the emotional relationship which would soon be made at the beginning of the narrative.
Insidious 2 - Trailer
The narrative idea that you have included, demonstrates a good understanding of what a conventional narrative should include and this is because you have considered a range of thriller conventions.
ReplyDeleteNow you need to expand on the inspirations that you have included, by discussing their importance to you in more detail. Finally, you need to explain how your narrative will appeal to an audience.
This post now demonstrates good planning techniques and this is because you have considered your inspirations in further detail.
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