Thursday 24 November 2011

Brainstorming a film idea and Narrative.

Serial Killer:

 Themes

Teacher- Monster/killer, Portrayed as being nice, Cannibal, Predator, Serial Killer.
High school - Stereotypical geek becoming hero, 'The inbetweeners/Scream'.

Genre

Black comedy, Horror (Hybrid of genre).

The comedy within the black comedy genre is that it is set to the present day therefore teenager events are shown to the audience therefore this creates a form of humour.

Black Comedy examples

  • Juno
  • 50 first dates
  • Big nothing
  • Hot fuzz
  • Shaun of the dead
  • Cable guy
  • Kickass
  • 50/50
  • Zombieland
Plots

- One witness has to stop the killer striking her next victim.
- The inbetweeners has an affair with scream.
- Evil teacher killing within the school.

Location

- The school

References 

'The faculty'.

Cinematography for title sequence

A long take Point of view shot from the teachers perspectives throughout the sequence to show how the school children react to the teacher therefore portraying her as a nice person. End shot is a wide shot of the teacher to establish the character and her importance. (positioned in the centre of the frame).

Brief narrative:


  • Starts of as a normal school day
  • Things shown to the audience that relates to students deaths making the audience believe the teacher is the killer.
  • Student (Will Mackenzie character inspired) witnesses teacher killing student but is not believed by friends therefore not confident to tell a teacher.
  • The boy finds out who the next victim is therefore tries to stop the brutal murder.
  • Fails to prevent the murder but is now discovered by teacher.
  • Teacher keeps the boy hidden.
  • Friends begin to worry and stay after school to find the missing boy as they now believe him.
  • Teacher attempts to kill everyone
  • Hero saves the day.







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