Individual Narrative - Miss Georgiou

As part of producing some ideas for me to create my individual narrative, I researched into different films to gather inspirations of which I would like to include in my own narrative. Listed below are some of my inspirations that I have gathered and also my idea that I feel is strong and would be successful if I had the opportunity to turn this idea into reality when I later work with my group.

The Sixth Sense: As the young boy is about to experience somethig bad, his breath is hot against the cold air which shows a sense of forbodding and that something's going to happen.I find it a useful feature that I would like to include within my own idea because it shows the element of suspense and unknowing which is conventional to a thriller film because it makes the audience not know what to expect.

In the film 'Deep Blue Sea' there is a clear element of surprise, suspense and shock. In a scene where by a female victim needs to go and find her research whilst the building is sinking, she enters an eerie and mysterious room. After her, follows a shark that stays within the depth of water, going unnoticed and unseen. A fake shark is pushed towards the girl startling her and the audience. However, when the real shark eventually goes to attack the victim who luckily escapes death, it is misleading to the audience because it makes them believe that everything is okay, a term that is known as the Kuleshov effect. This is conventional to a thriller because it misleads the audience to think everything is okay, before something bad happens again. I like this feature because it helps build the suspense and typically seen techniques that used in thrillers.

Lastly, another film that I find extremely useful  to my own idea that I am basing it on, is Nightmare on Elm Street. The reason why I find this so useful and excellent is because in my own narrative idea, I am basing it on a young boy who has nightmares that are actually yet to be a reality, and super natural events take place.. or so it seems, If the character dies in his nightmare, he will die in real life. I find this a powerful idea because it shows a sense of reality... the audience can relate because everyone sleeps, everyone has a nightmare at some point and often when provoked, a night mare can be made to a person. It would make the audience feel scared and in shock which is the main aim of a thriller... to create shock, suspense and surprise.

Moving onto my individual narrative, looking at the above inspirations discussed I felt that my idea was strong. My narrative is to have a young boy who experiences what he believes to be nightmares of this scary killer attacking innocent people, however this is an illusion because these nightmares are actually reality of what this young boys' dark desire is and all goes wrong when he dreams of it happening to himself. During this point there will be super natural events that happen to this young boy where he believes this killer is dragging him out of his bed and leaves scratch marks on his legs, and when the young boy awakens he would be on the floor with his legs scratched up making him suspicious of these 'nightmares'. I feel this would be strong as the concept of this is similar to Nightmare on Elm Street, but yet there is a slight different approach showing I am able to adapt an original and unique story line to this showing my ability to be able to understand a thriller that contains many conventions and recognize the success of it, and apply it to my own ideas.

To conclude my individual narrative, the opening sequence would end on a cliff hanger making the audience want to know what happens next and see the effect and consequences of what previously happens in the opening sequence. I feel this narrative would make a successful piece of work as it would allow me to include different skills that I have learned and would also allow me to include different conventions that would make my individual narrative idea memorable and successful.