Tuesday 13th October 2009

In last lesson, we started to think more in depth about ideas for our preliminary prescribed task. To help us think of better ideas and locations our teacher showed us examples of short films that made use of similar codes and conventions it gave us ideas to expand on this within our own individual storylines; since the lesson on Tuesday I have been thinking about which locations would be appropriate for our preliminary task. First of all I have thought about the genre and I've decided to follow the horror thriller genre. The concept of the narrative is one of a woman who is talking to her dead child whilst playing chess or a card game in the park. The arguement gets heated and ends with a shot of the space that the child was meant to be sitting in. The audience then realise that the child is in fact dead. It is still undecided whether there will be any make-up will be used to signify death or to let the audience come to their own conclusions, beacause if it isn't used the genre would become more psychological rather than thriller. In order to become clear about this, I am going to research more into the horror thriller sub-genre and think more about our narrative so that we know exactly what it consists of and can then begin planning concisely.