Group Planning - Miss Georgiou

Chloe Eustace

Group Planning

Introduction:

The members of my group to create our opening thriller sequence is Elizabeth Lawrie and Miranda Simpson. Group meetings are essential to our planning of this thriller opening sequence because it allows us to discuss and plan what we are going to include in our sequence. If we don't have meetings together then the planning would be difficult to do as we would never have the chance to discus whats going to happen, we can discuss key elements such as the camera shots we may use, how we are going to co ordinate costumes and props. 

In one of the first meetings that we had together as a group we discussed what the overall idea for our thriller sequence would be and how we were going to create the effect for the audience, and we discussed the use of Mise-en-Scene for our opening sequence. We discussed the narratives that we had come up with individually in this first meeting but after this we decided that we couldn't incorporate any one persons idea into an actual thriller, the main problems was that our individual ideas were not practical or realistic to create and have the effect created in order to Shock or surprise the audience. After this discussion we decided that it would be best for us to create a whole different narrative together as a group. The narrative that we came up with together is as follows: 

"The narrative will include two girls on the way to a party, who had were being followed by someone, and they didn't notice, so when they break down on the way to the party the stalker is behind them, (the stalker of which is the main antagonist and has a hidden identity from the audience and the girls, no body knows who this antagonist is as the scenes with him in we will use the camera shot Point of View.) which creates tension for the audience and dramatic irony because the audience know that they are being followed but the characters (girls themselves: Holly is the driver and the story bases around her. Gemma dies in the forest when she walks away from Holly at the car and she gets murdered by the hidden antagonist) are unaware of this. One of the girls gets out of the car and wanders off away from the forest to get signal, and the other girl stays behind and freaks out when she hears her friend get murdered in the forest, the camera will jump back to her and her reaction to this moment. The setting is in an abandoned street where there is no one around and in the middle of the forest."

Going forward onto our second meeting we discussed the Mise-en-Scene that we would need to include in our thriller sequence. The Mise-en-scene is important to our thriller film opening sequence because it includes things like iconography, costume, make up and setting. These were all important things that we discussed. The Mis-en-scene that we decided we will probably use because they are conventional such as Iconography like a knife because it is conventional as there is usually weapons of some sort used in thriller sequences as this creates tension and shock for the audience. Other mis-en-scene things that we discussed was 

Other things that we will discuss in the near future as part of our thriller opening sequence is Editing and Cinematography as these are two both important key things in the process of making a thriller film sequence. There is also other things that we need to discuss including the Narrative, characters and sound, again these are important and key to a thriller film so we will discuss them and come up with the best way

Conclusion

In conclusion I can see that as a group we need to still have a couple more meetings in order to make sure that we know what were doing and that we have discussed everything. It is important that we keep discussing this together as a group in order to make sure that we are discussing together.