Group Planning - Miss Georgiou

Group Planning

Introduction

In my group excluding myself there is Claire Golighty and Jake Butler. At our group meetings we are able to discuss any ideas or interests we have concerning the film. Group meetings allow each member of the group contribute in any way they want. So everyone has an equal say when planning the thriller production.

In our first meeting we where able to talk about our different individual ideas and then elaborate on what makes them good and what makes the ideas good separately and together. We eventually came up with the idea of a physiological thriller to be present in our own thriller opening. We wanted a suicide to start it off followed by a flash back and we all agreed that this was a successful way to create enigma within a film. After completing our questionnaire we where able to see that films in the thriller genre where most successful and try and figure out why, we focused mainly on thrillers such a 'Shutter ISland' and 'Phyco' and these where originally what gave us the inspiration to continue with following the idea of a physiological thriller with a very disturbing character.

There where a number of different things we discussed in our first meeting which was mainly to be able to identify roughly what different elements we would present in our own thriller opening. After our first meeting of disusing what type of sub-genre we wanted and a short overall of all the ideas we had for our thriller opening we had to go into much more deph and think realistically at what we could achieve and how we where able to accomplish it. Our first focus was the sound. We wanted to add parallel sounds that would relate to our thriller opening and then ultimately use sounds such as stabbing noises and the screams during murders. Although these sounds are stereotypical to the thriller genre we needed to add them as it was crucial to keep up with the thriller film, because our narrative and time frame can sometimes be confusing at times to try and trick the audience we didn't want to go to far off task to what was needed to be done. Another sound technique we discussed was the use of non-diagetic sounds. This would be the original soundtrack from Tiny Tim - Tip Toe through the tulips. This creates a very thrilling atmosphere as it is a rather upbeat song and does actually play apart in almost making the audience feel crazy them self.

In our next meetings we want to plan mise-en-scene, characters, cinematography, editing styles and opening credits, to manipulate our opening sequence to be conventional to a thriller. We want to be able to talk about where we plan to use mise-en-scene and how we intend to use it. The characters will have to be mentioned in detail at a rate that will show how much we understand our own antagonists thoughts. We will talk about his history and what type of person he is, his age and his hobbies. This should be done for all characters. Cinematography will be discussed to provide an idea of what shots and techniques are successful and make the scene a lot more thriller and conventional. We will then discuss how we want the editing to be used within our thriller film. If we want the scene to appear a lot slower and more intense then the rate that different frames are presented will be a lot different to if we wanted the scene to be fast and upbeat maybe during a murder. Finally we will consider what makes a successful opening credit. How will the font be displayed as, will it be thick and bold or thin and messy to represent cursive text. There are many things that need to be talked over a numerous amount of times to make sure we are adding the correct elements into the opening sequence.

 Conclusion

Overall the use of this time has been very successful we where able to sit and chat. These discussions ending in each of us having an equal say about how they see our finalized opening sequence and what requirements are essential to making a successful thriller that is filled with conventions and a good strong narrative.