Planning for Testing Footage

Plan of testing footage

These are the microelements we have chosen to use within the opening of our thriller.

·      Micro Elements combine in a build up of suspense

·      The protagonist will be seen in peril in one or more scenes before the resolution

·      Themes of identity

How we’re going to portray these microelements.

1.     Micro elements combine in a build up of suspense.

The music will be very distorted in order to make the viewer feel uneasy, this will then be added to by the mise en scene. Our character will be in a very confused state (shown by the distress in the facial expressions) She is also in a dark room, which has connotations of being sinister.

When filming this the camera will use an extreme close up of the character we are filming, this will make the scene very intense and won’t let the viewer escape from there discomfort zone. It could also makes the viewer feel claustrophobic in the same way the character does.

2.     The protagonist will be seen in the peril in one or more scenes before the resolution

In-between the montage clips the main character will be shown in distress. This will be portrayed by the camera shoots and the makeup we will use. There will be an extreme close up of the characters eyes closed and her eye makeup will be smeared in the way it does when a girl has been crying excessively. Another shot could again be a close up of the girl rubbing here arms, this is often done when some one is nervous alerting the audience that the character (for some reason) is feeling scared and/or unsettled. 

3.     Themes of identity

As within our opening the character is shown with two completely different personalities, one, which is ‘normal’, and one which seems very confused and distressed. This will be shown with a mixture of shots, half showing the character in blatant distress and the other half showing her doing normal things like showering or painting her nails. However within these shots there will be slight hints showing that the shots are not as simplistic and straight forward as the eye would have first seen it, for example when painting her nails the colours will be dark and not colours you would associate with young, happy teenagers.