Animatic

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Narrative: Put simply our narrative involves a girl who's older brother went missing when she was 11. At that age she couldn't understand what had happened, or why he left and this distorted her mentality. Therefore when she's older being reminded of what happened (through a flashback) makes her angry and agitated causing her to do all the actions in our opening sequence such as looking through old newspapers, photographs, photo albums, drawing pictures etc. As the tension of the scene builds through our use of intercutting and non-diegetic score, we then cut to the title, and then shoot our antagonist looking a lot calmer to show the juxtaposition between the two characters.
Camera: We start by using a long shot to establish the fact that our protagonist is alone in an empty room therefore she is being portrayed as a lonely character. We also use a zoom (or a cut, depending on whether the zoom works or not) into the protagonists eyes which leads into a point of view shot of her in a flashback where she was told her brother went missing. We will be using a low angle P.O.V to give a weak representation of our protagonist at this time. As a group we have decided to attempt a zoom out from the protagonists eyes too, back into the scene. The pace of the scene will start to increase and we will intercut between lots of mid shots and close ups of different angles to give a chaotic and distorted representation of whats going inside our protagonists head. As well as restricting the audience from seeing everything to give a more ambiguous tone to our final product. After the title appears, we shoot our antagonist male character who will as a whole be shot at an eyeline level. We plan to film our protagonist at this level to in order to show an equal social status. 
Lighting: We plan to use low-key lighting for the first scene with our protagonist in order to create a sinister atmosphere, and then juxtapose this with the natural or high-key lighting of the flashback and our final scene with our antagonist. The use of juxtaposition will reinforce the darkness and agitation of our protagonist compared to the more positive and relaxed atmosphere in the other scenes. 
Sound: We have always planned to have a non-diegetic parallel score but we have decided as a group to look into different types of contrapuntal sound to use instead because this might add to our final piece making it more ambiguous and go against some of the typical conventions of a thriller film. We won't be using any ambient sound but, we will be using lots of diegetic sound, however, if the quality of this sound isn't good then we will use foley sound instead to ensure it's noticeable to the audience. 
Editing: The pace of our editing is important because it will change the mood of our whole product. We are starting with a slow pace through the use of cross-fades, the slow pace continues into the flashback where only one continuous P.O.V shot is used. After the flashback, the pace will gradually start to increase through the use of less fades and more intercutting as well as a non-diegetic score increasing in volume and pace to suddenly come to a climax where our title will be shown. The pace will then slow right down for our final scene with only a few long/mid shots. Our titles will appear on their own screen in white writing with a black backdrop. This is inspired by Se7en and will act as transitions between some of the shots. 
Representations: Our protagonist will be wearing dark clothing consisting of a black leather skirt and a dark coloured shirt. This gives the impression she is a dangerous character but still very feminine. Our antagonist will wear a suit connoting the idea of a business man and both will be represented as formal characters. The female protagonist will have much more prevalence and therefore be the most dominant of the two characters portraying an atypical representation of gender. However, her actions will contradict this representation making her look weak and fragile and therefore more stereotypical of a woman. 
Audience: We shall relate to our audience by giving them something that they can relate to by repeating some of the conventions found in thriller films. However, we will provide something different so that the audience engages with our product through challenging some of the conventions too. For example, we intend to look into using contrapuntal sound as a non-diegetic score, and we are providing both stereotypical and atypical representations of our female protagonist to keep the audience interested in what she is actually like as a character.