Individual ideas for a narrative Miss Georgiou

A narrative is important in a film as it builds up a story line for the audience to follow, and let's them understand what could happen with the plot of the film. After plenty of research into narratives, I have used this to help me create my own thriller, which is my own personal and individual narrative for my thriller film.

My thriller includes my own narrative:

- It is set In a normal family home, with the main characters being a schitxofrenic young girl who has just come out of a mental institution, who is living wt home with her mother and younger sister.

- She has just come back from a mental institution for hearing voices in her head, which lead to her doing mysterious things and having a lot of trauma. Believing she was cured she comes back home but immediately starts hearing voices again, calling her name.

- At this point the audience are in suspense waiting to find out where these voices are coming from and waiting for something bad to happen.

- The voices in her head are actually the killers, who have put them in a game which they have to solve. We do not see the killers as their identity is hidden which is conventional to a thriller as you only find out who the killers are near the end. We can only hear the killers through the girls mind using non-diegetic sound.

- They are all off to bed apart from the mother who looks like she has been taken over by something and stares longingly into the television screen. The girls sister is fast asleep and the other shouts goodnight from midway staircase. The house at this point is very dark with shadows created by the low key lighting. All you see is the mum watching tv with no communication.

- As soon as the clock/radio by her bed strikes 12, comical music turns on and the changing of radio stations scream loudly. Then the voices are on the radio, whilst screaming from downstairs occurs with chains rattling.

- She can hear the voice in her head whilst silently moving downstairs, when the iconography of chains hammers knifes are all in the living room. Her mother and sister are both chained to a cutting board in which both their lives are in jeopardy, but they are attached to a jigsaw puzzle which the girl has to follow.

- Different paranormal things happen, she gets into a room but the door closes shut and she has to break through. Family gets dragged by invisible demons into different rooms leading to more treacherous taks.

- All their costumes are in nightwear which will make the scene more realistic. Iconography are things such as rope, chains knifes all conventional to thrillers.

- I would want the characters body language to be very tight, timid, scared and worn out from all the fear and pain they're being out through. I would makes the killers once they enter near the end stand up straight looking like the have power, which would make the audience scared and worried about them and about what's going to happen next. This would create the suspense of how they are all going to get out of this horrible situation.

- Location is in a normal house which is quite isolated from the neighbourhood and everybody else. I believe is is conventional to a thriller as it will make everything that little more realistic and there is always something bad about detached houses forbidden away from everybody else. This makes the audience feel on edge.


My narrative appeals to the audience of an 18 certificate as there is a high level of violence and blood and gore, which has it's traumatising scenes. This would the the audience petrified as times which I believe only adults will be able to deal with.

My inspiration for this thriller is based on Saw V and Paranormal Activity 2. This is because I want the jigsaws to be gruesome and horrifying like Saw's as I believe you really feel your own pain as the audience as you see the characters desperation for freedom, so you can relate to them and feel like you are in the film. I combined the two with a twist, so I have made the killers identity hidden, conventional to a thriller as it makes everything more suspicious and it intensifies the scene and the whole film. The scene where the girl gets locked outside is key to my film as it makes the victim/hero look helpless and in her own danger which is terrifying to watch yet you emphasise with the girl. This makes is more realistic as you see how hard she is trying to help, yet it looks like no matter what she does nothing is working.
I would like the victim to be in constant low key lighting, like the villain, as I believe it adds drama to specific scenes and portrays a dark, eary atmosphere in the house in the film. This all adds to effect to the audience as they will be on the edge of their seats.

The audience will be able to relate to my film as the main girl is around the certificates age (18/19) and has just a normal family like everyone else. They wouldn't suspect anything to go wrong in a normal family home, they would understand that the voices in the girls head are part of her illness as people who may have the mental illness they can see what it really could be like. Confusion will happen as the voices are actually 'real' in the film. This will appeal to my tarter audience as the reality is quite astonishing and they won't be expecting the storyline to take such dramatic turnings for the worse, and hopefully they start to fear for being so normal has its consequences... That not everyday is so glorious.