Choosing Our Narrative

Initial Narrative

CHOOSING OUR NARRATIVE 
Once we decided on our specific genre, the group started to brainstorm ideas we had for our narrative. This allowed us to come up with two main ideas. Our initial plot idea was based around a teenage girl with a troubled past involving a stalker. The opening would focus on this protagonist at a party involving drugs, causing her to hallucinate and start seeing her stalker at the party. It would involve lots of blurry, unnerving camera work and muffled sounds of the music and madness of the party as we follow the girl dealing with her hallucinations. The opening will finish as this girl is walking out of the party. She will be holding a knife covered in blood. This cliff hanger will make the audience speculate over who she killed or even if she did and then the film's title would come up and the main narrative of the film would be set months later. However effective this idea would be if it were to be successful, we realised that it was far too ambitious and it would only work if every single detail was perfect. It would have been too much of a challenge as many experienced,skilled directors admit that party scenes are the most difficult to create, because of the atmosphere that needs to be achieved successfully. 

Final narrative

We therefore decided to brainstorm another idea in the hope of reaching a more approachable and realistic narrative. We decided to keep the initial idea of a girl who has a stalker. However we decided to base the main narrative with her talking to a Councillor about how the stalker attacked her. It will involve her having lots of flashbacks of this traumatic experience. The opening will then finish with her walking outside and seeing the stalker across the road. It will then cut to a black screen. We decided to choose this narrative because, yes it would be easier to create, but we also much preferred the narrative and it is unique. It will also be a challenge for us because of all the unnerving flashbacks involved. It also fits perfectly with our genre of psychological horror because it will frighten the audience as well as it being thought provoking for them.