For the costumes, I've suggested a typical outfit for both the teenage boy and the young boy. The costumes may look similar, to represent the fact they are the same person. The young boy wears light coloured clothes to show his innocence and then the teenage boy wears dark clothes to represent the transition from innocence to corruption.
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Not including a list of actors, directors and release dates, I've drawn up a preliminary design including a main picture to suggest the nature of the film (lost childhood innocence), the title of the film (mysterious to make the audience want to watch the film to understand the meaning of the title), the production name (if it is a popular and recognisable company, the audience will be more inclined to watch it if they have produced other good films) and a tag line of 'if you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise...'. This ominous quote from the children's rhyme 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' connects to the main image and makes it clear to the audience that it is a dark film; broken innocence being a primary theme.
I was out yesterday and found a possible park nearby trees by Eton College (camera quality not so good as it was very dark and had to use the night filter)
Sherlock Holmes-
Signs-
Undermind-
By studying the Mise-En-Scene in thrillers, we can use this to develop our own opening scene by including certain factors that can suggest other themes. For example, the bear would suggest innocence while a tattered and torn bear would suggest broken innocence, as would the juxtaposition between the two boys, one dressed in light coloured clothing, the older boy dressed in dark clothing, showing a transition from innocence to corruption.
(credits go across screen during opening scene, fade in and out in bottom corner so as to not distract the audience)
(opening scene begins- starts with the camera facing the back of a teenage boy in the foreground, a set of swings in the back ground- camera changes focus from boy to swings- diegetic sound of creaking swings) (camera facing the back of the swings as the boy sits down) (wide shot of empty playground) (mid shot of boy sitting) (close up- grimaces) (match on action- grips the swing chain- white knuckles) (bright flash- shows transition to the past) (young boy (same boy as before but younger) playing on the swings, smiling) (close up of old, ragged teddy bear beside him, motionless on the other swing) (wide shot of busy playground (juxtaposition)- diegetic sound of children laughing as they play, maybe birdsong) (laughter fades away into the background as camera slowly zooms up to the boy, facing the other way as 'teddy bear's picnic' starts playing) (boy stops and turns around, looking over his shoulder, smile fading) (close up of boy picking up the teddy bear as he stands) (wide shot of playground as boy leaves swings (still moving) and walks into the forest, following the sound) (music grows louder as the boy steps through the forest, gripping the teddy bear, hugging it) (quick cuts to add tension, close ups of boy's face (curious yet fearful)- the back of him- in front of him- from the side (possibly from a distance, looking through trees) (reaches a clearing, camera behind the boy as he stops) (music stops) Boy: Hello? Is... Is anyone there? Boy: (whispers to teddy bear) Don't be afraid, I'm here. There's nothing to fear. (camera- possibly handheld- comes up behind boy from a low angle to a high angle) (boy turns around, looking up) (match on action drops teddy bear- cuts to it falling to the ground) (close up as he starts to scream) (scream cut off as scene returns to older boy, sitting, breathing heavily, head down) (wide shot of playground to show his is still alone) ('teddy bear's picnic' starts again and the boy looks up to face the camera, looking afraid) (cuts to title) preliminary script, liable to change We originally were not going to have any speech. However, we put in a little as we thought this would be effective to create suspense within our opening. As shown here, we originally planned to have the character enter the forest to find a small thing in a clearing. However, after discussing various ideas and themes, we decided against the vague creature to focus more on the 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' theme, so this plan is likely to change.
Today we discussed various elements to include in our opening sequence.
Firstly, we decided on the music in the piece, although we still have to decide whether this is going to be diegetic or non-diegetic. We are inteneding on using 'Teddy Bear's Picnic' because of its connontations with forests, childhood innocence and ominous suggestions of 'you'd better be in disguise'. By making the music eerier, setting it in minor, it will create a suspenseful and ominous atmosphere. Secondly, after deciding on our music, we agreed on including aspects of a teddy bear in the piece, symbolising childhood innocence. This could be shown in the film poster by a child's hand holding onto a decrepit teddy bear, its eyes loose and its body torn, stuffing spilling out, implying broken innocence. Also, we wanted to include effects such as shadows, forest scenery, darkness and possibly blood. We began to discuss possible titles for our production, suggesting titles such as 'Solitude' or 'Wanderer' to imply the dark, ominous, lonlieness of our piece. This photo inspired our opening sequence. We liked the idea of something mysterious and unknown reaching out towards the victim.
To us, this picture connotes loneliness and fear of the unexpected. Also by looking at this photo, we got the idea of doing a flashback in our opening scene as this suggests fear of the past and the past following us, the same way the shadow is behind the boy and still attached and shadows "follow" us.
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