RECONNAISSANCE

One of our locations is the common room, this will bring the idea of realism to our audience, as the cast are sixth formers so they would have a common room to go to proving our trailer to be a realistic representation. This is the general effect of the common room to resemble a reliable representation whilst capturing the students at their lows and their peaks. For example there will be scenes of Genner alone and staring over the elite group, as well as the group sitting around and just talking about general topics such as parties and clothes. Through this location the reality if sixth formers will be acknowledged.

All of the above a shots of the girls toilets. It is a well known fact that girls go to the toilet in pairs or in groups, this idea is played on within our trailer. A lot of bullying does occur within the toilets, which is ironic as there are many assumptions about teenagers when being bullied at school and one of them is to hide in the toilet, so we decided to take this to a further extent and actually place some bullying within the toilet. The effect of this is that the connotation of a toilet is a clean, place where no one will come and check up on you; the perfect spot for a bully. Forming the idea that Genner is not safe from the bullies.

 

The bridge is a vital location, as this is where Genner is supposed to meet Jamal for their 'date', but however ends up being the place she commits suicide. There are obvious connotations of a bridge which apply intensely. The effect of this particular location is that is slightly involves dramatic irony the audience are aware that she will not meet Jamal and something terrible will happen, it's just the time between Genner's realization and her drastic death.

NARRATIVE 2

It's a winter day, and some of the sixth form students are free in the common room. A group of 5 girls and 1 boys are sitting in the main seating area. This group is the most popular of the year, and seen as 'elite' from their fellow pupils. One girl, who is of a dark nature always sits in the isolated area at the back of the common room, she tends to just stare at the group. With the elite group there is a couple Jamal and Taylor. The dark natured girl Genner is always looking out for J&T, as she has a crush on Jamal. The rest of this elite group tease Genner, as they know she has a crush on Jamal. A slight hint of bullying will occur, this will not be brutal but real, name calling, pushing in the hallways and hints of teasing will be present. This will take place over a period of time. One day the bullying is taken a step further as the elite group get hold of G's phone number and tell her that J is actually interested in her, they arrange a meeting place which is a park/ isolated area with a bridge (connotations of a bridge are present). The elite group minus Jamal and Taylor are at this isolated area but are hidden behind a tree, awaiting G's arrival, they are filming her as their intention is to send her a text revealing that he will not come and does not/will not ever like her leaving her distraught to which they will record. They view this as a funny prank. However this does not go to plan breaking the equilibrium. When G receives the disturbing text message, she feels distraught. She unexpectedly reveals a photograph of J&T and rips it, setting alight to one half. The elite group are shocked, but are still filming through their camera phone. G then breaks down, and takes this one step further by committing suicide due to her feeling, she cannot bear this humiliation. The elite group now are aware they have footage of G taking her life, which is because of them, making them involved in this crime. The group then burn their phone, in an attempt to destroy all evidence. They then take themselves home, and try to get rid of all these images within their heads. The time comes to be back at school and they let J&J know exactly what had happened, who all agree that they should forget the whole thing and move on. Within the next week strange things occur, elements that show that G's spirit is with the group. Later on in the week the whole group are just walking through the school building and all of a sudden the doors lock, the lights turn off and there is no escape. Each character scared and screaming, they notice a change in Jamal; his eyes have changed colour and his voice completely different. Suddenly he starts announcing 'I know what you did, you killed me ' etc, which eventually lead the terrified group to believe he has been possessed by G. Creating the recognition of disruption. J, being possessed by G tries to scar each member of the group as revenge for her constant bullying and trauma, she wants them to feel the wrath of her, and know how much it hurts whether it be mentally or physically. One by one there are dilemmas where J (possessed by G) is one to one with each member of the group either killing them, or violently hurting them in order for them to always know and remember that they have been hurt by them. After taking on the group, J then finds his way to his girlfriend J, who G wants to kill as she has the one thing that G was never able to have. J does not want this to happen as J is his high school sweetheart, he then has a plan if G is determined to kill J he would rather die than his girlfriend. An attempt to repair the damage will now take place, the characters attempt to get to the school chapel, in order to connect with God and ask for forgiveness but they are trapped and unable to get out. Now there is a visual change from G to J, back and forth continuously as J does not want to kill his girlfriend Taylor. In the end, he decides to kill himself; there is a visual fight between all three characters. Where the audience are able to see just how hard the fight between J and G's possessive force is. In the end J commits suicide, in able to kill the possession of G as well as himself. This kills the force and J's character leaving the rest of the characters distraught, and the building then becomes unlocked. The last shot for the audience is the left over image, of the half of the picture that G ripped up but did not burn, which will show the face off... Forming the new equilibrium.

 

 

 

 

IDEAS FOR FILM NAME

MAGAZINE NAME IDEAS

As a group we came up with a number of magazine name ideas such as the following:
FLICKS
MOTION
CINEMATIC
TOTAL MOVIE
TOTAL CINEMA
BLOCKBUSTER
MEGAMOVIE
FIRST FILM
FANATIC
FILMFEST
MOVIE MIX

We chose these names for our magazine name as they seem fun, and natural. Our horror front cover will be a one off Halloween edition which is why our names are not as horrific.

Our favourites were:
MOTION
FLICKS
MOVIEMAX
FILMFEST

In order to come to a agreed conclusion we decided to take it upon our target audience, so we asked 20 people. 8 out of the 20 chose FLICKS, thus finalising our decision on our magazine name.

IDEAS TAGLINE

Our tagline is ‘The obsessive love that never dies’.

 

This immediately correlates with the narrative of our movie, as Genner has an obsession with Jamal which leads her to commit suicide, however she doesn’t die as such because she possessed Jamal, who is in fact her obsession. The image on our film poster is of Jamal with Genner over his shoulder just staring at him making it obvious that she has a specific obsession with him.

We had been inspired by a number of supernatural horror films, as their taglines collaborate perfectly with the film narrative keeping the production sophisticated.

The devil inside’s tagline is ‘no soul is safe’, which the audience link directly with the image and film. The image is of a nun which is someone who the audience would connote as pure, and innocent so for her to get possessed would indicate there is no hope for anyone else as she is the purest in society.

The insidious tagline is ‘It’s not the house that’s haunted’ once again correlating directly to the film, as the young boy Dalton is haunted due to his family background. Whereas the mother firstly believed there was something wrong with the child. Again this is visually accepted as the young boy takes the centre third, and shows some force has taken him over, enabling the audience to have full awareness of what is going on in addition to giving them a slight insight into what the narrative could be about.

The Possession tagline is ‘Darkness lives within’ this once again joins with the narrative because the young girl is possessed with a spirit trying to get out of her human body. This is shown within the image on the poster, signifying to the audience the basis of the movie.

 
We had a few other ideas, but they all based around our actual tagline. These included : 'the compulsive love that lives forever' and the 'the possessive love that doesn't end'. Both taglines do not feel as sophisticated as our chosen one. The term compulsive does not unite with our narrative as well as 'obsessive' due to it not directly correlating to the narrative. Also living forever seems rather positive compared to 'that never dies' which feels like a disturbance that keeps appearing. Through small yet crucial problems with the tagline is what made us change our minds and create our final tagline: 'The obsessive love that never dies.'

CHOSEN ACTORS

Below are our chosen actors:

JAMAL- GEORGE FOSTER

GENNER- MILEN GHEBREMICHAEL

TAYLOR- BETSI MEGAN BURCH

KIM- CHERISSE ILAG

CANDICE- KARISMA KHUTTAN

BRANDY- HEATHER LANDY

CHANEL- PRISCILLA DUAH

PRACTICE SHOTS

 

 

These are our practice shots, were we directed our characters for our magazine front cover and poster. The use of a black t shirt on Jamal intensifies the idea that he is possessed, as black features heavily on his clothing. Black connotes evil, danger and darkness all attributes that Jamal has once possessed. However there is slightly too much black, due to the colours it is implied that Jamal is evil, but he is pure until possessed. Therefore a colour change to a white t shirt seems much more appropriate. Jamal's facial expressions are also too frigid, and need to be more open to portray the fact that someone is within in trying to break out. Unintentionally the vein's on Jamal's arms are popping out which could indicate a particular strain on his body, which is happening through the possession.

The shot of Jamal and Taylor is lovely, it captures their romance perfectly, but however is slightly smudged therefore a retake is needed, this will happen when Jamal is in a white t shirt as he is not at all possessed in this image and needs to remain pure. Taylor's clothing represents her personality perfectly, a genuine, bubbly and cheerful girl. Taylor's costume also implies that she takes her time at sixth form seriously, as she is dressed smartly with part of her personality shining through the costumes. Their expressions together reflect how comfortable they are around each other, just the image that we were going for.