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Themes in psychological thrillers:

General trends have appeared throughout the narratives within psychological thrillers. Some of these consistent themes include:

• Reality – The quality of being real. Characters often try to determine what is true and what is not within the narrative.
• Perception – A person's own interpretation of the world around him through his senses. Often characters misperceive the world around them, or their perceptions are altered by outside factors within the narrative (see Unreliable narrator).
• Mind – The human consciousness; the location for personality, thought, reason, memory, intelligence and emotion. The mind is often used as a location for narrative conflict, where characters battle their own minds to reach a new level of understanding or perception.
• Existence/Purpose - The object for which something exists; an aim or a goal humans strive towards to understand their reason for existence. Characters often try to discover what their purpose is in their lives and the narrative's conflict often is a way for the characters to discover this purpose.
• Identity - The definition of one's self. Characters often are confused about or doubt who they are and try to discover their true identity.
• Death - The cessation of life. Characters either fear or have a fascination with death

Runaway Production Presents...

OUR FINAL PLOT SYNOPSIS: THE KILLER'S KISS

A thriller consisting of technical and narrative conventions but still remaining a sense of unconventionality within itself. The plot consists of a young girl called Dylsia  who is your unconventional killer.
After being left to fend for herself she overcomes her insecurity by feeling dominant over the male population. She does this by using her beauty to lure in innocent victims and then killing them in cold blood. Using this horrifying technique on a rainy night in a sleepy village, Dylsia seduces Oliver Robinson and after a romantic evening the night ends up leading to the bedroom. 
Dylsia has really made an effort, with the bedroom decked with intoxicating flames from the scented candles and images of the champagne glasses reflected in Oliver’s eyes. 
However, things take a sinister turn when the antagonist uses her seducing techniques in a way Oliver was not expected. She violently ties him to the chair with a deep possession prominent in her eyes and she takes no mercy. 
Dylsia then puts her game in to another person’s hands, by ringing Matt King - Oliver’s best friend. She taunts him and gives him the chance to save Oliver's life, but only if he is quick enough...

Narrative And Technical Codes And Conventions Of The Killer's Kiss

Narrative Code/Conventions

Conventionally we use the colours of Black and Red within our opening to emphasize the happenings within the scene. The Colour black represents the dark surroundings that they are in and of the evil ways of dylsia. The colour red represents the blood that is going to be spilt and the antagonist’s trademark of a kiss she leaves on her victims.

Characters:

Dylsia Young - a female with long, wavy, brunette hair falling gracefully around her face with piercing deep hazel eyes and a complexion so warm and flawless, there is no doubt in any ones mind that she of course is intoxicatingly beautiful. Unconventionally a young girl is our killer, who preys on young boys which in this case will be seen as the vulnerable, innocent instead of the typical stereotype of being the antagonist.

Matt King - a male character with a worked out physique. Piercing blue eyes and soft tufted, mid length hair. With a tanned complexion and tall build.

Oliver Robinson - another male character, this time the victim of the killer. With blonde hair and blue eyes, his physical features connote a purity and innocence about him.

Settings:

- One killer’s bedroom dimly lit with candles. This is conventional in a thriller in having dark lit rooms to portray the thriller genre.

- The first street scene is in daylight. (Shows the juxtaposition of inside the bedroom with the outside of the street.)

The second street where Matt is running is shown as dimly lit, Showing the change from the scene is was in and the one he is about to enter.

Technical Code/Conventions

We use fast paced editing to create tension within the scene in addition to building suspense and an emotional connection with the audience.  However when we as the audience find the young man murdered we use slow motion changing the timing and pacing of a sequence in order to draw an emotional response from the audience.

The orchestral music we are going to use is unconventional to be used within a physiological thriller and conventional to be used in a horror thriller however it does create the same effect to the audience and what they would expect to see. It creates tension to the audience and confusion, which mimics the confusion that a physiological thriller makes within a film.

The camera angles we will use will create further meaning within the scene. High angles will show who is in power and low angles will show who is inferior. This will constantly be used alongside pattern and weighting positioning the killer to the left of the frame and the victim to the right. Playing on who has the power and indicates the change of power that will happen within the rest of the film.

The camera shots we will use will add more meaning, developing on the camera angles and pattern and weighting. We will use:

Establishing shots to show the audience the surroundings of the scene and lets them be familiar with the location, so that they feel they know the place a little more.

Close ups are used to show the expressions of fear on victims faces. Close ups will distinguish characters and convey their emotions.

Medium shots are relatively good in showing facial expressions but work well to show body language as well. We will use this shot to emphasize the body language rather than using the shot to show facial expressions. We will use the medium shot to show the body language of the victims however then will cut to close ups, which will then emphasize the facial expressions of characters.

Point of view from each characters perspective. The shot shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera). It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction. We will use this shot so that you can see each characters point of view and their intake on their role in the film.

Olivia’s Film Treatment

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Title: Re-living a nightmare.

Synopsis: A psychotic male plays mind games on a young female who never noticed him, to get his so called revenge, he plays games that are going to ruin her life, the way he thinks she has to his, although she actually never had any input in the first place.

Characters: Innocent Young Girl.                  

                   Psychotic Male fixated on the young innocent girl.

Mise-en-scene –

Character:

Victim - Pale skin, Natural which adds to the sense of vulnerability. 

Psychotic male – Tall, Muscular to show that he is dominant.

Costume:

Victim- Light colour clothing, Possible a white top as it is a convention of purity which will emphasize the fact that she is an innocent victim.

Psychotic male – Dark clothing to represent himself as a dark twisted person.

Location: Dark unclear setting of where she is in the flash forward. Contrast back into present time events its light which creates a binary opposition (Light Vs Dark).

Camera angles: Always show the innocent girl to the right of the frame which emphasizes that fact that she is weak and in superior to the male who will be shown on the left on the screen. However when she challenges him on his thinking she will be shown neutral in the middle of the screen because however she is still in superior  she tries to fight back but doesn’t go farer enough so  she doesn’t reach the left side of the frame.

                        

First scene: With a flash forward to the end of the film, it gives a taste of the ending but not giving it all away and keeps the audience in suspense of what’s going to happen and query how she got here in the first place therefore goes to the beginning for the back-story (the history behind the situation extant at the start of the main story). This deepens the psychological aspect of the story since the reader is able to more fully understand the character; more specifically, what the character's motivations are and how his past has shaped his current cognitive perceptions. The Psychotic male plays games to ruin her life and destroy it so that in the end he will have to kill her because there will be no life to go back to.  It then rewinds with a sequence of clips of what’s happened without giving anything away. It finally reaches the beginning of the film where she has woken up to what she thinks is a nightmare but however she does not know that is what faces her in the future. The final clip will feature him to let the audience know that is what is going to happen in the future.

Tom's Film Treatment

My original idea:

Three Strikes

Characters

Josh is a popular, sporty teenager who prides himself of his charm, wit and initiative, however becomes vulnerable in difficult situations (he gets mild form of panic attacks and suffers heavily with asthma).

Matt is his friend, a shy, sensible boy who happens to be left home alone everyone Thursday due to his mum’s work commitments. He has noticed a man looking closely at the house for some time but hasn’t mentioned anything because the house is up for sale.

Locations

Two old cottages in close proximity, with the killing occurring in the boy’s bedroom.

A quiet street with street lights and only one car driving down it.

Plot

It will be a similar to Groundhog Day, in the way events can be replayed again. The plot is, Josh gets a text from Matt who is in desperate need for some help (he is tired to a chair about to get killed by the killer who has gone to get a skipping rope to strangle him, his sinister weapon of choice). Josh rushes to save his friend but hits obstacles on the way such as a locked door, nearly getting hit by a car and other mini hurdles. He gets to Matt too late and can only see his dead body and not the killer. The shot then fades to black and starts from the exact same point that the first scene started (the text message) and the Josh is even quicker this time, such as predicting the locked door and avoiding the car but again only just misses his friend being killed but manages to see the killer escaping (also he manages to get a glimpse of the trainers or some other piece of clothing that the killer is wearing). The shot then fades to black again and starts at the text once again. This time he avoids all the obstacles and manages to get away quickly and using his initiative gets a lift in the car that nearly hit him. However, once in the car and the doors are locked, he notices that the driver is wearing the item of clothing that the killer had on.

The First Scene

The first scene is a shot of Matt tied to a chair in his bedroom, with writing on the wall saying ‘won’t be long, gone to get a little something’ (the sinister message from the killer). Matt manages to reach into his coat pocket and pulled out his phone, and with his slow left hand, he texts the word ‘Help’ to his friend Josh. The shot then cuts to Josh’s vibrating phone.

Target Audience

Here is our target audience. 


We decided our audience would be teenagers to young adults, because this age group would be the ones that would be most interested in thrillers, we bring the age group of young adults in, as our thriller is a Psychological, and therefore we believe that the young adults are able to understand the plot further. 
We also relate technology to the younger generation of people so therefore we used phones because they are a higher technical age group. Additionally the phone can also relate to the usages of phones within our film.  
We thought that our audience would be fashion orientated so therefore we found it necessary that we used recent fashion trends and fashion icons for example Cheryl Cole that our audience would be interested in, admire and inspire to be. 
Ultimately leading us to include pictures of actresses and actors that are well known, so we used Drew Barrymore because she can be associated with the thriller genre for her character role in her films, such as 'Scream'. 
There are also pictures of what television shows that we believe our audience will like, so therefore we included 'The Inbetweeners' as our audience would be able to relate to the characters featured, as they are teenagers themselves. Also we featured acts from the show X factor as we find that this age group tends to enjoy watching it and also the music within the show is music they like. 
We included other pictures from people in the music industry like Robbie Williams and 50 cent because our audience varies in different tastes of music, so therefore they are not always going to like and have the same opinions on artists. 
Lastly we used a picture of Jack Nicholson with the famous quote from the shining, "Here's Johnny!" as we find that our audience would tend to be interested in great films like the one directed by Stanley Kubrick. Finally we use the usage of kisses over our poster to underlie further meaning relating to our film which is later to be revealed…