Introduction


My name is Gabriel Meytanis (candidate number 8560). I completed Brief 1:Music Industry, working in Group 2 with Georgina Harper-Dennett (8720) and Phoebe Hung (8017). Our group photo can be seen on the right of the page. To access my portfolio evidence, please click on the labels to the right named A2 Research and Planning, A2 Construction and A2 Evaluation.


GiGi - Sit Still, Look Pretty (Group 2 Music Video)

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Monday, 4 January 2016

R & P Post 6: Our chosen genre and how we plan to connote this

Our group decided, after discussion, that our film would be of the psychological thriller genre and involve some aspect of horror, and so set about attempting to connote this in our opening sequence.




We firstly gathered a huge collection of similar films of the thriller and horror genres in order to inform our decisions on how to connote our own film's genre, ensuring that there was constant reference back to films such as One Hour Photo and Single White Female. Both these films informed our decisions on the mise-en-scene and character behaviour in our opening sequence, such as the idea of a moodboard from One Hour Photo, immediately connoting not only the psychological thriller genre through its creepiness and out-of-place positioning in a seemingly normal teenage room, but also foreshadowing the extreme lengths that the stalker will go to, in order to track her target: an idea also seen in Single White Female, as the stalker Hedy imitates everything from the victim's habits to her appearance. Another interesting concept from this film was the perspective of the stalker, as opposed to the victim, which allows the audience into the mind of the antagonist and is another convention of psychological thrillers.
Sy Parrish's moodboard was an idea which we wanted to
replicate, and clearly connotes the stalking element of our film
We aimed to create an instant sense of unease in our opening, and also explored how sound could also help suggest this. For instance, we limited any dialogue between the antagonist and anyone else (in our sequence, her brother) to a couple of lines to amplify her isolation, and thus her motive for wanting to 'become' her victim. Our soundtrack was also chosen to increase a sense of unease and its "disorientating tape loops and synths" help create a dark mood reminiscent in other psychological thrillers and horrors. Both the lack of interaction and uncomfortable soundtrack are also seen in The Machinist, ranked as one of IMDb's 100best psychological horror films


The Machinist, which uses similar tools to build suspense.

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