Sunday, January 15, 2012

Different Coursework Idea: Tiny Terror

Mis en Scene: Medium class house, secluded and surrounded by fields (like SCREAM 1)
Teenage girl/scream queens bedroom: Pink theme/ double bed/ magazines/teddybears
White bathroom (which will later contrast with the red blood)

Character: Scream Queen - around 17 years old, blonde hair, rich family, wearing a vest top and lounge shorts, indicating that these are her pyjamas.
Scream Queens boyfriend: 'jock' like character, has a football with him, well built, muscles, bad attitude of a personality.
Father: Tall and slim with brown hair and shaven facial hair, wearing a black and white suit which denotes that he is smart and authorative, possibly connoting that he works in an office.

There is diagetic sound of the house telephone beginning to ring.
The first shot is a medium shot high angle of a modern telephone ringing. A dutch angle of the scream queen picking up the phone is shown. She says "hello?", the voice on the other side of the telephone says "whos this?" in the voice of ghostface from the scream movies. The scream queen replies "daddy its Drew, don't be silly...Oh, you're on your way home? Ok, see you soon", the girl puts the phone down.
There is a long shot low angle of the girl running up the stairs and along the corridor. A long shot of the girl running into her room, where the camera is already positioned, she is facing her bed. We then see a medium shot of her boyfriend in the bed asleep. "Steve! Steve! wake up! my dads coming home, you gotta hide or he's gonna kick your ass!" The name Steve is also the name of the scream queens boyfriend in SCREAM 1, and also, the media language allows the audience to know that the scream queen is using slag, denoting the time era. As she scream queen says this, there is diagetic sound of a door opening and closing downstairs.
A long shot is shown of the girl running down the stairs and moving past the camera. There is a  medium 2 shot is shown of the girl greeting her father "Daddy! I'ts great to see you!" In which her father replies "I have a present for you sweetie", Her father reaches behind his back and pulls out a plastic doll, the scream queens facial expression moves from a smile to a dissapointed face. "Oh thanks dad, shes...Pretty". The father says "I knew you'd like her sweetie, now daddy has to go and meet Samantha, we have reservations at that new expensive restaurant, (denoting that the family are rich) food looks good there", The scream queen looks at her father in a disgusted way "Oh, i didnt know you two got on so well..."  (denoting jealousy) in which he replies "You know i think the world of her, now i need to go, I'm going to be late!" in which he turns and leaves the house, whilst leaving the scream queen standing there, there is diagetic sound of a car speeding away. The way in which the scream queens facial expression changed when she saw the doll and how her father treated her denoted that he must not be around his daughter enough to see that she is growing up, and in that case the scream queen may feel neglected. The way in which the scream queen acts innocent and young infront of her father, contrasts with the fact that she has a boyfriend and that she is sexually active, this adds tension to the opening of the film.
A long shot of the girl running back up the stairs to find her boyfriend locked in the bathroom is shown, a medium close up shot of her knocking on the door and saying "hes gone now, you're safe" is shown.
The boyfriend walks out of the bathroom, topless, with a towel around his waist.
A medium long shot of the girl sitting on the bed, showing her boyfriend the doll is shown, "haha, look what he got me! sad or what, im not four years old anymore...DADDY!", the way in which she says "daddy" denotes sarcasm and connotes how she has no respect for her father, and instead makes fun of him.
The girl throws the doll onto the floor, and invites her boyfriend back to bed.
A close up of the doll is shown, a bra is then thrown onto the doll, denoting sexual intercourse between the girl and her boyfriend.
The rest of the opening occurs as the main idea of the coursework does.
In short, the doll moves and ends up torturing the scream queen in which the boyfriend finds her in the bath, he is then killed.

1 comment:

  1. Good detail, and sounds promising
    A simple trick to help to connote nudity without showing it: have the towel thrown down (could frame as OTS behind girl so his bottom half is not seen), or he flicks her with it

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