Research

Iv been looking at films that are similar to our film, with the women as the main killer/ nutter in the film.
The film that post resembles our film the most i would say is Fatal Attraction this is a 1987 thriller film about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him.
This is very similar to our film because our film plot it very similar to this but our film Miss-REd is about a crazed ex-girl friend who doesnt want to let her ex go.

Narrative Theory
The first theory I looked at is that of Tvzetan Todorov. He believed that the fictional enviroment begins with a state of equillibrium (All as it should be, in a state of equal balance between powers of any kind). This is then disrupted in some way (disequillibrium). There is then an attempt to repair the damage of the disruption before a new equillibrium is reached.Vladimir Propp's theory indicates that there are a number of set characters with specific narrative functions that appear in all stories. These were:
The villain (struggles against the hero)
The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)
The magical helper (helps the hero in the quest)
The princess ( person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)
Her father
The dispatcher
The hero or victim
Levi Strauss' narrative thory claims that all narrative stuctures can be shown as a series of binary opposites. e.g good v evil, hero vs villain.

Group blog

we have decided to make a group blog -

http://jabdproductions.blogspot.com/

Target Audience

I have been doing some audience research and feel that the thriller itself should be targeted at 15. A 15 is mostly what thriller films are aimed at. However the opening sequence that we are creating will be certified as a 12a as we want it to be available to a wider audience

Name ideas

We had a brainstorm about what we were going to call our film this is just a few of the names we come up with

Blood Red

Kiss from a Rose

Killer Red
Seeing Red
The Red Rose
The Last Kiss
Broken Blossom
Deadly Red

My favourite was Touched by a Rose becuase this anme had two meanings. A rose is Beautiful to look a but when you touch it, it will hurt you becuase if it thorns..
in the end tho we came up with the name MIS-RED the is the name of our character but it is also like the personality of our character mis-read!!

Character idea's

There will be two characters in our opening sequence. Our main character "The Lady in Red" is our glamorous, yet dangerous serial killer. We want to portray her in the following ways:
Glamorous, Mysterious, Elegant, Sexy, Pretty, Rich and Posh.
As we have almost no dialogue in our opening sequence - the only way we can portray this characters persona is by her appearance.This is why her costume will consist of a silky black dress, a red coat and red heels, making her seem well-dressed and wealthy. We also wish to give our character either a large black hat, or a veiled hat so we can cover her facial features, to add a mysterious element to her identity. We will also give her long, curled hair and blood red lipstick.Our Second Character will be the murder victim himself. He is a young male and we wish to portray him as being:Vulnerable, Misled, Naive Innocent.His costume will consist of a shirt or jumper with jeans and shoes

(this was writen my becky but is a group idea)

Our Idea

We put together an idea about what our opening sequence could be about, it took us about two lessons but in the end we came up with this idea-
There is a women in red who is very mysterious and we don't know much about her. but all we get to find out about her is that she is a killer and she allways kisses her victim on their cheek leaving behind a big red kiss mark.
this is just a ruf idea on what we are going to do.