Genre/Narrative

We all agreed that the genre of our film piece would be a 'psychological thriller' because we thought it would be something challenging and interesting to work with in order to suit a target audience. We have been inspired by other films of this genre, or horror films that have a psychologically disturbing nature, because these types of films keep an audience drawn into the film because it keeps their minds wandering.

 Our idea for the narrative is inspired by films such as 'Citizen Kane', where the last words before death are revealed at the start, and the rest of the film is working out what the words meant. As we are only making the beginning of a film, we will make this clear in the title. 

Here is a short summary of our narrative idea:

•   A teenage, possibly drunken couple stumble into an abandoned church, looking for somewhere to possibly shelter, or to investigate it. There will be a few establishing shots of outside the church, and some over-shoulder shots, to introduce the setting, and give opportunity for the credits to start appearing. There will be eerie music starting at this point.
•   The couple enter the church and the music stops to emphasise echoes and sound effects, where there is dusty up-turned furniture, a high balcony, and old-fashioned windows, letting in just enough light for the audience to see the interior. There will be shots of each distinct 'disturbing' or 'unusual' part of the church, where credits will also appear. These clips or photos could appear with credits before the actual film sequence appears, in order to give the audience a sense of familiarity when the couple enter the church, and to set the scene more effectively.
•    The couple either investigate further, or hear a noise coming from another room, to which they walk over and peek around the door and keep quiet as they watch the scene inside, as more music begins to start and build tension.
•   The focus is taken off the couple and is drawn into the scene in the room, which looks like an old-fashioned abandoned morgue.
•   A man is willingly being strapped a stretcher-type bed or table almost ceremoniously, and the room is lit by candles. The people strapping him down 'look' strange and out-of-place to the audience, where they would look like 'dolls' in lab-coats with extreme make-up and facial expressions.
•   One of these people say to the man whilst smiling "any last words?" followed by a shot of a needle moving towards his arm.
•   There is a close up of the man's face as he shuts his eyes. The title screen then comes on, as he whispers his last phrase, which will also be the name of the title.