Group narrative - Miss Georgiou

         Group Narrative

What is the purpose of the narrative:

The narrative is to construct a story and help make sense of the plot of a film in a chronological order ; this  helps engage the audience to make it more enjoyable and build a relationship with the characters and help promote a theme.

How did our group discuss it:

 We discussed our ideas in quite thorough detail  with our group and what our ideas about what a thriller should contain.Things such as suspense, a victim and a murderer were automatically picked but other things that were surprising were not.We found out we wanted a masked murderer and other things we also talked about advantages and disadvantages. Overall we discussed well as a group and shared ideas and opinions well.

Group member 1: 

Group member one had an idea of it being situated in a hospital with the victim being a patient waking up after a coma. The murderer is a doctor and is chasing the woman through the hospital until she is dies due to her being away from her life support machine. The man then operates on her and does experiments on her. The doctor has a mask on so we never know his identity and never runs as he is relentless.

Group member 2 :  

Wai-Lum - A man (tom) gets married to a single mother (Elizabeth).  The mother and the daughter (Katy), move in with Tom.  For years they live happily.  One day katie comes home crying from school, she talks to her dad and says that her best friend is going out with the guy she likes.  Tom treats Katy like his own daughter and this is the first time he has witnessed her being devasted.  He wants to solve the situation but he is thinking of a plan, he invites katy's friend over and it didnt go as he predicted as he wanted to talk to her friend calmly where he got flashing images of katy of being sad 

which makes him aggressive.  Tom lies to Katy's friend who is clueless about katy's anger.  Whilst her back is turned he grabs a vase and he smashes it on the back of her head.  She loses consciousness, and takes her to a hidden basement which his family does not know about, he puts the body in there, realises what he has done and becomes mentally unstable.  He continuously starts stabbing her as he is frighted that the victim will start telling everyone.  The police find out the girl is missing and go search houses and the guard dog smells the scent and gets arresting.

Group member 3:

1) In her narrative teen girls have been reported missing.  A past female victim comes home one night from a party, however she has been drinking and is tipsy, but she is aware of her surroundings - whilst she walks, on the way she is unknowingly followed by a mass killer. She then eventually arrives home, whilst she enters her house she clumsily leaves her door open which becomes an easy access for the killer. The killer however doesn't kill her but he stalks her inside her own house. For months she carries on her normal life, he lives in her house in hiding. 

Vladimir Propp:

Vladimir Propp had the idea and held the theory  that the the characters made up the narrative of a film and were the most important part in building it.He thought that the characters told the story and people such as the donor ,the dispatcher and the false hero just add to the depth of the narrative. These characters are not always present in thriller films but are mostly in fairy films such as Shrek but are not normally in all films.

Todorov: 

Tzvetan Todorov preferred a simplified version of a narrative in a film.This although more simplified  allowed more complex ideas about narrative to be thought.He believed that first it started with an equilibrium in which all things were balanced and good. Then a disruption occurs which changes the balance of the narative and this needs to be repaired by someone who can be thought of as the hero.Then a new balance has taken place ans the narrative ends.This does happen in many films but often has a change at the end.

Aristotle

Aristotle believed that a narrative was built up and helped by themes.This made the narrative more in depth and helped us understand the narrative better.Themes he thought that could help a narrative are goals,antagonist/protagonist and resolutions.These would help make a narrative more interesting and help  engage the audience better.