Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

1. Drama

   • Sub genres
     • Tragedy
     • Comedy
     • Farce
     • Melodrama
     • Musical
   • Death, marriage, birth of baby, emotional stuff.
   • Positive resoultions

2. Psychological Thriller

   • Narrative
     • A guy has an accident after his daughter has died. The mother gets depression and cant cope with bringing up the daughter. She then loses her mind and ends up in a mental hospital. The daughter gets adopted and then her real mother breaks out and tries to terrorise her.
     • Films:
       • Victim
       • Guilt
       • Letter
     • Challenges narrative convention
       • Todorov
       • Propp - 8 character roles not fully implemented into the text
       • Levi-Strauss - characters are equal
   • Genre Conventions
     • Potential use of chiaroscuro lighting effects
     • Desaturated colours
     • Handheld cameras
     • Isolated settings
       • Characters are alone

3. Comedy

   • Sub genres
     • Dark humour
     • Slapstick
     • Alternative
     • Insults
   • It follows most narrative conventions
     • Unless the comedy challenges these views
   • Positive resoultions