Group Narrative

Tamera 'Kanon's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

We chose the name Alex for our main character as we wanted to incorporate the idea of a final girl through her unisex name. She also demonstrates characteristics of a final girl as she avoids the vices of the victims such as a hedonistic lifestyle, she is alto brave enough to take on the villain. Alex's bestfriend Riley is around also to act as a "right hand man".
Tiffany and Jane complete the friendship group. We decided to make Tiffany the silly/oblivious and easily influenced teen who is also flirty. While Jane on the other hand is laidback and rebellious, she subverts the idea of a 'Plain Jane'. Our male characters Josh and Tate are within the narrative to help to encapture the idea of the group of teenagers that Writer Clover mentioned in her literature on the final girl - the group of teens (who are flirty, ladies man, rebel, calm - vices of the victims) that are killed one by one before the final girl.

In our scene with Riley and Alex in the bedroom - a cctv angle will be used which (in a way) reflects and invasion of space/privacy. My group and I decided to link this with the idea of Voyeurism and The Male Gaze as it's almost as if she is being spied on in the place where she should be most comfortable.

We then begin with our initial disruption as the doorbell rings with an unexpected shock,  eerie music also begins to reinforce the disruption. The idea of use beginning our narrative with calm and peaceful settings and following that on with a disruption links in with Toddorov's Narrative Theory.
Disruption continued and acknowledged my characters when Alex's picks up the phone to distorted and crackling sounds, when Tiffany goes to the bathroom and begins to bleed from her eye and TV flickers. An attempt to repair the disruption is displayed through the fast cut/paced scenes of: one of the boys getting stabbed, Jane getting grabbed on the floor and Riley getting grabbed from behind.

We have aslo managed to incorporate Levi Strauss' Binary opposition theory. We intend to use the opposites dark vs light in our trailer where the lights completely go off and Alex uses the match to form some light and witnesses the Villain grabbing Riley from behind by the mouth. Also, we will demonstrate opposites a scene where we have the villain and the victims  in one shot to demonstrate the opposites.
Binary opposition - darkness vs light (flame)