Individual Narrative

A narrative is important as all films have to follow a story line of some kind.

Conventions of a thriller:

• Setting- Forest
• Enigma- Someone is following 
• Iconography-log, knife
• Characters- killer; man, victim; teenage girl
• Plot/ narrative idea- Grandmother sitting her granddaughter down and telling the story of her mothers disappearance as she begins to wonder what happened to her when she was 8. A traumatic experience that was never understood as a child and her curiosity kicks in as she starts to question. A video of her mother happily playing with their pet at the crime scene as a young girl herself. Flashback of one mid-evening dog walk the grandmother and mother in their well known fields, a strange appearance of a farmers tractor parked randomly, with no one to be seen in it. To avoid the tractor, they enter the woody section and noises from unknown locations causes confusion and the mother is taken from behind, as her mother (grandmother) tries desperately to get her back but it unable to. Police are called and she is never found.
• Music- Eary and jumpy.
• Clothing- White for the mother and grandmother, kidnapper in black.

An example that I can relate my idea of plot is to 'The Blair Witch Project', where individual characters are taken in an abandoned house in the woods.