Individual ideas for a narrative - Miss Georgiou

My individual idea for a narrative was to feature a stalker like, obsessive man who is falls for a beautiful strong woman and is fixated on having her all to himself. Due to his isolation from people and his emotional state he has different ideas in mind in order to obtain the female which leads him to take extreme measures in getting her. I decided on a female victim as they are conventional to thriller genres as they come across as more vulnerable and are usually the weaker sex, making the audience empathize for them. However, the female character in my narrative is a strong independent character therefore putting up more of a fight in an underwater fight scene for her life featuring in my narrative idea, this makes the scene more intriguing and heart-racing for the audience as they would be hoping for the female victim to escape. My inspiration for this was from the frozen pond scene in the film Orphan, where the victim struggles underwater whilst fighting the villain in order to survive. To create the underwater effect, I thought to use the school swimming pool which is spacious and when filming would not be noticeable it is in a pool, instead I wanted my narrative to look like it is in a river which many drowning scenes are based in within thriller films. 

I also intended to film the clip in a dark place in order for low key lighting to be effective as the shadows made would build the tension. A dark setting I thought would be effective is a corner of a garage or shed in which the female victim is being held captive by her stalker, being tormented. In addition, I thought hiding the killers identity would be effective as the audience would feel on edge, due to the enigma and fear of the unknown. I also would use parallel sounds to emphasise the events that take place in the clip to build suspense.