my narrative ideas

1. Narrative ideas

2. Dummy devotion Action Genre

3. Synopsis • A con man travels around Europe and scams both people as well as businesses to pay for his lavish lifestyle. • He meets a woman in Amalfi, Italy and falls in love but doesn’t tell her who he really is and to impress her, he uses one of his fake identities under the pretences that he is a very wealthy man. • After three years, the woman is also completely in love but suddenly the man gets arrested and is sentenced to 15 years in prison. Within this time the woman reunites with another man who she knew before and he asks her to marry him. The man is from a privileged family and can also offer her a good life. • However, the woman first refuses and tries to fight for the con mans freedom, she is unsuccessful and finally agrees to marry the other man. • In 15 years time, the man is finally released and is left with nothing except for his original identity. He then realises that the woman he fell in love with was also a con woman and she had recently conned the man she married 15 years ago, resulting in her living in a life of luxury from the money she conned. Since then has proceeded to wait for the man. Finally, they get back to each other and continue to con people together. 

4. Opening scene • Montage • Non diegetic music – New York Jazz • Setting – Monaco, Monte-Carlo Casino. It is early evening and sun hasn’t set yet. • Man arrives at the entrance of the casino in an Aston Martin, dressed in a navy tuxedo. • Man walks into casino – ambient sound (people talking, slot machines, drinks), tracking shot to man walking into private poker room. • Man presents himself with a fake identity and makes small talk with surrounding players – all players are wealthy and important. • Game commences and man ends up owing money but instead manages to swap identities with an Italian millionaire sitting next to him. • He steals the identity and leaves the actual million ore to pay they debt. We see the man driving off to Italy with his new identity.

5. Other side Sci – Fi Genre

6. Synopsis • The year is 3020, the earth can no longer sustain the population and is dying quickly. Wars between fractured countries are raging on due to lack of water and food. • Scientists have come up with a potential solution, they predict that the human race will die out in 10 years. However, another planet has been found – Victus is a planet hypothetically suitable for humans to live on. The problem is that to get there it takes 5 years to get there and there is no guarantee that it is actually liveable. • There is a special British training programme for teenagers who are ‘exceptionally gifted’. 7 of those teenagers are chosen to go on a mission to test if there’s a possibility of life on the planet. • The teenagers embark on their journey but two years post-departure, a commotion within the ship causes a fault in the navigation system and they end up in another parallel universe where they discover a planet seemingly identical to earth. • However, they soon discover they are not alone on the planet and are surrounded by several mutated beings, both animals and plants. • The teenagers end up fixing the ship and making it out of the parallel universe and onto Victus where the narrative ends.

7. Opening scene • Starts in a meeting room of head scientists, with graphic title card of the year. • Non-diegetic music – suspenseful music playing, possibly violins and scientists are murmuring. • Another scientist enters (OTS tracking shot) • He states that this is his proposed candidates and throws down 7 files onto the table (close up shots of each one where we can see a picture clipped onto the side of the teenagers). • Head scientist is inspecting the files as the other scientists look at one another. • The scene ends with the head scientist saying to send them in.

8. Devil’s game Thriller genre

9. Synopsis • A well established businessman seemingly leads the perfect life. He has a wife and two children, lives in a good neighbourhood and etc. His life is turned upside down as he finds out his wife is cheating on him, the mans business is also at its end as it gets bankrupt. In a matter of a few months the man has lost everything including his family and all of his money. • Fleeing to Mooresville, Alabama – a small town an hour away from Birmingham. The man buys a small house. With Alabama being quite religious, the man starts attending church almost every day. Here is where he comes to the conclusion that he must take it upon himself to punish the people who have sinned against God. • The man buys a warehouse that was abandoned, on the edge of the town and spends a few years designing an intricate game. The following few months after the game is built, he starts driving to Birmingham and observing the people around him – potential targets. • After kidnapping 7 all who have sinned in one way according to the seven deadly sins. The man puts them into the game he has created. They are trapped in a warehouse having to solve riddles and problems with religious connotations – if they get it wrong they are killed. The victims do not know why they are there. • One victim (the main protagonist) does stick out – an eighteen year old girl. Being the daughter of a police chief in the city, the girl is adamant that her father will come and find her. She makes a deal with the man that for every problem she solves correctly, a hint will be given to the police force about the kidnappings. • As the game goes on, there are flashbacks to each of the characters sins as well as the man observing them. This game goes on for two weeks until there are 5 people left. They have not yet figured out why the man is doing this until the main protagonist questions him and finds out more than she should know. As she is processing this, the man attempts to kill her and leaves her severely injured. • At the same time as this, the police have had enough clues to work out what is going on and trace the victims to the warehouse. The man ends up fleeing the scene as the 5 remaining victims are rescued. We see the girl being put into an ambulance but the film ends there – we didn’t know if she has survived or if the man has been captured.

10. Opening scene • The non-diegetic music is a piano with a fast tempo, it crescendos to add bangs and a clock ticking. • We see a car driving – both the outside and the inside of it. It is being driven by the antagonist. • The car stops at a house, the man exists and walks into the house. He we see him go down into a basement and turn on the lights. • The walls are covered in readings from the bible – the seven deadly sins are circled and highlighted. • The sins are also printed out in bold letters and underneath them on a pinboard are photos of the future victims. • At OTS shot shows the man approach the final sin which doesn’t have anything underneath it – envy and pins up the photo of the main protagonist. • There is a black out and the title ‘Devil’s Game’ is a depicted on screen.