REVISE The Good Daughter

Title
The Good Daughter


Genre
Physiological thriller


Brief plot


Isabella murders her lover Joules by stabbing him in the heart. Isabella murders her lover for the twisted thrill and to please her father Christian. Christian disliked Joules, Isabella and her fathers close; obsessive relationship leads to Isabella killing Joules, pleasing her controlling father. The cuts between Isabella and Christian reflect the close cut between Isabella's eyes to Christian's, the father is watching his good daughter.


Shots


C.U of Isbella looking in to mirror putting on lipstick
C.U of Isabella smoking - 'smokescreen production' title is over this shot
M.S of Isabella's feet walking across the room and picking up suitcase leaving through the door
C.U of the reflection of Christians's eyes in the the reversing mirror of his car.


'The Good Daughter'

We chose to call our production 'The Good Daughter' because it reflects the controlling, obsessive relationship between Christian and his daughter. It also suggests Christian pleasure that Isabella has done what he wanted and killed Joules. The title could also been seen an ironic, doing bad to be good. The title integrates the theme of the obsessive, controlling relationship between Father and Daughter; it also reflects the ironic and twisted nature of the characters and their actions.

Soundtrack

Hyperions fate - Sunny Days Are Over

Genre

Progressive / Experimental / Classical

Looking though the a search engine style site full of unsigned artists and music called www.unsignedbandsweb.com we found this song. The song was posted under 'instrumental'. We felt that the song was dramtic and errie and would acoompily are footage and mood of our production well. I have written to the artist via the site to let them know we are using the song in our production/ ask for premission, below is the body of the email:

Hello


I am a student at CNS 6th form Norwich, England studying A Level media, as part of my coursework I have to construct the opening to a thriller film. For the soundtrack we have to use a copyright free piece of music. After looking though the site I found that your track 'Sunny days are over' would be perfect for my production. I writing to ask/ inform permission if I can use it in my production.
Kind Regards
Elizabeth King
CNS 6th form

Further contact information:

www.myspace.com/hyperionsfate

Audience feed back on the sound track

When asked  'Does the sound track effectively enhance the mood & tone? 12/12 people said it did.

Example of questionnaire anwser:

The sound track adds to and heightens the mood and tone of the mise-en-scene fitting the action well. The steady but intense beat of the music means that when editing we could cut the footage to the beat, heightening tension and drama further. The sound track evokes tension and fear, the sound track is quite dark, moody and heavy. The stings in the sound track make it eerie.


I have uploaded the track onto my account on You tube:


Titles

'Smokescreen Productions'

Are production company is called smokescreen productions
'Smokescreen Productions' will appear over the C.U of Isabella smoking.
We have decided to have the production company on a separate frame as we have time to. This will appear for 4-5 seconds at the start of film.

'The Good Daughter'

The title of our fill will appear towards the end of the opening somewhere. Possible over a shot of Isabella that then cross fades to one of Christian, to establish and intensify the link between the characters.



Actors names

The actors names will appear over the establishing shots of them. For example the establishing shot of Isabella is when she is looking in the mirror putting on lipstick, the establishing shot of Christian is the C.U of the relection of his eyes in the reversog mirror, and Joules when he is waiting behind the railings on the bridge for Isabella. When placing the actors names over these shots it is important not to spoil these shots with the titles, if they do indeed do so they will be moved to a secondary shot.