My final film concept is that a brain surgeon (who we later find out is Schizophrenic) is stalking an intern who he thinks is trying to kill him after he releases his enemy's obituary.The protagonist is then drugged and then placed in a morgue.When he wakes up he loses parts of his memory, and must convince everyone that the surgeon is 'evil' and then the surgeon is placed in a mental institute.
This plot has changed a significant amount as the surgeon's role is more specific and so the reason to kill has changed from childhood revenge to a mental illness. The equlibrium would be a normal day as an intern (protagonist) and the surgeon performing surgery (antagonist), the disruption is when the hero is drugged and put in a morgue in attempt to kill him and leaves room to continue with the day's work and releases his copy of the protagonist's obituary, in the recognition stage, the progagonst has flashbacks of his attack and finds his obituary in the newspsper days later and relises that he must convice his colleagues that this surgeon must be stopped and put into care before anyone else gets hurt, and so plans to shift his 'murderous qualities' to another intern in attempt to catch the surgeon. In the repair stage the plan is put into action and finallybat return, the surgeon is put into a mental institute and the protagonist continues his role as an intern.
Macro/Micro Binary Opposites and Enigmas of My Final Film Concept
Macro Binary Opposites
- Protagonist - Antagonist
- Good - Evil
- Stability - Instability
- Beautiful - Ugly
- Brave - Cowardly
Why is the surgeon trying to kill the protagonist?
Why pick on this particular intern?
Why does a surgeon with this mental state have a job that is to help others?
Target Audience? Why would they like it?
My Target Audience are those who enjoy crime, mystery and/or action/adventure because the plot intertwines the 3 genres. It will offer the audience the senses of escapism (because this plot wouldn't happen in real life), social interaction (as to the mystery/ strangeness of the plot) and to a certain extent of identification can be offered (the insight into the lives of those who work in a hospital). The ideological position of these viewers would be more to the right wing ideology, but as the surgeon is put in a mental institute instead of prision, this would fulfill the left wing ideological position.
Narratemes used?
- Hero is introduced alongside the equilibrium of the story
- Villian introduced in his part of hospital
- Protagonist warned that surgeon has been acting 'strange lately'
- Protagonist severely hurt and finds his obituary in the newspaper- plans to stop antagonst
- Villian is caught trying to take protagonists credit
- Protagonist is rewarded for the capture - retuns to equilibrium without surgeon
My inspirations were from 'Stormbreaker', 'Reccess:School's Out' and 'Bourne Idenity'
Originality?
I feel that the originality of this film concept is the villian is a surgeon, a trusted person in society and due to the fact he is Schizophrenic, this adds to the originality.
Teacher/ Other Group's Feedback on My Original Concept
My teacher feedback included:
Positive aspects
- Overall setup of plot
- The fact that the villian is a surgeon
- That the plot covers humams fears (being in a morgue, possible death and reading your own obituary!)
- Surgeon's overall motivation to kill the protagonist
The surgon no longer wants childhood revenge but believes the protagonist is trying to kill him as he has become Schizophrenic
Other Feedback:
This was to include a Love Interest for the Protagonist.
Action Taken on this Feedback:
As a group we decided not to include this aspect as it loses focus on the final plot.
This links back to the main task as this is the developmental stage of the task, asking for feedback to make my tite sequence even better than it was before.
