Moving along

Today Ellie and I chose to work on specific elements of our mystery story. We were reflecting back on mysterious shows we have watched and were really inspired by the show "Stranger things". The concept of an illegal study caught our attention. This added to our storyline making it more of a mystery. We really struggled on how to convey this setting,  which was very wrong and definitely not supposed to be going on. We thought long and hard about what aspects we can bring into the mies-en-scene to make it better. Like in the credits we discussed earlier, we thought this could be the best way to convey mystery and horror of the situation.One thing we decided on is that the"subject" would be laying on the bed against her will.  Also their will be several Operating tools lying around the room.

At this point in time Ellie and I agreed that in order to have a psychopath character in the film we are going to need to know how they act. We took some time and researched common characteristics of psychopaths and found out elements we can add like the character lacking remorse, being impulsive , showing signs of delinquency, and much more. The actions he will take will reflect these traits greatly. We used https://www.sociopathicstyle.com/psychopathic-traits/ to help us in our research.

Ellie and I started mental mapping the story to get an idea and decided that the subject was in a room by herself tied down (unconscious) and the newscasts is playing simultaneously. The story will be describing her situation and traits perfectly and have a little bit about the background of her life. Towards the end of the newscast the psychopath will walk in and without any remorse start doing some sort of operation that is not to be know. If the story were to go on it would be about why this girl is there and how and/or if she will ever escape this hell. At the end of this we agreed the next time we meet we would focus on the news report. I think we are making great progress, but we really need to make sure this can turn out how we are playing it in our minds. This "psychopath" idea we are trying to convey is new to us and we need to work extra hard to nail it.

"Psychopathic Traits." The Sociopathic Style. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2017. <https://www.sociopathicstyle.com/psychopathic-traits/>.