Statement of Intent

    I’m making a supernatural crime drama trailer that touches upon mental illness called Dissociative Identity Disorder as well as depression and anxiety. The story is about a young woman that struggles with a DID (alter-ego) that turns out to be ‘family inherited’. The story goes on with the protagonist turning into the villain and having blackouts where she commits a crime like stealing or even killing. She finds out about the DID and tries the treatment. Some of the characters in the story struggle with their mental health like depression, neurosis, anxiety or like the main character, more serious mental illness like DID. I would like to create a supernatural crime drama so I’ll need work around the 12A rating that is required for our coursework. I want to create a show that will be divided between realism and the supernatural. What is so unique about this story is that the protagonist and the villain are the same person. Their characters will be binary oppositions like water and fire. 

My narrative is inspired by the show ‘Elite’ and the supernatural part, the atmosphere, from a popular show ‘Stranger Things’ as well as the way that supernatural is normalized from the film ‘About Time’. When it comes to the cinematography, I’d like it to have the visuals of a show called ‘Euphoria’. 

 

  I want to challenge Mulvey's theory of the ‘male gaze’ and have female characters challenge themselves and show the balance between being strong and independent as well as being aware of your body in a way that is not aimed for the ‘male gaze’. I want both characters to learn something from each other and accept their fate. I also want to explore van Zoonen’s theory that nothing had changed over the past 70 years. We still live in a world where women’s bodies are highly sexualized and I want my female characters to challenge that and countries like Poland are the best setting to challenge it. 

 One of my most important aspects of this project is camerawork, lighting and costume as well as other parts of cinematography. I want to create an original media text that will communicate with the audience through visuals and be aesthetically pleasing for the watcher. I want to use a lot of juxtapositions in the mise-en-scene, making sure that the audience member knows what is happening and won’t get confused. I also want to include narration in the form of a diegetic sound, different characters talking to each other, explaining the story in bits, to then have a sequence with just certain diegetic sounds of some of the climax scene. 

  

The show overall would be a combination of other media texts that will reflect the normal life but also make the audience appreciate life and make mundane actions seem out of this world. The show will overall be a lesson for people that don’t appreciate what they have and make the best out of every situation and every person that might stumble upon in your life.