2. Goldilocks
Potential Fairy tales
Cinderella
Beauty & the beast
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White
3. • In our next meeting, we then decided on how we shall adapt the fairy tale, we discussed all the
genre’s and then decided we wanted to use the thriller genre. We decided to use this genre
because we felt the narrative of Little Red Riding Hood, uses some aspects from this genre
already. In addition to this we wanted to make this more apparent to the audience.
• After this we made a list of macro and micro elements such as:
• Representations
• Props
• Mise-En-Scene
• Camera angels
• Music
• Codes and Conventions of the thriller genre.
• Narrative
• Lighting
• Sound (diegetic/non diegetic/sound bridges/voice overs)
Whilst discussing this, we then came up with the idea, that as we adapt the fairy tale, there will be
some aspects we shall keep the same such as the colour red, the use of younger actress for the
character of Little Red Riding Hood, the grandma and the mother. The use of the forest, we did this
because we felt it was essential in understanding the narrative.
4. Changes we made to the original narrative:
•We decided to change the narrative structure to non-linear narrative, we didn’t want
the narrative to follow a typical structure, in which we all find boring. We wanted to
be able to captivate our audience through the narrative, if we followed a non-linear
narrative the audience will be more likely to concentrate on the trailer, they will be
more likely to watch the actual movie so the true meaning of the film can be
unravelled.
•Another adaptation we made to the narrative is the use of a wolf. We felt it would be
easier to portray and will act as a way of modernising the fairy tale. We felt that due
to the fact we don’t have the resources for the wolf costume etc., it will be easier to
use a witch for obvious reasons. We didn’t want the trailer to look cheap, this is the
main reason why we decided to change the wolf to a witch.
•With the actual narrative of Little Red Riding Hood we have only taken parts of the
story in which we find particularly interesting. Such as the death of Red Riding
Hood, but rather we shall never reveal the true resolution of the trailer.
5. Why change the wolf to a witch?
How would you adapt the fairy tale?
What does the thriller genre consist of?
How did you find your characters?
6. As my role is being a producer, our budget is £100, to buy a red dress, make-up, props etc.
we looked at different locations whereby we found out the use of these locations will be
free. As the producer I am in charge of looking over the whole project. I made a decision to
change the scene from the huntsman at the pub, to a huntsman riding a motor bike, I did
this because I felt we could play on this more, it will be more representative of our target
audience, and also it will appeal to them.
Through my role, I helped make critical decisions during our productions meetings, I helped
establish many different decisions, were we looked at things such as costume, I helped form
the red dress idea as a way of modernising the fairy tale, also as a way of modernising the
fairy tale, we wanted to change their costumes completely and also the idea of the wolf.
Through my role I also helped my director when it came to looking for locations and shot
list. I overlooked these variables and made sure, it will best suit our target audience.
When allocating roles I was allocated the role of the producer. The role of the producer is to
initiate a project and oversees it from the conceptual stage through to completion. As this is
my role I will be in charge of making sure we follow story boards. Making sure we have the
correct equipment we need i.e. camera, costumes and scripts. This role requires me to find
the characters, costumes, the kind of shots we will use, the type of location.
