Revised Narrative

Our film would be classified as a psychological thriller.
Isabella is the obedient yet deceitful daughter of gangster Christian. Christian has an extremely intricate, controlling relationship with his daughter in which he manipulates her thoughts into making her perform his twisted dirtywork (well indicated in our thriller by this crossfade between shots of Christian driving away and Isabella's face, as if to literally portray the fact that he has got inside his daughter's head).

Isabella is involved in a complicated romance with Joules, a member of an opposing gang to that of Christian. The father, of course, does not approve... He has got inside the mind of his daughter, convincing her to 'do away' with Joules. Isabella makes an arrangement with Joules to meet her. Upon their seemingly romantic embrace, shots are crossfaded between those of the guilty Isabella and her controlling father, implying strongly of some relation and strange on-goings. The eyelines of Isabella and her father during these shot transitions are on the same level, implying that they themselves are on the same level, also as though to show that her evil father is watching her every move with great intent. Isabella decieves her gangster lover, Joules, and stabs him in the torso, resulting in Joules' untimely death at his lover's feet. Having got conformation that the deed is done, Christian winds up his car window as if to suggest that 'the job is done'. Our thriller introduction then ends with Christian's car driving away from the scene, and various crossfade transitions between shots of Isabella and her father to further promote the intricate relationship between them and the power he has over her. The final shot being an extreme close-up of Christian's shady eyes looking on, brimming with evil!

We feel that it is best suited for our film to be classified as a psychological thriller, as it is all based around the idea that an evil, controlling father has manipulated his daughter into performing his every twisted deed upon demand. The film indicates the complex, sick relationship between father and daughter that has flourished over the girl's prolongued, troubled childhood, due to the possessiveness and controlling nature of her father. We tried to steer clear of the usual generic year 12 media projects that simply have cash or drug exchanges, and instead chose to try and create a far more thrilling, complex relationship orientated film, which sets our film apart from the usual, less deep projects. We feel this adds another dimension of terrifying nature to our film, making it far more chilling by instead highlighting the vast power of twisted, controlling family relations rather than the usual bland breifcase exchange!

- Opens with establishing shot of Isabella smoking on windowsil

- Close up of Isabella's face as 'Smokescreen Productions' fades into the shot amongst her cigarette smoke

- Isabella is seen leaving the room

- Cuts to extreme close up of Christian's watching eyes in car rear-view mirror

- Car window is wound down as if to imply the job is beginning...

- Isabella shown walking up steps to meet her lover, Joules

- Crossfades to low angle shot of Christian looking on

- Joules is introduced, shown waiting for Isabella

- Embrace is made, Isabella running into the arms of the waiting Joules

- Fades back to Christian watching on, close-up in car side-mirror

- Over shoulder shot of Christian looking at watch, as if to imply the murder is arranged/timed - waiting for the murder to occurr...

- Extreme close up of watch

- Crossfade to High angle shot of Isabella's eyes, looking away as if guilty

- Fades back to low angle, extreme close up shot of Christian watching again

- Fades back to Joules and Isabella - Joules shown falling in pain

- Joules collapses to his knees, grasping the ankle of Isabella as if he does not want to let go, palm falls flat to the ground

- Shot of Joules dead on the floor

- Fades back to Christian winding up car window, as if to imply the job is done...

- Car drives away, title appear - 'The Good Daughter'

- Title remains during crossfade to extreme close-up of Isabella's eyes, whilst crossfade shows car driving off into her head (as if to imply he has got inside her head)

- Fades to shot of Joules' hand on the floor as he was collapsing, as if she is hazily remembering the murder she has just caused

- Ends on a faded shot of Christian's eyes with a low angle extreme close up shot of him looking onwards, as if he is always watching his femme fatale daughter...