Synopsis Analyses

Synposis

The purpose of a synopsis is to explain briefly what the film is about. It provides a short input about the film and what the film is about.

Films such as '28 days later' shows this:

'A powerful virus is unleashed. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage.

Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.'

However the sub-genre that we have chosen to do for our sequence is a psychological thriller, therefore synopsis from psychological thrillers such as 'Psycho', 'Single white female' and 'Silence of the lambs' would also provide good examples.

The synopsis of Psycho reads:

'Alfred Hitchcock's landmark materpiece of the macabre start Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates, whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quite evening. No one knows that better than Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) the ill-fated traveller whose journey end the notorious "shower scene". First a private detective, then Marion's sister (Vera Miles) searches for he, the horror and the suspense mount to a terrifying climax where the mysterious killer is finally revealed. It took seven days to shoot the shower scene, seventy camera setups for the forty-five seconds of this now famous footage-and not an actual bare breast or plunging knife is to be found in the final cut, just illusion through montage.'

 

This is our synopsis that we have made:

Anna is a college student, who is use to constantly moving schools to fit her father’s work. Beginning in a new school, she has no expectations a part form the constant reminder of being alone. However this time around, things are far from usual. Anna finds herself not as lonely as she first thought.

Our synopsis meets the conventions of a psychological thriller because we have included alot of enigmas to add lots of mystery of what is going on. The last sentence in particular adds suspense as the audience will be intrigued about what happens to this girl. This fits in well with the conventions of a psychological thriller because not alot is revealed, plus this also infers that something bad is going to happen or perhaps that she is being stalked as it plays on the word 'alone'.