The group has chosen to adapt the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" as a thriller genre film. They will modernize aspects like using a red dress instead of a cape but keep main characters the same. The producer will oversee the project from concept to completion, ensuring they have proper equipment and follow storyboards. They intend to use a nonlinear narrative and voiceover narration to heighten suspense. Lighting, costumes, camera shots and locations were selected intentionally to create mood and focus audience attention in ways aligned with the thriller genre.

1. Research and Planning
We first begin with different types of fairy tales that we could adapt, starting with ‘Beauty & the
Beast’. ‘Cinderella’, ‘Snow White’, and ‘Goldilocks’. From here we decided upon Little Red Riding
Hood.
The fairy tale my group has chosen as a production team is Little Red Riding Hood. We have chosen
this and we are going to adapt the story. The story in actual fact was an innocent way of presenting
paedophiles raping little kids, so we have decided to really present by using the thriller genre. The
thriller genre consists of excitement, suspense and tension as its main elements, in addition to this
the primary sub elements are mystery and crime. We felt that the thriller genre and the story go
hand in hand; there are many parts of the story where a lot of suspense, excitement and tension
have been created. Another thing in which I and my group have decided is that we shall create a
trailer.
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.
We have decided to keep the same characters, and in their original form. We felt that ‘Little Red
Riding Hood’, should be a white girl of about 17 in age. We decided to this because we didn’t want
to change the narrative of the play too much, as we aim to adapt the story, we didn’t want to loose
the initial storyline. Also when discussing costume, we decided to use a red dress rather than a cape,
because we want to modernise the story but still keep the colour red a main theme in the trailer. We
decided with the other characters we will keep them the same, because we didn’t want the story
line to change too much, we wanted to double the thrill within the story. Rather than using a wolf,
we decided to use a witch, the thriller genre aims to heighten suspense and tension and we felt it
will be better executed using a witch. Through research I found an adaptation of the story Little Red
Riding, whereby the wolf had the power to be human during the day, and through a full moon
By using a non-linear narrative it will heighten suspense and excitement. It will heighten the
adrenaline in the audience. It will require them to focus more whilst watching and keep their
attention on the screen. We decided to do this because we believed the normal linear narrative will
be boring, and will follow the typical conventions of the thriller genre, we believe that the non linear
narrative will create more suspense and mystery.
When looking at scripting, we didn’t want it too much dialogue from the characters, we wanted the
narrator to narrate the scenes as they go along because we felt the suspense will be more effective
that way. We assigned each character important dialogue for the audience to understand the basic
narrative of the trailer. We prefer to use a voice over narration because we felt it would be more
exciting.
We wanted to modernize Little Red Riding Hood, we decided instead of using a red cape, we would
rather use a red dress, we felt that if we did this, we could create more suspense due to the
connotations of the colour red. By using the colour red, the audience can establish the characters
status, personality and job. By focusing on costume we aim to modernize the way in which all the

2. character are dressed so the audience can establish the time period of the play. Certain types of
costume are identified closely with the individual genres, for example the witch dressed in black.
By manipulating setting the audience will build certain expectations and then the action takes a
different turn, in the scene were we have a shadow creeping on the wall and then it turns into a
scene were we see the huntsman displaying his strength this will be particularly effective if the
setting goes against what we would expect from this genre.
Lighting can aim to give a particular scene a very realistic look or bring out the dramatic nature of it
and we associate these different lighting styles with different genres. The use of dim lighting in
different scenes will create suspense; the use of luminous colours will create a mythical effect to the
scene. Also by highlighting important characters such Red Riding Hood and the Huntsman would
draw attention towards them by using a bright light source. Again the connotations that colour
carries is an important influence, when using scenes where the witch is in the frame, using darker
colours would create a scary effect on the audience, whilst using brighter colour on Red Riding Hood
it would have brighter connotations.
When thinking of camera shots, we decided to use a range of shots, such as medium shots, close
ups, establishing shots, over the shoulder shots, just to mention a few. We decided to use many
shots because we felt to capture the genre it would be best represented by the shots we used. By
using a range of distances means there are different emphasis placed on expressions and body
language according to the type of shot. Again when using different camera shots we can pay close
attention to body language, body language will be a clear indication of how the character feels and
what they are thinking. By situating Red Riding Hood in the foreground in the shot we automatically
assign her as being important.
We have looked at many different locations which can best create our mythical effect. When looking
for locations we decided we wanted to use an older house, whereby it can still have the same
spooky effect as a thriller film should have. We also looked at different forest like environments and
we have found one in Streatham, with a little pathway similar to the one describe in Little Red Riding
Hood.