Today's discussion - suicide scene

Today we came together as a group and discussed how we were going to shoot the suicide scene. We have had many ideas for this throughout the planning, as follows:

1. Our first idea was for the suicide to be a hanging death, where the character would use an iconic item, we had ideas of a school tie which relates to the theme and expresses our emotional hook. This also related to Burton's theory where I found icons are key elements when identifying a genre. 
2. We then decided the death in form of the character jumping in front of a train, this not only would cause drama and create a sense of enigma but it would also relate to the setting of a school and how people travel to school.
3. We then discussed a original suicide idea which was slitting the wrist but as a group we did not feel this exaggerated the death enough.
4. Our fourth idea was to use a river and the death be a drowning scene. We felt this would be significant in showing isolation from wider society which is a theme throughout horror. However, when planning this scene we felt we were going to be limited with shot types and positioning because of the river. This led us to our final idea.

We have come to the decision of the suicide being a bath scene, where Kate slits her wrist in the bath and the loss of blood takes over and she drowns. We have merged the two key ideas above to ensure the strongest death which would attract and motivate the audience. We felt this would also build mystery and create a sense of enigma. The use of a bath allows us to explore different shot types and capture the death and gore of the character. We had to consider the BBFC and how this affects our trailer and we have decided not to show detail and we will show a negative infliction of pain.