Explanation for stalking

To understand more deeply about the practice of stalking i researched all about the facts and figure, why people do it, how its done and different sections of stalking. I did this to add a more realistic effect in our media opening.

Stalking did not become a crime in the United States until 1994, following several sensationalized incidents including the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Shaffer by an obsessed fan. Definitions of the crime of stalking vary by State and can include the presence of a specific act, a threat, or intent to cause harm or fear. Some States require that one, two, or all three elements are present for stalking behavior to be considered criminal. In addition to protecting victims of stalking, anti-stalking laws have successfully increased awareness and research efforts regarding stalking behavior. Prevalence estimates of stalking are offered, which indicate that women’s risk of being stalked during their lifetime is 1 in 12, while men’s risk of being stalked is 1 in 45. Victim and offender characteristics are presented, which indicate that 86 percent of all stalking victims are below the age of 40 years. Five types of stalkers are identified: (1) the rejected; (2) intimacy seekers; (3) the resentful; (4) the predatory; and (5) the incompetent. Other researchers have classified stalkers as: (1) simple obsessional; (2) love obsessional; and (3) erotomaniac. Female stalkers are rare but not nonexistent and they tend to suffer from mental illness or disorders. Theoretical explanations of stalking behavior generally rely on psychological analyses of the phenomenon in which the behavior of stalkers is explained by the presence of various personality disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, or schizophrenia. Treatment approaches tend to focus on individualized treatment of specific mental illnesses and disorders while prevention approaches focus on victim protective measures. Much work remains to be done on understanding the crime of stalking, including how to treat offenders and better protect victims.

Red road is based upon a women stalking a male character, i used this film to help me in how we can go about, filming our stalking.

new idea

As a group we decided to change our idea and put our film genre as a thriller about a stalker o this was one of the films i researched based upon stalkers. 

Fake Bruise

This was also to help with the violence, which would have occurred to our character, to add more of a realistic effect.

Fake blood

I used this video in an attempt to help me make fake blood for our own personal video, to have a stronger effect on how violent the attack was to our character

Drug scene

We used this video to give us a wider view on how drug use occurs and through it may help us in, how we could display our main character taking drugs, more so the effect it may have.

Our idea

Our idea for our two minute film opening is based upon a young girl who we assume is a prostitute from first encounter. This would be because of the clothes that she would be wearing and the physical abuse she had suffered.

The clip would start with the young girl looking in the mirror at her reflection and it would reveal bruises and acts on violence, this would be continued with the mental effect it has on her mind from the pain she has suffered during her life. This scene would end with her closing her eye.

Once her eyes would close it would fade out into a flashback to highlight how the violence occurred from one of her 'nights on the job'. This would then switch to  shot of her front door opening and the character stumbling in with drugs in her one hand, and signs of the violence. she would then slide down the door and begin to inject the drugs she has purchased. Then the opening would end with her passing out.