Working Title
Tapp
Idea
My Idea is that the film is set in a house in a rural town in England.First we get a establishing shot of the house. It is showing a scene back in time from 1992 which will relate to the film later. I starts of with a girl lying down in bed by herself. We have a time place and date come up on screen over the video. She is sleeping however the bed quilt starts floating up as if there is a supernatural presence entering her bed. To do this i will edit the video using composeting, this means having to versions of the clip (one original/background and the other where you are making the affect happen). By doing this you can then mask out where you are on the video by masking it and put the original in the background. After the quilt sheets move, she wakes up looking at the camera in shock as if she is having a night mare. The camera angle with be looking down at her while shes asleep in her bed. Suddenly she hears tapping and gets out of bed to find out what it is. As she walks down the hallway with a torch with her she hears her shower on so she goes into the bathroom. She opens the door and finds the shower is turned on with the shower curtain open across so the person in the bath is hidden. She then drags the curtain to the side and the shower stops instantly, there is no one in the shower (this is the false scare). Suddenly she hears another loud tap so she walks around the top floor to find out what is it. When she gets back into her room she finds the sound coming from there l. Then while she's just in the middle of the room, the light turns off, so she turns her torch on and it lightens up her face. As she stands there in fear, suddenly in the background the face of a person appears as if a torch has been turned on underneath their face. While both faces are on screen the light switch suddenly turns back on and they both appear. The women turns around and then the "killer" slashes her neck and blood spurts over the camera. It then fades out to the titles.
Its X Meets Y
I am comparing it to two other existing films of which is the Grudge and ---. First the film Grudge (Shamizu Takashi, 2004) of which influences my idea. This is because right at the beginning of the film a women hears noises in coming from another room. This leads her to go searching for the sound's of which then appears to be a child hidden in the wardrobe. We are given a false scare thinking the noises are from a cat. However then straight away shows the child. This is what i'm doing in mine.
The second film i compared it too is Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2009) this is a "found footage" film which was a huge succeess. It relates to this film because there is a lot of false scares in the film which i plan to use. This creates more tension between the characters and the audience. Also in the film they use a lot of bangs and taps to create a scare. This makes the feel more of a horror and will scare the audience.
Narrative Synopsis
The opening of the film is flashback in time of what the killer has done. He is in jail at the moment, and he can't remember any thing he has done. He has killed several people and is a serial killer.
Narrative Exposition, Enigma , Propp, Todorov etc
The narrative exposition in this film is that we are given the time, date and location. This gives the audience information of what the film is about. We are told that it is in the past as it is set in 1992. The narrative enigma used is that we hear the sounds, and also see the quilt float up signifiying that their is something there. However when sarah gets murdered we are given the face of the killer.
Genre Signifiers
The genre signifiers in this are that the setting is at night time, she is in her house alone by herself which shows she is vunerable to anything. Also their is a knife which shows that this is a horror/slasher. Another thing is that the build up of tension with the sound effects and tap's show that it is a horror and somehting scary is going to happen.
Locations
The location is set in a rural town in England. It is in winter and the first scene is set at night. The rooms used will be her room, the bathroom, the hallway and spare room.
Other Mise-en-scene e.g. Props
The setting of the bedroom is that it will be a small room however the room will be spread out so there is a lot of space. The small room helps because it will make it a small confined room where she can't escape. The probs needed will be two torches, one for each character. A big butchers knife for the killer.
Cast + Characteristics
Sarah Myers - the women who dies
Killer
The Killer
The killer is a middle aged man, who is a serial killer. To date now he is in jail and the opening scene is a flashback.
Media Language
There will be a varitety of shots used in this film, inlcuding shot reverve shot, the 180 degree rule and also panning shots. I will use quick pace editing to give the film more tension and a sense of horror. The editing in the film will be that i will edit the quilt moving up and floating. Also the face of the kill will be edited so they look even scarier.
Target Audience: Primary + Secondary
The target audience will be aimed at 18-30 year olds because it will be too violent for under 18's and also not really appropriate for 50+.
The secondary target audience is from 30-45.
Summary: Why Yours
We should use my film idea because it has a lot of shot variety. It is very easy to record as it is set in a house, and we hardly need any props. Also we can use our editing techniqes to do quick pace editing on the scenes, aswell as editing the quilt effect.
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