Initial Coursework Ideas

First Initial Ideas

From the moment we were set our coursework we knew that we wanted to make our film opening within the genre of psychological horror or psychological thriller. Our location was set, and we had actors/actresses in mind and therefore began to try and create a story around these factors. One of our first initial ideas was to have a death in the barn at our location which could then be discovered and the mystery behind the whole of the movie would be to try and find out who the killer was. We decided to scrap this idea as it was not really within the genre of psychological horror or thriller, and was not quite imaginative enough for us. We then had the idea of an abduction, in which a stereotypical innocent young girl is taken from a barn and the mystery of where she is and who has been holding her is remained a secret until the end of the film. This idea contributed to our final idea which is about an abduction.

Our Final Idea

For our final coursework decision we decided to base it around an abduction using our location and actors/actresses. Our final idea is:

We begin the film with a pan shot of a quiet field at dawn. The screen turns black and we hear the digetic sound of running footsteps and heavy breathing. The screen focuses on a young girl running down a long path in a white dress with mud and blood on it. She has bruises and cuts on her face and barefeet. The first shot of the girl is at a high angle pan shot of her running, which is followed by a snapshot of a flashback which is in black and white (to show it is the past). We then go back to a handheld shot behind her watching her run which then snaps into a slightly longer flashback in which we see the young girl tied up. We then go back to a long shot of the girl running and yet again we go to another long flashback of the girl tied up and struggling. Following this shot we see the young girl from a high angle shot of her run into a barn. When inside the barn we see the girl lean on the a wall of the barn with a hole in and see someone walk past the hole. We follow the girl walking towards the entrance of the barn again and have a long shot of her and a man standing in the field. We close up to her face to see her reaction and then go back to the long shot but the man has dissappeared. The girl walks back to the wall with a hole and sits in front of it. We again see a man walk past the hole and the screen turns to black, and then returns to the shot of where she is sitting and she has gone. All we can see and hear is the wind passing through the hole, and then TITLES.