The Pitch.

For our pitch we had to do the following;

• 4 ideas outline
• Main story outline in more detail, showing good development and discussion of events leading to final scenes
• Main character outline - you should know them as well as you know yourself. detail personality, likes, dislikes, appearance, job, etc
• Ideas for location to use.
• Rough idea of opening sequence structure.
• Discussion of how genre can be identified through the opening sequence.
  

Main Idea.

Our chosen idea was 'Idea 4'

Characters;
Lynn Hartley - Young, brown hair, medium length, hates her job, divorced, drinks alot, is new to teaching and doesn't know how to control the students.

Nicholos JT Abdul - Tall, dark, rugged, muscly, nice, charming, can have any girl he wants, very popular and is always surrounded by friends.

Mick Lancaster - Secretly gay, tall, skinny, pale, well dressed, mysterious. He is in love with Nicholos but know one knows.

Jennifer Harte - Brunette, attractive, clever, insecure. She is Nicholos' girlfriend.

Martin McFly - Fat, stumpy, stupid, loves football and girls. Is lost without Nicholos and his other friends. He follows the crowd.

Eden Cook - His short and fat and lookd like Martin. Also bestfriends with Nicholos. Fights for his attention. Has a big mouth and thinks his better then everyone elses.

Casy Lube - Nerd, quite, clever, looks like a girl, not taken seriously, wears geeky clothes and glasses, gets bullied by the class because of Nicholos.

Corey Long - Big hair and big glasses, he also looks like a girl and is never noticed. He is Casey's best friend, they are always together. He enjoys maths and solving problems.

Dean Lebean - Emo, quite, never noticed, dark and mysterious, odd, loves emo rock music. Enjoys reading about black magic.

Amy Cozens - Long blonde hair, abit of a bimbo, eye candy, stupid and dopey.

Francis Jones - Ginger, freckles, loud, idiot, loves pulling pranks with his friends.

Shelly Took - Blonde, beautiful, not as stupid as people make her out to be, Her dad is in the Army. She follows Amy around. Enjoys shopping and boys.

Luke Harris - Tall, skinny, idiot, thinks his funny by always taking the piss out of people. Thinks his amazing. Follows everyone around.

Charles Dimond - Inspector, tall, charming, good looking, good at solving problems. His married with 2 children. Loves hi job and playing golf.

Will Scarlight - Charles' sidekick, the complete opposite to Charles. He is short and fat and doesn't know what his talking about. He likes women and beer.


Main Idea in full;
Its a typical Monday morning at college for a normal bunch off students. They are waiting to go into there class but they all start arguing as they don't really get on.

The teacher Lynn Hartley turns up and she is not in the best off moods because her husband has left her. She breaks up all the fights that is going on and tells the kids to go inside the class. The decides to put a film on for the kids as she is not in the mood. The students are still not happy with each other. While the movie is being played there is a murder in the class and it is one off the most popular kids in the class Nicholas Jt Abdul. The scene end in all the class shocked and scared and a big police line going across the room.

The police are called into investigate it is young rookie Will Scarlight and his role model Charles Diamond. They take statements from all the kids and let them go home. The students are all devastated but start to head home. Two off the students are class bullies Casey Lube and Corey Long. They start talking about all the time they were bullied by Nicholas. They say there goodbyes and when Casey is walking down the road a shadow moves in the corner and we get the feeling that there is going to be another victim. The suspense is starting to build up for Casey as he keeps hearing things behind him but when he shouts out nobody is there. he carries on walking then suddenly when he turns round he says its you and then a knife comes out and stabs he though neck. The screen goes black and then it is the next day.

The next day starts with the two police officers trying to sort though all the statements and trying to discuss who is telling the truth and who is lying. Then a call comes in about a new murder in the town and it is one off the students in the class they set off to investigate. Mean while back at the college the kids are back trying to forget about the horrors off yesterday. But it all gets too much for one off the students Amy Cozens and she decides to go to the toilet. While she is in the toilet she gets her phone out and is about to call somebody till the door off the toilets creaks open it stops her in her tracks and she is waiting for this person to leave. But while she looks though her phone a knife is dropped from above her and goes though her head. Meanwhile Caseys body has been taken back to the station and the two officers headback to the college to ask more questions. They also have there first clue Nicks phone and it has texts from lynn. They were having an affair behind there partners backs.

Amys body has been discovered by one off the teachers and lynn decides too call a class meeting with her students. They all get there feeling nervous as they have found out two more kids have died. In the meeting the class starts agruging and accusing each other off the murders. The main one is luke harris who is winding everyone up and is trying to get someone to get angry and it works and one off nicholas best mates Martin Mcfly tries to punch him but eden cook stops him. Lynn makes the students walk home in twos and she tells them to keep in contact with her. When the students leave they aren't happy but agree.

When lynn starts lighting up a cigarette and then two shadows pop -up behind and she is about to tell them to go home then she is stopped when she is stabbed and is left.
This shows that there is two killers. The police turn up to arrest but they now find her dead. They need to find the students as they are in danger. On the way home all the students get a text from "lynn" to meet at the woods near the college.

They all seem non the wiser to what is going to happen. But Corey is very wary and decides to walk off when he sees the woods to try and find the coppers but luke carries on cocky as ever calling corey a loser for walking off. As he carries on into the woods he treads on a pile off leaf and falls into a bunch of spikes and he is left to bleed to death.

In the other part off the woods Mick Lancaster and Shelly Took enter the woods. They start to head towards the shed were they all used to hang out in. While they are talking Shelly trips over. When mick goes to help her up she wacks him in the face with a log.

Ideas.

Idea 1;
Business type guy, late 20s gets home after a months business trip abroad and comes back to an empty, cold, dark, desolate house (so cold he can see his own breath). Noises start to emanate from the kitchen and so he walks in (lights aren't working in kitchen) and he can see its been trashed and food from the fridge is all over the floor. He ventures up stairs to find his room light on with the television on and the shower is running. He then hears a noise coming from the landing so he runs out and looks into one of the spare rooms. Then its a close up of half his face and the landing and the stairs. The camera angle then changes to the persons point of view coming up the stairs, so the camera is wobbley to imitate movement whilst walking up the stairs and walks up behind him and wackes his round the head, but just that instant the screen goes blank and credits start. The we cut to a flash back of him leaving his house where its all warm, cosy and lit up well (complete contrast to the house at the start, but still the same house). He is leaving the house for his sister to take care of. After he leaves she locks the door and walks up stairs and turns the television on and turns the shower on. thirst getting ready she hears broken glass at the front door. Panicking, she runs into one of the spare rooms and waits till what ever it is comes up the stairs. When the thing is not on the landing she runs up to the bedroom on the top floor (convention of a horror where they run up the stairs instead of down) when the person is in one of the other rooms she manages to creep down stairs and grab a weapon to hit the thing with. She then makes her way up the stairs with it and wake the person with it and the screen goes blank once again.

Idea 2;
A boy and a girl are having an argument in a park, and the girl ends up dumping the boy. He is upset and walks off though the park and into the woods.
When he is walking he walks past some odd looking old people sitting on a bench, they are all staring at him.
Then he treads on a news paper, with the words 'INMATES ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM STAY INDOORS'
Then he walks back to the way he came to see if his ex-girlfriend is okay. Then he hears he her scream. He starts running. He runs past the bench and the people have gone. As he s running he can hear his ex-girlfriend screaming and crying, and he can hear people laughing. When he gets to her she is dead on the floor, she has been cut up. As he bends down to her he is hit over the head with a baseball bat. He then awakes in a dark room tied to a chair.

Idea 3;
Bomb hits a village in war using nuclear bombs. The radiation turns most the villagers into zombies with gas masks. They get their revenge by killing survive rs from the village by sucking their blood in true zombie style and taking their souls from their body.

Idea 4;
It starts off as an average school day, students are outside the classroom waiting to go in. They are making a lot of noise and are arguing. The teacher (Lynn Hartley) arrives to class on time at 9am. In the first shot we see all the students walking into the class room and sitting down at their desks. The teacher says they're going to watch a 10min film on the projector. The lights go out. Once the lights have been put back on, one of the characters (Nicholas JT Abdul) has been murdered by being stabbed in the next and is lying in blood on the table at the back of the class. The whole classis in shock and are being questioned by police, there is no trust among the class mates as it could of been any one of them, but then the students start dying and there are only a few students left. The story is revealled when they all get a text message from their teacher (who has been killed at this point but has not yet been found) telling them to meet up in a shed to talk about whats going on and all the weird murders that are happening at school. Then the murders are revealed to be Dean Lebean and Shelly Took after some more students have been killed.

We have chosen our 4th idea :)

Continuity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRlLKYeEVaw

Questionnaire Results.

Most of the people we asked were aged from 15-17. So the results are mostly coming from a teenagers view. The most popular setting was 'a house' and the second was 'in the woods' A lot of the people we asked mainly expected to see blood and gore in films, they were the highest to come in with the questionnaire. People also wanted to see chase films, because a horror film is not a horror film with out adrenaline.
A lot of the people we asked to fill the questionnaire said they only watched 0-3 horror films in the past month, which is showing that people haven't really been intrested. When we asked what peoples favorite horror film was the film that came up the most were the Saw films and Evil Dead came second. Halloween, The Ring and Friday the 13th came in at joint 3rd.

Questionnaire.

How old are you?
15 – 17  18 – 21  Other 

What is your gender?
Female  Male 

What is your Favourite Genre of film?
Romantic Comedy  Horror  Thriller  Other 
What is your favourite setting for a horror film?
House  Woods  School  Work Place 
Other please specify: ______________________

What do you expect to see in a horror film?
Blood  Violence  Gore  Chasing scenes 
Other please specify: _________________________

How many horror films have you watched in the past month?
0 – 3  4 – 6  7 or more 

What do you like about horror films? Why do you watch them?
Please specify: _______________________________________

What is your favourite horror film?
Please specify: ____________________

Have you seen any of the recent horror films at the cinema?
Saw VI  The Fourth Kind  Halloween II  Triangle 
Other please specify: _________________________________

Research; Horror Films.

The first horror films were mainly monster movies. They were silent short films.

The 18 certificate is suitable for adults only. No persons under the age of 18 are allowed to watch these films in the cinema or be able to buy them.
They contain violence, sex adult and mature scenes.

In 2008 there were 28 horror films released.
The most expensive horror film was The Exorcist (Warner Bros., 1973) it got $402,500,000.

The top 10 horror films are;

10. Hellraiser

9. Evil Dead

8. Dawn of The Dead

7. Nightmare on Elm Street

6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

5. Alien

4. Halloween

3. The Thing

2. Videodrome

1. The Shining

Horror films are more popular around halloween because people want to be scared. Horror films are not normally released at christmas or in the summer.

People expect blood, voilence, gore and they want to be scared. A horror film would not be a horror without these conventions.

There are different types of genres within the genre 'Horror'
Horror films are often combined Sci - Fi films, this is when there are monsters, aliens, derranged beings or the corruption of technology are involed.
The fantasy and supernatural genres are not usually synonymous with the horror genre. There are many sub-genres of horror: slasher, teen terror, serial killers, satanic, Dracula, Frankenstein, etc.

• Comedy Horror Films
• Zombie Films
• Cannibalism in Popular Culture
• Monster Movie
• Psychological Horror
• Slasher Film
• Survival Horror
• Urban Gothic
• Vampire Films
• Werewolf Films

Certificates.

U - U certificate is normally for people of any age, but are aimed at people over the age of 4 years of age. There is no offencive language or sexual scenes in U films, because they are normally for young children.

PG - PG means Parental Guidance. Some scenes may be unsuitable for young children. PG films are aimed at children 8 years and older. There may be an odd curse word in a PG but nothing that would disturb children. PG films do not contain offencive language or sexual scenes.

12 - 12 certificate are suitable for children over the age of 12 and is more of a 'teen' film certificate. There may be swearing in a 12 certificate film, but nothing too offencive. They may be discrete nudity and there may be drugs/violence reference. No one under the age of 12 can purchase a 12 rated film.

15 - No one under the age of 15 can purchase a 15 rated film. This rated film will contain strong language. It may be offencive and disturbing for children under the age of 15. There will be reference to drug and violence. There may be sex scenes and nudity in these films.

18 - These films are only suitable for people 18 and over. Strong language is used. Strong drug and violence will also be in these films too. There may be sex scenes and nudity in these films too.