Narrative/plot
It begins with our female character waking up bound and gagged in a dirty ditch, she realises where she is she begins to try and recall The opening is about a girl who's on her way to meet her friends to do drugs and other illicit activities . As she is about to leave her house she hears on the radio/television that people have been going missing. She walks down the dimly lit road and as she walks takes no notice of the missing posters with peoples faces on them. The audience get a view of her walking down the street from behind the bushes/ trees(from one of the killer's point of view). The audience follows her journey as she walks under a bridge and as she's walking an out of focus figure emerges from behind a column. She walks up the stairs and onto the bridge. The girl sees a masked figure at the other end of the bridge, we see the look of caution in a close up of her face. The masked figure starts to walk towards her, she turns around in an attempt to flee however she is greeted with another masked figure. They both begin to walk towards her she screams in a series of fast paced case up quick cuts. The screen fades to black.
Bonus footage(optional). She finally remembers how she got there, however footsteps can be heard and as she looks up she see boots coming down the steps and the last shot is of her weeping crying face as she screams.
Characters
We looked at various iconic slasher villains and came up with killers that we feel are a combination of multiple; We're having two killers as we see this as a bigger threat and makes the victim more hopeless as there is no way she can escape her fate, films such as 'Scream' have two killers and towards the end of the film he see Sydney feeling more scared and hopeless when she realised that the murderers are Billy and Stu. In terms of the physicality of our killers, we're having them tall but not necessarily big built or muscly- as we wanted a more human and real character not a supernatural monster of a man like Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers. However where we did take inspiration from these characters is their masks, we wanted masked killers because we believe it creates a scarier effect, when you can't see the face/eyes of the person drawing the knife on you or approaching you in the dark. Another idea we have for the mask is based off of Leather face from "Texas chainsaw massacre" which is made of his victims skin, an idea so sickening that we believe it will be terrifying. In addition to the fact the killers remain voiceless, just like Jason and Michael. The killers are also partly based off of the design of the killers from the film 'The purge-anarchy', in that apart from the masks they're wearing everyday clothing like hoodies and jeans. Our protagonist is a young girl who is on her way to do drugs with her friends and other debauchery. Of course being at the start of the horror film and doing these activities, by horror conventions, means something bad must happen to her. In fact in the movie 'Scream', Randy states that one of the rules to surviving a horror film is that you can drink or do drugs. We're not making her the final girl, more like Drew Barrymore's character, Casey, in the same film, she flirts with the killer on the phone despite having a boyfriend is killed off in the films opening.
Setting
We looked at a variety of settings from different films e.g. the woods, cabin in the woods, abandoned warehouse, domestic settings like the house etc. We came to decision to set it in multiple locations. Firstly in the domestic setting of a house, but to create the appropriate atmosphere in which our female character would live, we are going to have white dirty sheets up all over the room with not many items; a few cigarettes, a needle and some alcohol and a few other times that would generally be seen in a house such as lamps and a tv to show she isn't so far removed from social conventions.
The next setting is the dark street, the street is dimly lit and at night giving an eerie and ominous atmosphere, the sides of the street are trees and bushes which removes the local familiar setting of a road filled with houses. This leads onto the bridge/overpass which only has one exit and entrance which isolates our female character.
The last location is a dirty ditch in which our female character will be tied up and gagged. This will give the sense of entrapment.
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