The Past Never Let’s Go…

Presents

Kayleigh, Daina and Jack

Our Pitch- “Hunted”

Our Main Idea for Our Opening…

• Our main idea for our opening of the film is that it starts of with being based around a little girl and the this unknown past. Through out the

opening- when the girl is skipping or walking to her mothers grave with flowers in hand and a teddy by her side- there will be flash backs where

the little girl is running through trees (forest), this may cause slight confusion with the audience but that will turn to concern as well as

interest towards this little girl... The little girl- Jane Doe, the name for a person with no identity- with this we are aiming create mystery and

that unknown danger… giving the audience a mix of emotions that they start to question. The little girl isn’t going to be the only ‘character’- this

unknown ‘danger’ feel we are trying to create will be enhanced when our antagonist is seen for the first time though not clearly. A slightly

blurred figure of a man standing in the background watching the little girl at the grave yard, dressed in a sharp black suit- red tie- shows the

audience this man is powerful and dangerous.

• This is where our message of ‘The Past Never Lets Go’…The Audience will start to question this little girls past and what really happened?

The Beginning, Middle and End…This will be where our film starts of

being a little girl called with only showing her feet as she is walking dressed in a pretty little dress with a little smudge of mud holding flowers and a teddy bear to bring to her mothers grave...talking to her self or singing an old nursery rhyme (this will be a glue as too how out of place/time she really is)as she is waling towards her mothers grave there will be flashbacks of her running from something- these flashbacks will be of past events that the audience will be unaware though her dress will have changed to a much older fashion. when she gets to her mothers grave, out of the corner of her eye she notices a blurred figure in a suit watching her…her body language changes- showing the audience that she knows this man and is frightened…the opening will end in a flash back with the girl screaming “DADDY…”

(The audience here will begin to realize that this little girl is in fact dead but stuck in this ‘in between’ state until her father lets her go) The middle of our film will consists of her meeting a family who are living in the house that her mother was murdered in… she tries to warn the family that her father doesn’t like anyone living in his house but they cant hear her or notice her…this is until the one of the children of this family has an accident that nearly killed him because of this he now has the ability to see things that he wasn’t able to before…things such as this little girl who is trying to warn him and his family that her father when he finds out his house is being lived in by strangers then he will come and murder every one. Now that this boy can communicate with the little girl he tries to help her and his family

The Ending of our horror film will then include where we find out the secrets of the past- What really happened that night the little girls mother died? With Time running out and the father getting more and more powerful the little girl is trying her best to help this family…even at the cost of her soul being claimed by her father. Eventually just when the little girl makes the deal with her father to let the family live…all she wants is too find her mother and save this family. The Boy discovers the gruesome secrets of her fathers past and what led to the murders… but will this stop the father from repeating past events and freeing the little girl to go and find her mother inthe promised afterlife?

What Was Our Inspiration?

• When looking at our ideas for our horror film, we mainly came up with ideas that revolved around the paranormal and then focused on the image of a little girl.

• When looking at other films that come under the paranormal horror

genre we came across the ‘The Conjuring’ and ‘Mama’.• With The Conjuring, we though of having the antagonist as an evil

spirt… In Mama, there are two young children with a strong bond with their ‘mother figure’ which is actually the misunderstood yet ‘evil spirit’ changing this to fit our idea we decided the ‘evil spirit’ to be that of the little girls father.

Our Horror Location…

WHY?The Church/Graveyard

Tydd St Giles

Our Horror Location…

WHY?Planned Trees/Flashback Scene Location

The Characters Within our Opening…In our opening of our horror film, the characters that are included is a little girl and a man however

throughout the Opening they are unknown and no names are given… Until a possible little hint at the end…

Our Little Girl Character…

For the audience the little girl is known as

Jane Doe…Jane Doe is the name for an

unknown person which in its self gives this

character an identity but at the same time

doesn’t…In the flash backs we have

decided to have the girl wear an old era

knighting gale look, with bare muddy feet.

This would connote that something has

happened to her however the audience

doesn’t know this. The audience would only

have the idea of going through the

graveyard whilst flash backs are being

shown to the audience…

This is what we would like our Little Girl to

look like:

Our Male Character:

In the opeining the audience

will only ever really see what

he is wearing…though we will

use an effect that makes him

slightly blurred.

The Male will be dressed in a

business type of suit with a

red tie this was needed to be

used so the audience can be

seen as being a powerful yet

dangerous character and has

something to do with this

little girl, but this is left for the

audience to work out…

Our Little Girl’s Costume Analysis…

Our Initial Male’s Costume Idea…

Our Target Audience we Plan to aim this at…

From Looking at the data that we collected we can see that we should be aiming towards 15 – 18 ages as many of our responses stated that they are the ages that Paranormal Films are more suitable for. This is due to the ‘maturity’ that this age group should have and the knowledge that what they see in the movies is from imagination and not reality. However, when reading these responses there was a shock, this was because most of the people who answered didn't really like horror or don't watch Paranormal horrors often. So using these it was hard for us to think about who our target audience was going to be. In the end we have decided our target audience will be 15-18+ however the movie its self will be a rating of 15 as there will be elements that wont be suitable for children- i.e. scenes that may be distressing with blood and little violence (the murders in possible flash backs throughout the movie)

Our Target Audience we Plan to aim this at…

Distribution…

• When looking at how we want to distribute our film/ opening, we decided to choose the:

INTERNET/SOCIAL SITES.This was because on the internet there is a much wider audience, we would know that our film will be distributed on a wide scale and also it allows the opportunity for the people to leave comments on their opinion of the film.

As the film is made by our independent production company it allows us a better opportunity in showing our film to everyone. Statistics say that ‘In Great Britain, 21 million households (83%) had Internet access in 2013’ (Office for national

statistics)