HIDE N' SEEK

SYNOPSIS• A group of college friends find out a man is living on top of one million pounds.

Their plan to break into the mans house and steal the money goes south as they find out they're not alone. Fighting for their lives the friends try to escape from not only the house but also the psychological games and traps of this mind twisted millionaire.  

KEY THEMES OF THE FILM

Psychological Thriller

Fear Suspense

Fast pace

Action/ crime

Conflict

Psychological issues

Money

Greed

Friendship

Games/ mind games

Obsession

CHARACTER INFORMATION• Charles: Charles is a  millionaire, house owner and mentally unstable. He

has an unhealthy desire to trap and torture the teenage thieves who have broken into his house. He has spent time in a psychiatric hospital due to his  mental health issues. Charles is undoubtedly very clever as he was also able to escape the psychiatric hospital on his own.

• Mia: Is the character who follows her friends, she is uncertain and doubtful of the robbery. This leaves her most vulnerable when she is later trapped and mentally tortured. This is shown through her nervous facial expressions and her cautious and uncertain body language.

• Olivia: Olivia is intelligent and so has the skills to organize the robbery without being caught. However, her intelligence will be challenged when they are un-expectantly made to play a series of psychological games. Olivia's intelligence is demonstrated through her strategic approach to the robbery. She uses a high level of intellect and skills to rob the house.

• Emily: Is the leader of the group. She was the one who initially suggested they break in and steal the mans money. Emily is determined to improve their lives with the money they will get from the robbery. She is later disappointed as her dream of becoming a millionaire turns into a nightmare. Emily's leadership is shown when she is the first person to run when breaking into the house. The idea of breaking in was originally her idea which also demonstrates her leadership and determination to steal the money.

TITLE AND OPENING SEQUENCEOur key themes will be hinted through:

• -Flash backs of the teens thoughts and actions that lead up to their entrapment.

• -Motives that have lead the teens to break into the house

• -History of obsession the millionaire has for the teens

• -Setting of the  millionaire's house, the psychiatric hospital and college.

• -First impressions of the characters• -Genre• -Protagonist and Antagonist 

 STORYBOARD IMAGES AND EXAMPLES FROM OTHER FILMS 

Silence Of The Lambs Storyboard for our Opening Title

Sequence

TARGET AUDIENCE PROFILE

• Our primary target audience will range from 16 – 24 year old's. The characters in the film range from 16-18 years old which means a lower and more specific aged group would relate to the characters situations increasing their chance of going to watch the film. A phycological thriller generally includes scenes of violence and psychological issues that may be disturbing to younger viewers. This determines our secondary target audience. 

• Due to the violent content our target audience would widen to 18-32 years old's. Although some psychological thrillers can include violence others  can include emotional and mental conflict instead. This balances out the male and female attraction making the target audience an equal mixture of both males and females.

Hobbies/interests: (Younger target audience)

The older target audience have interest in going out with their friends and working.

Media behavior: the younger target audience will have a broad range of social media sources. This would allow them to access the internet and so find out about the film. The younger target audience would use their phones, iPad and laptops. However, the older, secondary audience would most likely have less social media activity and use their phones for the internet.• TV programmes: Pretty Little Liars, Breaking bad, The Wire, Sherlock, Dexter, The Missing.• Films: Silence of the lambs, Fatal Attraction, Black Swan, Inception, Sixth Sense.

Meeting friends, photography, music, skateboarding

HOW OUR  TITLE AND OPENING SEQUENCE  WILL APPEAL TO OUR TARGET AUDIENCE

• Our title and opening sequence will appeal to our target audience because of the suspense building and thrilling elements within it which happens to be most popular among their age group as it keeps them on interested and intrigued.• The characters in the film have different personalities and traits. Some

on which will be relatable to our younger audience or remind the older audience members of their past selves when they would get up to mischief with their friendship groups. 

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