our idea

2. • A MUM WITH A TEENAGE ONLY CHILD, THE MUM ABUSES THE SON AND HE GOES MISSING AFTER AN EPISODE
AND KILLS HIMSELF BY DROWNING.
• WANTS TO GET REVENGE, BY TORTURING ALL THE OTHER TEENAGERS IN THE VILLAGE.
• GROUP OF TEENAGERS GO TO THE RUINS BECAUSE OF HAUNTING RUMOURS.
• GROUP OF TEENAGERS FIND EVIDENCE OF THE SUICIDE, HEAR SCREAMS AND EERIE NOISES, SCARED THEY GO
HOME.
• THE GROUP IS THEN HARASSED ONE BY ONE, STILL THINKING THEY’RE PRANKING ONE ANOTHER. THE FILM
IS SELF AWARE AND IRONIC.
• THE FILMS ENDS WITH THE FINAL GIRL GOING TO THE MUM, SO SHE CAN APOLOGISE, THE BOY KILLS THE
MUM. THE POLICE TURN UP DUE TO REPORTED SCREAMS OVER THE RUINS, THEY TRY TO COMFORT THE GIRL,
MUMBLING ABOUT GHOSTS AND HER FRIENDS DYING AND GETS PUT IN CUFFS AND TAKEN AWAY.
BRIEF NARRATIVE

3. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
•BURGH CASTLE RUINS: SITUATED NEAR A RIVER WITH SOME MARSH LAND THE
BURGH CASTLE RUINS ARE A KEY LOCATION FOR OUR HORROR FILM. THIS IS WHERE
MULTIPLE KEY EVENTS OF THE FILM HAPPEN. THE BOYS SUICIDE TAKES PLACE HERE AND IT
WHERE THE 4 TEENAGERS GO TO INVESTIGATE THE ‘HAUNTING’ RUMOURS. THE FIRST DEATH
IN THE FILM ALSO HAPPENS AT THIS LOCATION. THE RUINS ARE EERIE AT NIGHT DUE TO THE
LACK OF LIGHTING MAKING THEM THE PERFECT PLACE TO GET MANY OF OUR MORE EERIE
AND NIGHT-TIME SHOTS.

4. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
•CHARLEY’S HOUSE: SCARED AND WARY OF THE STRANGE AND HORRIFIC
THINGS THAT HAPPENED AT THE RUINS THE TEENAGERS RECRUIT BACK TO ONE OF
THEIR HOUSES TO CALM DOWN AND RELAX. THE THREE OF THEM TALK BEFORE ONE
LEAVES TO GO HOME, WHERE THEY ARE KILLED BY THE GHOST. UNKNOWN TO THE
OTHER TWO THEY GO TO SLEEP. ANOTHER KEY PLACE AS IT IS WHERE THE THIRD
DEATH HAPPENS, ONE OF THE FEMALES IN A ‘SLEEPWALK’ STATE JUMPS OFF OF THE TOP
OF THE BUILDING.

5. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
•ST NICHOLAS’ CHURCH: WE WILL BE USING THIS LOCATION FOR ANOTHER
ONE OF THE MAJOR CHARACTER DEATHS HAPPENS. JAY WILL BE WALKING BACK TO HIS
HOUSE LATE AT NIGHT WHEN HE SEES THE GHOST AT THE END AND AFTER THIS HE
SEES THE GHOST OF CHRISTIAN EVERYWHERE BEFORE HE HAS AN ANEURYSM. THIS IS A
GOOD LOCATION FOR THIS TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THE FACT THAT IT IS A CHURCH AND
GRAVEYARD MAKES IT MORE EERIE AND ADDS TO THE HORROR ELEMENT.

6. CHARACTER PROFILES
•CHAD: THE ATHLETIC AND ARROGANT ONE IN THE GROUP OF TEENAGERS.
• HE IS THE ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN GHOSTS OR THE IDEA THAT THEY ARE BEING
HAUNTED. THINKS THAT GOING TO THE RUINS TO INVESTIGATE THE ‘SUICIDE’ IS STUPID
AND A WASTE OF TIME. HE IS THE FIRST ONE TO DIE AS HE IS THE FIRST FROM THE
GROUP WHO DECIDES TO GO HOME ON HIS OWN, AND DUE TO HIM NOT BELIEVING AND
BEING SCEPTICAL HE DIES FIRST WHEN HE IS ALONE IN HIS CAR. IT IS MADE TO LOOK
LIKE HE HAS DIED IN A CAR CRASH, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY DUE TO THE GHOST THAT HE
SAW JUST BEFORE HE DIED.
• FOR THE TRAILER CHAD WILL BE WEARING CLOTHES THAT PORTRAY HIS CHARACTER
TYPE; LIKE TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS AND TOPS, AS THIS WILL PORTRAY HIS CHARACTER IN
THE SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THE TRAILER WILL ROLE FOR.
•THE HELPER

7. •JAY: THE ‘PRANKSTER’ OF THE GROUP.
• HE IS SKEPTICAL ABOUT THEM BEING HAUNTED AND CONTINOUSLY TORMENTS THE
GROUP BY PLAYING PRAKS ON THEM SUCH AS SCARING THEM OR DOING THINGS THAT
WOULD MAKE THEM BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE REALLY BEING HAUNTED. HE IS THE
SECOND ONE TO DIE WHEN HE LEAVES THE REAMINING GROUP AT CHARLEY’S AND
DECIDES TO GO HOME, THE REASON FOR HIS DEATH IS THE FACT THAT HE WAS MAKING
FUN OF THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTING.
• IN THE TRAILER JAY WILL BE WEARING MODERN DAY CLOTHES, SUCH AS JEANS, A T-
SHIRT AND A JACKET, AS THIS COULD PORTRAY HIS CHARACTER, BECAUSE THERE ARE
NO SPECIFIC CLOTHES THAT REPRESENT A PRANKSTER.
•THE HELPER
CHARACTER PROFILES

8. •MADDISON: IS THE ‘ACADEMIC’ AND ‘REALIST’ CHARACTER.
• MADDISON IS THE ONE WHO DOESN’T THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO GO AND INVESTIGATE THE
SUICIDE AND THE PLACE WHERE IT HAPPENED. SHE BELIEVES IN THE SUPERNATURAL IS
VERY PARANOID ABOUT BEING HAUNTED OR PUNISHED FOR BOTHERING THE SPIRIT. DUE TO
HER PARANOIA SHE IS THE 3RD MEMBER OF THE GROUP TO DIE.
• ONCE AGAIN SHE WILL BE WEARING MODERN DAY CLOTHES THAT HAVE A SLIGHTLY
REPRESENTATION TOWARDS HER CHARACTER – SHIRT AND JEANS – SO THAT IT ISN’T TOO
OBVIOUS WHAT TRAIT SHE HAS IN THE GROUP.
•THE HELPER
CHARACTER PROFILES

9. •CHARLEY: OUR FINAL GIRL WHO SURVIVES UNTIL THE END.
• IN THE NARRATIVE THE FINAL GIRL IS SIMILAR TO THE ‘REALIST’ CHARACTER EXCEPT
SHE ISN’T AS PARANOID ABOUT THE SPIRIT, SHE BELIEVES IN GHOSTS BUT DOES
BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN REALLY HAUNT OR HURT YOU. SHE SURVIVES UNTIL THE END
OF THE FILM WHERE SHE TRIED TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT BETWEEN THE GHOST OF THE
BOY AND HIS MOTHER SO THAT EVERYTHING IS ‘OVER.’ DESPITE THIS WE SEE HER BEING
TAKEN AWAY BY THE POLICE DUE TO HER MENTAL STATE AFTER WITNESSING THE
DEATH OF SO MANY PEOPLE.
• MODERN DAY CLOTHING – A JUMPER AND JEANS – SOMETHING THAT IS QUITE
ANDROGYNOUS TO REPRESENT HER CHARACTER TYPE.
•THE ‘FINAL GIRL’ AND HERO
CHARACTER PROFILES

10. •CHRISTIAN: THE VILLAIN THE BOY WHO IS ABUSED BY HIS MOTHER,
HE KILLS HIMSELF AT THE RUINS AND CANNOT BE AT REST DUE TO HIS ABUSE.
HE IS DISTURBED BY THE TEENAGERS AND TORMENTS THEM ONE BY ONE AND
EVENTUALLY KILLS THEM. HE WILL BE WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND LOOK
VERY PALE AND GHOSTLY, WILL BE FAIRLY TALL AND HAVE A ‘POWERFUL’ AURA
ABOUT HIM.
•MRS THORNE: DOESN’T FEATURE MUCH, PLAYED BY A WOMAN AGED BETWEEN
30-50, WHO ALSO WEARS DARK CLOTHING DUE TO HER REGRET ABOUT HER SON. SHE
WANTS TO CONTACT HIM SO SHE CAN ASK FOR HIS FORGIVENESS BUT DOES NOT KNOW
HOE TO DO SO. SHE FINALLY GETS TO APOLOGISE IN THE END, BUT THIS STILL RESULTS
IN HER DEATH.
CHARACTER PROFILES

11. • A MOTHER, MRS THORNE, ABUSES HER ONLY SON. SHE TREATS HIM POORLY EVERYDAY AND BEATS
HIM, ON THIS PARTICULAR DAY SHE TELLS HIM TO GO KILL HIMSELF. THE BOY, CHRISTIAN, HEADS
DOWN TO THE OLD RUINS NEAR THEIR HOUSE AND WALKS INTO THE BROADS, THE CURRENT
DRAGS HIM UNDER AND ALL THAT REMAINS IS HIS CRUCIFIX AND HIS T SHIRT FLOATING ON TOP OF
THE WATER.
• 6 MONTHS LATER, A GROUP OF TEENAGERS WHO ARE IN COLLEGE DECIDE TO GO TO THE RUINS
AND GO ‘GHOST HUNTING’ AS A JOKE. THE PRANKSTER, JAY, DECIDES TO BRING HIS CAMERA GEAR
TO MAKE IT FEEL REAL AND TRIES TO SCARE THE OTHER FRIENDS BY SAYING ‘THEY’RE GOING TO
CATCH A GHOST ON CAMERA’. WHEN THEY ARRIVE AT THE RUINS A WOMAN TELLS THE GROUP NOT
TO ENTER THE RUINS AFTER DARK AS THE RUINS ARE HAUNTED FROM THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY
WHO KILLED HIMSELF 6 MONTHS PRIOR, DUE TO HIS MOTHERS ABUSE HE CAN NOT BE AT REST
AND HARASSES THOSE WHO ENTER THE RUINS AND DISTURB HIM.
BEGINNING

12. • AFTER THE SUN HAS SET THE GROUP ARE NEARLY DONE FILMING THE RUINS, THEY GO
DOWN NEAR THE WATER WHERE THE BOY ALLEGEDLY KILLED HIMSELF. THEY FIND A
CRUCIFIX IN THE MUD AN PULL IT OUT, WHILE STARING AT THE CROSS THEY HEAR A
SCREAM, THEY ALL TURN TO QUICKLY LOOK TOWARDS MADDISON WHO CAN SEE A T-
SHIRT CAUGHT IN THE BUSHES ACROSS THE WATER. AS THE COLLEGE TEENAGERS
TOUCH THE CROSS IT DISTURBS THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY, WHO IS ANGRY. THIS IS THE
DISRUPTION STAGE.
DISRUPTION

13. THE TEENAGERS ARE NOW UNDER HARASSMENT OF THE SPIRIT, ALTHOUGH AT THIS
STAGE THEY ARE ALL SCEPTICAL AND CHAD DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ANYTHING
SUPERNATURAL. HE SAYS HOW HE’S HAD ENOUGH OF ALL THIS AND DECIDES TO GO BACK
TO THE CAR, THE GROUP SLOWLY WALK BACK TO THE CAR PARK ONLY TO FIND CHAD
COVERED IN BLOOD WITH SCRATCH MARKS AND BITE MARKS WITH HIS HEAD ON THE
STEERING WHEEL AND HIS CAR CRASHED INTO A HEDGE WITH SMOKE POURING OUT OF
THE CAR. IT IS ASSUMED CHAD CRASHED HIS CAR AND HE IS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL BUT
PASSES IN HOSPITAL. CHARLEY IS SCEPTICAL AND THINKS IT WAS SOMETHING TO DO
WITH THE SPIRIT, SEEMS AS CAR CRASHES DON’T CAUSE BITE MARKS. THEY ALL HEAD
BACK TO CHARLEY’S AND BEGIN TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE AROUND THE THORNE RUINS
SUICIDE.
SITUATION

14. QUEST
• AFTER MUCH HARASSMENT FROM WHAT SEEMED TO BE UNEXPLAINED. CHARLEY DETERMINES
THAT THEY ARE BEING FOLLOWED AND INDIVIDUALLY PICKED OFF ONE BY ONE. CHARLEY SAYS
THEY SHOULD STAY TOGETHER, MADDISON STAYS WITH CHARLEY BUT JAY DECIDES TO GO HOME
AS HE IS SCEPTICAL. ON JAYS WALK ON THE WAY HOME DOWN AN ALLEYWAY HE SEES A FIGURE,
THEN BEGINS TO COUGH HARD, HE RUNS THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND BREAKS DOWN,
COUGHING BLOOD, BLOOD COMES OUT OF HIS EYES AND EARS AND HE FINALLY BREAKS DOWN TO
THE GROUND.
• MEANWHILE BACK AT CHARLEY’S HOUSE, ASLEEP TOGETHER IN BED. MADDISON AWAKES AND IN
A ‘SLEEPWALK’ TRANCE WALKS UP TO THE WINDOW AND JUMPS, FALLING TO HER DEATH. WE AS
AN AUDIENCE HEAR A SCREAM FROM CHARLEY’S MUM. CHARLEY RECEIVES NEWS THAT JAY DIED
ON THE WAY HOME DUE TO AN ANEURYSM AND MADDISON DIED EARLIER THAT MORNING DUE
TO FALLING OFF THE HOUSE. CHARLEY SHOOK AND DISTRAUGHT SWEARS TO END THIS CURSE
AND SETS OUT TO FIND MRS. THORNE TO SEE IF SHE HAS ANY ANSWERS.

15. ENDING
• CHARLEY CONFRONTS MRS. THORNE AND AFTER MUCH CONVINCING DECIDES TO CONFRONT THE
SPIRIT OF HER SON. THIS IS TO TRY AND PUT THE SON AT PEACE FROM THE MOTHER
APOLOGISING FOR ALL HER ACTIONS. WHILE SHE IS APOLOGISING ON HER KNEES WITH A
CRUCIFIX ON HER HANDS, SHE SUDDENLY HAS HER NECK BROKEN AND FALLS TO THE GROUND,
CHARLEY PANICS AND RUNS OVER TO MRS. THORNE, SETTING THE CAMERA DOWN ON A ROCK,
SUDDENLY, POLICE SIRENS ARE HEARD AND TWO POLICEMEN COME INTO THE FRAME, THEY
CHECK MRS. THORNE’S PULSE WHILE CHARLEY MUTTERS ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF THE BOY,
SUDDENLY THE OFFICERS TURN TO CHARLEY, ONE OF THEM TRIES TO COMFORT HER WHILE THE
OTHER SUDDENLY RESTRAINS HER FROM BEHIND, THE LAST SCENE IN THE FILM IS A SHOT OF
CHARLEY BEING DRAGGED OUT OF FRAME BY THE TWO POLICE OFFICERS FOR THE FALSE
MURDER OF MRS. THORNE, THE CAMERA CONTINUES ROLLING FOR 30 SECONDS WITH THE SUN
SETTING AND JUST MRS. THORNE’S BODY IN FRAME, SUDDENLY THE CAMERA IS KNOCKED OVER
ON THE FLOOR OFF THE ROCK BY AN UNSEEN FORCE, ROLLING BLACK FOR A FEW SECONDS
BEFORE CUTTING OUT.