Electra was bullied as a child and now seeks revenge by killing her former classmates. The film would open with a shot of children on a playground, then cut to Electra crying in the school toilet before kicking the door aggressively. As an adult, Electra stalks and kills her classmates one by one, following them into isolated areas like the forest or back alleys at night. She dresses in dark, intimidating clothing to conceal her identity as the killer.

1. Pitch for Film
Opening
BY EVIE GIBBONS

2. Narrative idea/Genre
Narrative idea
 Attractive female killer who kills boys
with her attraction/body (male
gaze)and girls who bullied her.
 Electra (Evie Gibbons) gets bullied and
unnoticed as a kid then turns a
hungry eye on guys who never
wanted her before but she wanted
them and also to the girls who
laughed at her/bullied her and were
popular.
 Horror/slasher genre
 Electra (killer) wants revenge on the
classmates so she will kill them one by
one or some at once when they are all
together in some place e.g. forest or
bedroom/house or town, when they
split up to go back home some way.

3. GENRE - film opening examples
Jennifer’s Body
 The main protagonist, Jennifer, was
pure and virgin but got taken in a van
by a group of men (a band) who
wanted to do a ritual by using a virgin
as sacrifice to become more famous
as a band. The group of men left her
there to die but instead of dying in
this process, Jennifer got possessed
by a demon that took over her body
and made her want to eat boys. She
needed to eat humans. So, this is how
she became the killer.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
 Mandy Lane, a shy and pensive teenager at her
rural Texas high school. She is both a shy misfit
and a popular outsider, who keeps distance from
her peers, particularly the males who find her an
object of extreme sexual desire; the exception is
her best friend, Emmet. Mandy's parents died
during her childhood. In conceiving her
character, Heard stated that Mandy Lane
"[represents] many, many real girls. Many real
teenagers, especially in America. There are a lot
of incidents of this kind of violence in school
with the perpetrators being cute teenagers
against their classmates. Their victims are their
classmates and they're often their bullies....
Mandy's a great representation of all those girls
who are insecure and uncomfortable with their
sexuality and their power and yet they're
strangely intrigued by it and tempted by it."

4. OTHER EXAMPLES
Demons Never Die
 There are a group of friends who
will get murdered one by one at
some point. One girl on the
phone to her boyfriend gets
murdered at the very start in a
bedroom (typical horror film
opening).
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
 There is a very dark, mysterious
girl who has been abused all her
life by people which has made her
so a very dark, vengeful person
who can be very aggressive
(Lisabeth Salander).

5. LOCATION
 Opening shot: extreme long shot at a playground of
children playing
 Inside a toilet in school crying then kicks a door really
aggressively.
 In forest, killer following classmates into forest where
they are camping out or having a party.
 Killer follows classmates to cinema, club, house or café
where they are having so much fun and the killer waits
outside, hides until they leave/split up at night and walk
down a back alley in town. Some of the classmates are
drunk so makes them an easier target to kill; and one
isn’t because she is the only good responsible one who
doesn’t drink (final girl) but is also somewhat weak in the
fact that she doesn’t have a boyfriend.
1. School playground
2. Toilets in school
3. Under a tunnel (pedestrian
tunnel under railway) or in
town (in tunnel with graffiti
on walls).
4. Forest
5. Town, outside the cinema,
club, house/bedroom or
outside a café. Back side
alleys in town.

6. SHOTS (major shots)
Opening shot
 Children on a playground –
extreme long shot of this scene of
children on a playground. Sepia or
black and white.
 During the second ident
crib/spooky/mysterious music
starts playing with children
singing and talking on a
playground.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k
guRNaAO8oc

7. SHOT IDEAS

8. CASTING (CHARACTERS)
Characters
 Female killer (Electra)
 Children from playground aged 7-
8 (young Electra included).
 Group of friends (Electra’s
classmates): Nick, Ellie, Naomi,
Jedd and Kate
Actors
 Evie Gibbons
 Roxy, ??
 Richard Dannenberg, Orla Hogan

9. MISE-EN-SCENE
(COSTUMES/PROPS)
Killer: leather boots and leather jacket, fishnet tights or
stockings. You won’t see her face you would just see
her legs walking down a street at night or into a forest.
With a knife behind her back.
Group of 5 friends: the girls are wearing scream queen
clothes two have boyfriends one doesn’t. (the one who
doesn’t is the final girl).

10. Electra’s character mise-en-scene