2. Plot
• Raven wakes up mental institution
remembering only her first name and the
haunting image of her best friend’s dead body.
With the ghost of her best friend haunting her,
blaming her for her death – Raven, with the
help of her new friend, works to prove her
innocence, find out what really happened to
her best friend, regain her memories and
battle her inner demons.
3. Themes
In the opening sequence:
• Insanity vs. Sanity – is Raven insane?
Throughout the main plotline:
• Mystery – is Sienna dead and if so who really
killed her.
• Crime – the murder and the investigation into
it.
4. Raven
16 years old and
is a student.
She is accused
of the death of
her best friend
Sienna.
All she knows
she is that she
is innocent and
her name is
Raven.
She wakes up in
the mental
institution and
doesn’t
remember
anything.
She is haunted
by the ghost of
her best friend
who blames her
for her death.
5. Sienna 16 years old, a
student.
She is murdered
whilst walking
with Raven.
Her ghost
haunts Raven’s
mind, blaming
her for her
murder.
She is an
innocent
character.
Could be a
hallucination of
Raven’s from
guilt.
6. The Guards
Ages unknown.
Quite irrelevant.
Restrain and sedate
Raven when she
tries to escape and
starts screaming
Tries to keep Raven
in her room no
matter what.
7. Hunter
17 years old
Also an inmate in
the institution.
In there because
he has
Schizophrenia.
Helps Raven
escape and figure
out the truth.
Plays a large part
in the main
narrative but may
not be in the
opening sequence.
8. Settings
• Mental Institute room – white, pristine, cold,
empty, lifeless.
• Park – gloomy, cloudy, empty.
9. Costume
Raven –
• Jeans and a jumper
• Grey or Black jumper/t-shirt and
leggings/tracksuit bottoms
Sienna –
• Jeans and a t-shirt
• Shredded versions of what she was wearing
Guards –
• Uniform?
• Black clothes?
10. Props
• Fake blood
• Shredded costume
• Fake needle
• Various forms of make-up
• Guns
• Police lights (if possible)
11. Sounds
• Screams
• Police Sirens
• Dialogue
• Background track
Possible background tracks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7S_JYnacfk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvFEzFyzw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpU_ex92jS
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12. Technical Features/ Camera
Angles
• Focus Pulls – To go in and out of a dazed state
• Eye Line Match – To show the height difference
between Raven and the guards.
• High Angled Shot – Weakness and
vulnerability
• Low Angled Shot – Strength and power
• Extreme Close Ups – Emotion in the eyes
• Jump Cut – Ghostly movements
• Match On Action – Attack?
