2. Idea Summary
After an unexplained murder of Detective Hunter's
son, Ethan, occurs during Ethan, Laura (his girlfriend)
and his friends' group camp-out, he must take things
into his own hands and find out what involvement his
son had in this conspiracy. By talking to each friend who
was there at the scene of the crime he begins to put the
missing pieces together, as well as beginning to
understand more about his son than he had originally
planned.
3. Group Roles
The roles in our group, for what each persons main
focus will be are as follows:
Kirsty: Director and Editor
Shannon: Costume and Propp design and Co-Director
Leo: Cameraman and Co - Director
4. Characters
Detective Alex Hunter
Alex is middle aged detective inspector who has a
comfortable life with a good income and lives at home
with his son, Ethan, in a nice and friendly neighbourhood.
He is divorced from Ethan’s mother and they live
separately but their son sees them both frequently so he
believes Ethan still has the sense of family.
However by him having his particular job, it makes
Alex, who has a seemingly good lifestyle, have to work
around his murdered son which allows the character to
develop from a friendly, laid back character into an
obsessive father who’s life now revolves around finding
out how his son was killed.
As Alex starts to find out secrets about his son’s dark
double life, it makes him start to question and blame
himself. Did his divorce with Ethan’s mother trigger his
rebellion? If he had tried to work it out, would Ethan still
be the good son he once remembered?
Ultimately he wants to find out what happened to his
deceased son, but the more he discovers about his
child, the more he begins to regret the decision.
5.
Characters
Ethan Hunter
The character of Ethan creates the controversy
and, ultimately, the dark theme that surrounds the story.
Throughout his life he has gotten everything he has
wanted because his family has never struggled in anyway.
That is until his parent’s divorce. As his mother had to
move away from the town and his father’s work meant he
was constantly busy, he turned to being rebellious to try
and go against his family.
He is a very forward, arrogant character however he has
a certain charm about him which means he is always seen
as the leader and is very popular with people, especially
with the opposite sex.
Ethan’s strive to be bad and go against everything his
father works for is meant to benefit him. He starts to get
involved with an anonymous, dangerous stranger who
makes him deal with such crime as drugs and assault he
believes his father’s ignorance to what he is delving in
means he has the upper hand as he as all the knowledge.
However this all changed after it went the opposite way
for Ethan after he took his obsession with competing with
his father a step too far.
6. Characters
Laura Hackett
Laura is a kind, mature and respectable girl who clearly knows
right and wrong. Yet she liked the security she felt Ethan brought
when they first started their relationship and thought he was
misunderstood. However the longer their relationship
continued, the more Laura started to find out about Ethan’s
secrets but because of her ties to Ethan, she feels like she can’t
betray him even though she knows what he is doing is wrong.
Laura comes across as quite a shy, understated person and this is
due to the control Ethan has over her and the need to always be
dominant over everyone else so over time she has become
insecure with herself and is expected to support Ethan in
everything he does.
Her role is vital within the film as she has all the key answers
that would explain Ethan’s murder but is scared to betray her
dead boyfriend and furthermore is terrified about her own safety
as she may have an idea of who committed her boyfriend’s
crime.
7. Characters
Close group of friends
This will consist of four more people, two girls
and two boys which are all in the dark about the
worse of Ethan’s secrets. They all know Ethan
isn’t exactly good as he has openly admitted to
taking drugs and even does drugs in front of
them, in fact they are all quite scared of him.
Yet they all know minor details towards why he
may have gone down a different path to what
his father wanted him to be. Individually they
each have small pieces of information they can
share with his father that may help towards
finding out why he was murdered which they are
happier to share individually as they don’t feel
like they’re betraying their dead friend.
Overall they act as the people Detective Hunter
can refer to if he needs any indications about
his son.
8. Locations
The majority of scenes will be taken in the woods (as the teenagers
are predominantly out during a camp-out) which can be achieved in
many surrounding woodland areas around Dunstable and our local
area. There will however still be some scenes shot in a small
suburban town (for the scenes with the detective and the more
investigative approach), which can also be achieved in numerous
local areas in Bedfordshire.
9. Costume
Detective Alex Hunter – His outfits will mainly
consist of grey and brown suits to show the
professional status he obtains. However his
appearance will change from smart and
presentable at the beginning of the film to a
scruffier one (e.g. shirt un-tucked, stains on
clothes etc.) to connote how the task of
solving his son’s murder and the double life he
finds out about has taken its toll on the
character.
Ethan Hunter – Ethan will wear mostly dark
clothes to connote his more cynical outlook on
life and the bad things he partakes in. The
clothes he will wear will be mostly casual e.g.
leather jacket, t shirt, jeans, trainers and a
beanie to show he still fits in with the laidback
teenage lifestyle, even though he’s living two
different lives.
10. Laura Hackett- The character of Laura
will always have some sort of white
garment on to connote her goodness
and purity that will contrast with
Ethan’s darkness. Her clothes will still
be casual so she fits in with the crowd
e.g. casual t shirts, hoodie however
she will not wear anything even the
slightest bit revealing (for example a
top that may show off her figure) as
this will display the control that Ethan
has over her.
Close group of friends- Their costumes
will consist of mainly chequered
shirts, casual shoes and shirts with a
range of different colours to display
that they are ordinary compared to
the other three major characters.
11. Props
Props
To show that the film still
revolves around a group of
teenagers l, such props like
phones, bags and packets of
unhealthy food will be present.
In the camp scene props like tent
bags, blankets and hats will be
incorporated to add to the mise
en scene and allow the audience
to identify the scene more easily.
Lastly to create the darker
thriller aspect, alcohol and drugs
will be involved to connote the
darker element substances can
create within a person and
knives will be used to create the
danger and suspense within the
film.
12. Soundtrack
The soundtrack for our opening sequence will include
following track as well as some dialogue and diegetic
sound.
‘Zero – Smashing
Pumpkins’
13. Soundtrack
The soundtrack was chose, because it relates to what
our target audience like to listen to (Alternative/Indie
rock) and the feeling it portrays is quite eerie and dark
which fits with the feeling of our plot. It portrays this
feeling because of the harsh vocals and the distorted
guitar that is in a minor key.
14. Effects
We don’t plan to use very many effects in our opening
sequence, as we don’t want too much going on and for
it too be too complex. The effects we are using though
are as follows:
- Post production Lighting effects (Day – Night).
- Slow motion.
- Title effects.
15. Effects
We intend to use these effects because they fit the
mise-en-scene and will create certain feelings. For
example, the lighting effect will be used, because part
of our opening scene is set at night, and we plan to film
during the day. By applying the effect we can simply
change this. Another example of how a feeling can be
portrayed through the effects we have chosen is slow
motion. We will be using this to create suspense, for
example when Ethan’s Dad gets the phone call from the
police that his son has been killed.
