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.
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.
10. 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.
11. Soundtrack
The soundtrack for our opening sequence will include
either on of the following tracks as well as some
dialogue and diegetic sound.
‘Zero – Smashing
Pumpkins’
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
