'Sleep Well' pitch

1. 'Sleep Well' Pitch
Louis and James

2. Working Title: Sleep Well
Genre: Horror
Inspirations:
• Halloween
• The Ring
Audience:
Usually, the target audience for a horror film is male between 15-25, as younger
audiences enjoy the thrills
Primary audience: 16 - 30-year-old male audience
Secondary audience: 31 - 45-year-old female and male audience
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The idea (characters)

3. Description
Opens on shot of news article being held by unknown man, stating it is 1 year
since the murder of Mia Reed and Cole Andrews is leading suspect. Then
flashback to the killing of the girl (Andrew and female watching movie for
intertextual reference, then flirtatious behavior begins and cuts to them after
clearly having sex. Male character goes to clean his teeth and hears Mia scream
and runs back into the room to see her scream at the sound of a phone
notification. Then he laughs and leaves to the bathroom again and then hears her
scream again so walks back and sees her lying on the floor dead, with ‘the ring’
style character standing over). Then cuts back to present day, and finally reveals
who the man is that is holding the newspaper (being the same man that was
thought to have killed his girlfriend), then shows him clearly alone and
drinking quite a bit of alcohol and throughout this ending, having lots of flashbacks
to him freaking out after finding his girlfriend dead. Then ends with him seeing this
ring styled figure in present day.

4. Characters (Cole Andrews)
Cole Andrews
17-year-old
White male
Stereotype (short hair, skinny)
Countertypical as you would expect the male to be the hero, but ends up doing
nothing)
Different versions of him
Past: Dressed in black joggers + oversized t-shirt, no shoes (to show relaxed
state) neat short hair (possibly brushed back or to the side) - middle-class. After
intimacy - just wearing underwear with same t-shirt from earlier, messy hair to
clearly connote what has just happened.
Present: possibly dressed in a suit but looks all scruffy (possibly connoting he may
have just lost his job) + scruffy hair

5. Characters (Mia Reed)
Mia Reed
17-year-old
At boyfriend's house
White female (stereotypical blond white girl – easy to scare and slightly pathetic)
Dressed in cosy clothing (grey joggers and grey sweatshirt as she is just watching
a movie with her boyfriend and isn't dressing up)

6. Characters (Creepy girl)
Creepy girl
Other PowerPoint made on her character

7. Techniques used
Narrative enigma - we will leave the identity of the man holding the newspaper as a mystery
until towards the end + setting in unknown until towards the end
Intertextual reference (scene where couple are watching 'Halloween')
Propp:
The villain – the girl seen that clearly murders the girl
The hero – not shown as a hero in the opening but if the film was to continue, he would be
the character to save himself

8. Techniques used
Todorov's narrative structure:
• Equilibrium – couple are watching a movie and relaxed
• Disruption – Mia gets killed
• Recognition – Cole walks in and finds her dead
• Attempt to repair – Later on there will be flashbacks to him running around trying to find
something to repair it
• No new equilibrium reached as its only the opening therefore we want to leave it on a
cliffhanger

9. Location ideas
Present takes place outside
First, man is sitting at bench reading newspaper
Later when it cuts to this man in present, he is walking down a dark path,
surrounded by trees
Perfect area near (Louis') house
Past takes place inside house
The males house
Easy to film at one of our houses
(images and footage of areas will be added)

10. Influences
• Friday the 13th
• Psycho
• Halloween
• Alien
• A quiet place
• It
• Jaws
(analysis on film openings on separate blogs)