1. Film Pitch for Thriller Film Titles Project
Title of Thriller Film
This should conform to conventional
titles and be fitting for your work.
Lilith’s possessions
Genre incl. Subgenre (where
appropriate)
Horror may be the overall genre but
have you added a sub-genre or is has
it be hybridised with another
separate genre altogether?
Psychological thriller
Log Line
1-2 sentence description of your
concept; descriptive.
‘The ring’ inspired with a twist of ‘The Grudge’. ‘Lilith’s
possessions’ is a psychological thriller which focuses on a girl
called Maria who becomes involved in her father’s job when he
suddenly passes away (by looking at his confidential files). Maria
attempts to continue his work by digging up unsolved cases
from the past, she begins to realise what she loves may end up
killing her.
Synopsis
Content should be roughly 3 detailed
paragraphs outlining the content of
the film from beginning to end. Be
specific and don’t been ominous
about the ending. Even though
you’re doing the titles only, you
should have a whole narrative
planned out.
Maria begins to mourn over the loss of her Dad and
stumbles upon a cabinet full of files from his job.
Maria opens a file titled ‘Case 13:18’ (which in the
Book of revelations mentions an unholy beast).
She carefully examines the file, reading word-by-
word; everything mentioned on the papers and
becomes shocked at what she finds.
The file says about a young girl named Lilith who
continuously ran away from her family home due to
her parents not believing that she was seeing
mysterious figures.
Maria becomes intrigued in this mystery and
arranges with her friends the following day to travel
to the abandoned location that Lilith began her new
life to find clues of how she had passed away.
Maria and her friends stumble upon a box which
Lilith had stored her secrets in. Her diary,
photographs and drawings.
I altered the genre of my film pitch,
as previously this document had
stated that this was a pitch for a
horror film.
Another improvement I made to my
film pitch was changing ‘As she
continues to dig up clues from the
past’. I decided to make this
alteration as for Maria just to dig up
clues from the past did not make
sense, by Maria continuing her
father’s work, this shows that she is
intrigued and also misses her father.
In addition,I
have also
included
more
expressions
and
emotionsof
characters
withinmy
filmpitch.
Thisis as it
allowsthe
readerto
understand
the plotand
characters
more easily
without
knowingor
seeingthe
full
narrative.
2. Before Maria’s friends could see, she pockets the
diary leaving only the photographs and drawings.
Maria’s friends begin to laugh about how psychotic
and delusional Lilith was and begin to take pictures
of Lilith’s possessions, rip and tear them apart.
Later that night, Maria reads Lilith’s diary
Lilith begins to appear in places that Maria is in as
well as her friends.
Lilith tries to break the curse or appearance of Maria
by contacting her parents and finding out more
about her.
After continuing to research this file, Maria finds out
that Lilith is Maria’s half-sister.
Resources needed
Camcorder
Tripod
Box
Diary
Photographs
Drawings
Files
Filing cabinet
Locations
Abandoned house
Abandoned street
Houses
Alley
Park
Characters
Maria
2 x ‘friends’
Lilith
Justification for your ideas – You need to explain how your ideas link to the genre, task and also your
target audience.
My trailer would follow a conventional thriller trailer as in the beginning, everything appears to be
normal however, as the trailer continues the narrative would bring more tension and would create a
dramatic climax. I would address my target audience by including characters of a similar age, this way
the audience can relate and identify with a character in my trailer.
The feedback that I received
on this part of my film pitch
was extremely helpful. I was
given advice to have the
narrative of Lilith having
something to do with Maria’s
Dad. Due to being advised to
include something like this, I
decided for Maria and Lilith
to be half-sisters. This will
add more enigma and drama
to my thriller film.
As I had stated before that Maria will
be looking at her Dad’s files, I forgot
to include the resource of a filing
cabinet.
