This document outlines a pitch for a psychological horror short film about a home invasion. The protagonist notices an unknown figure following them home and hurries inside, only to discover their back door open and the intruder hiding in their room. The pitch aims to heighten fear and mystery by keeping the antagonist hidden and never showing how they entered the home. Key elements include quickly introducing the main character, violence occurring after the invasion, and the antagonist remaining masked and their motives unknown.

1. ASSIGNMENT 26:INDIVIDUAL
PITCH
Toby Prichard

2. HOME INVASION
(PSYCHOLOGICAL/KILLER)
• I have chosen to base my idea off this subgenre because I feel it’s a far
more relatable subgenre for the everyday person which heightens the
fear factor. I also feel it’s a very underrated horror subgenre.

3. 5 MOVIES OF THE SAME GENRE
The Strangers You’re Next Inside The CollectorHush

4. CONVENTIONS
• Introduced to main characters quickly, problems occur right after
invasion happens.
• The invading antagonist dies at the end and the family resumes their life
or begins a new one.
• There is usually quite a lot of violence and blood/gore.
• The protagonists are usually a family or group of friends
• Antagonist is usually masked or fully clothed to mask identity

5. CONVENTIONS (PICTURES)

6. MY PITCH
• Shows protagonist walking home down a street at night/evening
• They notice a figure in the peripheral vision and they begin running
• They get to their front door and opening it quickly hurrying inside slamming it
• They close and lock the door only to turn around and see their back door is open
• The light to the room with the back door turns off and a picture falls off the room
• The protagonist startled runs up the stairs and into their room
• A quick shot of the door opening showing the room in near darkness
• A shot of them locking multiple locks (3/4/5)
• Once the locks are secured an shot of the protagonist (chest up) which blurs slightly to
reveal the figure standing in the corner of the room hidden from the protagonist

7. HOW WILL I MEET CONVENTIONS
• Ill meet the convention that things only get bad after the invasion actually
happens.
• The convention of the antagonists identity will be upheld by keeping them
covered up in black
• How it’ll be different.
• Ill be keeping it unique by never actually showing the antagonist entering
the house or even moving at all
• It’ll also only use 2 actors which I have not seen often

8. NARRATIVE ENIGMAS
• Who is the protagonist
• Why has the antagonist chosen them to victimize
• How did the antagonist know where their victim lives
• How did get to the house first and hide before the victim
• who is the antagonist and why are they doing what they’re doing

9. MAIN TARGETS
• I want to really show the locks on the final scene to show the audience
how the protagonist has accidentally locked themselves in with the
protagonist.
• Another target is to keep the protagonist as covered as possible in black
clothing to keep it a mystery.
• Getting the right street is important to the setting as I want it to be
appropriate (lighting, size, area)
• Capturing the protagonists fear and then their feeling of relief would be
very good