This document summarizes the plot development and initial ideas for a film about a woman named Sienna dealing with schizophrenia. The film will focus on Sienna's mental health struggles and her belief that she is being stalked by a masked figure. It is unclear whether the stalker is real or a hallucination caused by her schizophrenia. This element of uncertainty and the "unknown" is meant to keep the audience engaged. The document discusses using themes of stalking, mental health issues, and alcohol dependency to make the film more realistic and give it a unique selling point compared to other horror films.
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2. Brainstorming some possible storylines…
Ideas
Kidnap / Abduction
Torture
Murder
Mental Health
Supernatural
Revenge
The unknown
After careful consideration and messing around with lots of
different ideas I decided to incorporate the idea of stalking,
mental health and the unknown.
Stalking
Imprisonment
Zombies
Accidental death
Natural disasters
Slasher
Disease
3. Initial ideas
When it came to deciding upon an original storyline for my film I knew it
was going to base around mental health. This is a very personal subject to
me and I want to inform the audience just how severe mental health can
be and how is can affect someone's life for the worse and how it’s possible
for you to lose control.
Sienna is coming to terms with her recent schizophrenia diagnosis. She
begins hallucinating and hearing bizarre noises and everyone around her
attributes this to her mental health. She tries incredibly hard to convince her
loved ones she is being harassed and when they don’t believe her they
demand she gets sectioned under the mental health act.
The stalking and idea of the unknown intertwine within my narrative. My
protagonist, Sienna, is convinced she is being stalked and when abnormal
things begin to happen to her she sets out to uncover the truth and gets
stopped in her path. Whereas her friends and family attribute this to her
schizophrenia. This is where the aspect of the unknown creeps in, the
audience are in the same boat as Sienna, neither know if she really is being
targeted or is she losing her grip on reality and losing the battle with mental
health?
4. Aside from the schizophrenia the other major attribute to my film is the ‘masked
stalker’, throughout the film it’s unclear to Sienna and the audience whether
this is a real person or just an hallucination. I’m trying to keep my film intriguing
and the fact the protagonist and the viewers have to come up with their own
conclusion as to whether the masked stalker is real or just a work of fiction
keeps them captivated and keeps the narrative fresh and incising.
The element of being stalked relates heavily to the horror genre, this act of
insanity represents ultimate fear and distress. I decided to follow this theme
because it can lead down many roads and allow me to be creative with my
decision making. I decided the stalker would always be wearing a mask, this
hides their true identity and links in with the convention of the unknown.
Keeping their face covered with a mask stops Sienna and the audience
figuring out who is pestering her. I’m unsure yet just how far the masked stalker
will push Sienna however I can reveal that they will play a huge role in the
overall plot of my film.
At this stage of the planning I haven't decided on what the mask will look like
yet, I will list a few suggestions and put it to my target audience through my
focus group and questionnaire, and see what’s the most popular with them.
The input of my target audience is very important to me, after all they are the
ones who will be watching my film.
5. Unique selling point
From very early on I had two original ideas for my film’s unique selling point. I hope to
incorporate the harshness of mental health and the recurring use of alcohol, both of
these factors affect members the human population, this in turn represents realism.
Mental health
The majority of horror films centre around the supernatural and strange
occurrences. As an audience, they know roughly what is causing this chaos,
whereas with mental heath they can never be sure which way things can go. It’s
very rare for a horror film to base their narrative on the issues of a mental illness
and I believe I can portray this subject tactfully and efficiently.
Alcohol
It’s important for the unique selling point to be a memorable aspect of the
narrative. In my film alcohol dependency plays a huge role in Sienna’s life. It’s
unusual for someone in a horror film to always have a drink in their reach because
they are usually trying to escape a form of torment. However I hope to challenge
this and show that although Sienna believes alcohol may help her it really makes
matters a lot worse.
