After losing her grip on reality, a mentally disturbed 17-year-old British girl named Violet is haunted by frightening hallucinations. As her hallucinations get worse, Violet must confront her fears and fight to maintain her sanity, with the help of her supportive father Dale. However, Violet's psychological state starts to negatively impact those around her as her hallucinations spread and threaten to hurt others.

1. Group 1B: Alex S, Alex E, Raagavi

2. Film Idea
• Genre: Horror
• Sub-genre: Supernatural/ Psychological
• Target Audience – 16-24 M/F
• Secondary Audience – (Sub)Genre fans
• Certification: 15

3. Logline:
After losing her sense of reality, a mentally disturbed British girl is forced to confront
her fears, which in turn become more frightening than she could ever imagine.
Synopsis:
Violet, a psychologically disturbed girl living in the outskirts of London is constantly
haunted by her thoughts that have formed a life of their own. After losing her
perception of what is real and what isn’t, she is forced to rebel against her own mind.
The manifestation of her thoughts become something much larger than what she
can handle. Her father, Dale, wants to help his daughter as much as he can but she
has a hard time accepting his help as she believes he is in fact plotting against her.
Will she be able to put an end to it or will her thoughts spread like wildfire and hurt
everyone around her?

4. Research
Why Hurting?
Common themes for horror titles:
• Very literal: 'Haunting In Connecticut' 'One Missed Call' 'Evil Dead'
• Focused on an object/person: 'The Ring' 'The Uninvited' 'The Others'
• One word: 'Sinister' 'Psycho' 'Priest'
Choices: Hurting Sad Eyes After Dark The Disturbed

5. Institutions
Produced by Dark Figure Productions
• Independent UK production company specialising in low budget horror.
Distributed by
• Distributes many horror films successfully (e.g. Texas Chainsaw, Saw
films, Silent Hill )
• Familiar with audience expectations for horror genre.
• Able to distribute in the UK, North America, France and Australia.

6. Representation of Social Groups
• Building on female gender stereotypes: Our main character isn't the typical
'innocent' victim. She is vulnerable, but also psychologically disturbed.
• She relies on her father to give her support, but is otherwise independent and
the narrative focuses on her struggle. This tackles the stereotype of women
having ‘minor’ roles in films.
• Challenging racial stereotypes and going against the conventional white
blonde horror victim.
Rose Da Silva, the protagonist in Silent Hill Our main actor - Raagavi
–a conventional horror victim

7. Opening Sequence: Style and Form
• Violet is initially the victim, but she evolves and
mentally fights her possession.
• The opening will be tense and enigmatic to grab
the audience's attention straight away.
• We will use a conventional horror 'haunted house'
as the location.
• It will have an eerie atmosphere and incorporate a
voyeuristic filming style.
Our chosen
location for the
shoot – Alex E’s
house.

8. Research

9. How will it attract the Target Audience?
It will:
• Shock
• Create suspense
• Create a sense of danger - the girl is home alone
and strange things happen around the house
• Make use of conventional horror sounds
• Use a shaky, chaotic filming style
• The main character herself will appeal to the target audience a lot, as she
is vulnerable but brave.

10. Film Making Techniques & Technologies
• Continuity throughout the clip (set-ups)
• We will use a 'fish eye lens' effect in one of our shots
• Voyeuristic filming style to suggest that something is in the house with
her
• Real-time with a few exceptions
An example of
the fish eye Voyeuristic
lens effect. filming

11. Drawing on Previous Work
• We will apply the principles of continuity
editing which we learnt last term
• Use of Adobe Premiere Pro software-
experience through practice
• Applying and building
on Horror genre
conventions
• Use of Todorov's
narrative theory and
Propp's character roles

12. Role Our film
Hero Violet
Dispatcher Violet’s sanity
Helper Dad (Dale)
Villain Violet’s insanity
Princess Redeems her sanity
False Hero Violet’s insanity
Donor Dad
Levi Strauss – Binary Opposites
Sanity vs. Insanity
Good vs. Evil
What’s real vs. what isn’t

13. Opening Sequence
Flow of events

14. Violet
• Age: 17
• Character role: She is the protagonist who suffers from hallucinations and
eventually loses control due to her psychological problems. While fighting
for her own sanity she must protect her family from what is possessing
her.
• Inspirations:

15. Dale (Violet’s dad)
• Age: 38
• Character Role: He supports Violet throughout her struggle and seeks
professional help for her. He is very precious to Violet and vice versa. Dale
is one of the victims that the demon pursues and he is almost killed as a
result, which makes Violet realise that it is a greater threat than she had
imagined.
• Inspirations: