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The film pitch proposes a psychological thriller called "Lifeline" that follows a woman named Belle whose normal life is disrupted by a stalker. As she investigates further, Belle discovers there is another person manipulating timelines and causing bad things to happen to her and other victims. Belle works to prove an innocent man's alibi and track down the real antagonist threatening her life. In the end, Belle and other victims destroy the antagonist's evidence and timelines, restoring a new sense of equilibrium. The film would feature everyday locations like houses and streets that take on increased significance as the plot develops.
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Magazine ideas
The document provides background stories for 16 different creepypasta characters that could be featured in a horror magazine. It discusses plans to feature Eyeless Jack prominently on the cover and in a double page story. The target audience is described as ages 16-29, with social/psychographic profiles of C1, C2, D classes who enjoy thrill-seeking. The cover will feature Eyeless Jack along with 4 other characters and include visual elements like splattered blood to set the horror tone. The magazine will also have an interactive digital version. It then provides 3 sample stories for the characters Eyeless Jack, Sally and Clockwork to give a sense of the creepy tales that may be included.
Planningmytext final draft
A horror/thriller film trailer is outlined that tells the story from the killer's point of view. The main character, Madeleine Blackwell, chases her dog into an abandoned church where she becomes possessed by a mysterious shadow. She begins having blackouts and nightmares that may be more than just dreams. As her frenzied states start, she kills her family and friends with no memory of what happens. Her sister helps keep her secret but also meets her demise. The narrative explores whether Madeleine's violent acts are truly her own or being committed by the demon that possesses her.
Planningmytext final draft
The document outlines plans for a horror/thriller film trailer from the killer's point of view. It proposes following a character named Madeleine Blackwell who is possessed after chasing her dog into an abandoned church. She begins having blackouts and nightmares where she kills her family and friends, with no memory of what happens. Her sister Amy tries to help keep her secret but is ultimately killed as well. The document discusses title ideas, characters, locations, costumes and props, and settles on the title "Nightmares" to portray the unconventional idea of seeing events through the killer's perspective.
Final Paper MEGUINES, FRANCIS
The document provides a summary and analysis of several films from the Cinema One Originals 2013 collection. It discusses key scenes and characters from the films Woman in the Ruins, Shift, and Blue Bustamante, and analyzes them using communication theories like Expectancy Violation Theory, Elaboration Likelihood Model, Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Attribution Theory, and Social Penetration Theory. It also summarizes the film "Ganito kami noon. Paano kayo ngayon?" and analyzes interpersonal relationships depicted in the film using Interpersonal Deception Theory, Social Penetration Theory, and Uncertainty Reduction Theory. Overall, the document analyzes how several communication theories can be applied to understand dynamics and relationships
Cinema one originals 2013
The document provides a summary and analysis of several films from the Cinema One Originals 2013 collection. It discusses key scenes and characters from the films Woman in the Ruins, Shift, and Blue Bustamante, applying communication theories like Expectancy Violation Theory, Elaboration Likelihood Model, Uncertainty Reduction Theory, and Attribution Theory. It also analyzes the film "Ganito kami noon. Paano kayo ngayon?" discussing how Interpersonal Deception Theory, Social Penetration Theory, and Uncertainty Reduction Theory apply. The reviewer was impressed by the film restoration and believes these old films inspire youth.
Horror Film Openings Analysis
The document provides an analysis of the openings of three horror films: Scream (1996), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and an unnamed third film. It summarizes key elements of each opening, including narrative structure, characters, settings, camerawork, sound, and how they set up conventions of the horror genre and build tension. The opening of Scream introduces the main character Casey and her threatening phone calls from an unknown man. A Nightmare on Elm Street shows the creation of Freddy Krueger's glove and his pursuit of Tina in a dream, leaving clues that the events may not be a dream. Generic conventions like isolation, curiosity, and weapons are also discussed.
Assignment 15 narrative theory
This document discusses Todorov's narrative theory and Strauss' theory of binary opposites as applied to the film Silent House. It outlines Todorov's five stages of narrative: equilibrium, disequilibrium, recognition, attempt to repair, new equilibrium. These stages are then applied to plot points in Silent House. The document also notes Strauss' belief in binary opposites providing narrative structure and includes a chart analyzing the film's use of opposites between victim and killer and how this provides climactic tension.
Cinema one originals
The document summarizes and analyzes four different movies:
1) Blue Bustamante - About a man who moves to Japan for work but struggles to find a job and ends up taking an acting role which becomes successful.
2) Kabisera - About a man who finds illegal drugs and is convinced by his friend to sell them, which leads to relationship issues.
3) Shift - An unusual love story between a gay man and a woman who work together but have an uncertain romantic relationship.
4) Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? - About a young man's adventures in the city and how his perspectives change as he faces deception, betrayal, and learns the
Documentaries conventions and iconography research
The document analyzes four documentaries: Stacey Solomon: Depression, Teen Mums & Me; Sir Trevor McDonald: Women Behind Bars; and Rachel Bruno: My Dad & Me. It discusses the likes and dislikes of each documentary's approach, the impressions created through mise-en-scene, the conventions used, and which elements the document's author wants to incorporate into their own documentary on mental health. The goal is to create a personal documentary from the perspective of someone suffering from a mental illness.
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Documentaries conventions and iconography research
Documentaries conventions and iconography research
Lifeline Pitch
- 1. Film Pitch - Lifeline Amy, Louisa, Jess and Lianne
- 2. Our Film - Lifeline • Our film bases around the usual codes and conventions for psychological thrillers, with a large emphasis on the unknown, and mental ability/disability. The overall film will follow Torodov's theory of equilibrium.
- 3. Plot • Equilibrium: Belle, the main characters normal day to day life will be shown, spending time with her boyfriend and her dog (this will also be shown in the trailer). Her life will follow a normal pattern with day to day routines and nothing extravagant happening, something which is fairly traditional within the beginning of psychological thrillers. • Disequilibrium: The less than thrilling lifestyle Belle leads will suddenly be disrupted by the main antagonist, a character who is sent on trial for stalking Belle herself, something she had no idea was going on. This will obviously have a large impact on the character, and make her feel less than safe in her own home upon seeing the evidence for the trial which consists of a makeshift timeline full of images of her over her lifetime. What Belle won't be told is that there is more than one victim in this, and many other timelines were found of other people, with no obvious link between them. During this time, everything in Belle's life will begin to disintegrate, ruining aspects of her life bit by bit. Her boyfriend will leave her, her dog gets run over, and a long list of other 'coincidences'. It will then come to light that there is someone trying to make her life turn out like this, someone else with control over timelines, who is causing all this grief in her life, and many other lives. Belle discovers this when she goes home to find her family home has been broken in to and photographs of herself have been left everywhere, but photos of all the bad things that have occurred, including an image of her at that moment in time. When she secretly goes to visit the original stalker in prison (where he is being detained until the end of the trial) he tells her everything, twisting the facts she knows on their heads as it turns out, he is a good guy. His main aim in life has been to correct everything the actual antagonist does, and to stop all these bad things happening to people. Belle's new goal is to prove him innocent, something that doesn't work, as the other guy is still at large and causing bad things to happen to her and others. It becomes clear to Belle that she needs to find him, and stop him somehow. Although everything she has to do needs to be kept secret, and never mentioned, to limit the possibility of him finding out. She enrols the help of the other victims, and together they manage to find him and cut the timelines, destroying them and his power. They take all the photographs and hide them, too afraid to destroy them. • New equilibrium: The new equilibrium will occur when Belle manages to destroy the evidence against the original antagonist for the trial, and he cannot be detained any further, as all victims do not want to press charges. With the man they've grown to understand free and the workings of the antagonist destroyed, a new order is restored, until the photographs are found in her home, rebuilt into timelines, with all the new workings out done by Belle herself.
- 4. Locations As is typical with a psychological thriller, our locations will be everyday ones, that take on a new significance as the plot develops; • Houses •Streets •Open and enclosed spaces – early in the film/trailer.
- 5. Basic Concept of Poster
- 6. Basic Concept of Magazine Cover
- 7. Storyboard