This document provides stock characters, settings, narrative elements, and iconography for a film about a seemingly happy married couple where the husband is secretly a serial killer. The husband is played by Tom Cruise and the wife by Jennifer Aniston. The film is aimed at audiences ages 15-35, especially women who enjoy thrillers and action. It will have elements of mystery, murder, and suspense as the wife discovers her husband's dark secret and works to uncover if she will become his next victim.

2. Stock Characters: Stock setting:
Husband House (bedroom and
Wife kitchen)
Victim
Police
Narrative: Iconography:
Everyday life Phone
Loving relationship Log book
Murder Wedding rings
Kidnap The couples house and
Mystery to who it is room
Unusual suspects

3. In time
Mission impossible
The thing
The debt
Cowboys and Aliens
Tinker Tailor Soldier spy

4. Husband: Simon Matthews-32 and played
by tom cruise
Wife: Lisa Matthews-28 and played by
Jennifer Aniston
Previous victims names:
Ria Mcloughlin, Jordan Pereira,
Emma Adams, Danielle Cella,
Michael Smith, David Thomas,
Chris Allison

5. What kind of film goers will see our film in
the cinema?
o Ages: 15 to 35
o Mostly women who enjoy
watching thrillers and action
o Couples

6. Romantic – Titanic, Killers, Date night
Action - Killers, Date night, Mr. and
Mrs. Smith, Super 8 and Out of Sight

8.  Big budget as its staring:
Tom Cruise and Sandra Bullock

9. o Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
o Universal Studios

10. - Man and Woman are happily
married
- But the husband Simon is hiding a
dark secret from his wife Lisa
- He is a serial killer and has the
details of every victim in his log
book.
- He is planning his next victims
death but his wife nearly catches
him when she sees a message come
up on his phone about it

11. - He catches her just in time but pushes
his wife away showing his first signs of
violence towards her.
- From this moment on things start to
change.
- Will she be another one of his victims?
Or will she discover his secret before its
too late

12. -Over shoulder shot of hand writing
in log book, dark room with only a
lamp
- The door opens so light comes on
-Women’s voice saying breakfast is
ready
- Book slams shut, as the noise of the
book slams it goes back to the
flashback of the two hands(wedding
rings)

13. - Fade to white, rose petals on the
bed, man carrying the wife in a
drops her on the bed, the petals then
go up in the air and dissolves into
present day.
- Camera is on book, pan to the
phone, clear message comes up with
name and how