This document outlines plans for a horror film project. It discusses choosing independent British film institutions Film London and Film 4 as examples. It proposes iconic horror director George Romero and actor Jake Gyllenhaal to portray the sinister villain. Emily Atack is suggested for the attractive blonde victim role. The plot involves a man who grows angry and puts on a mask before seeking revenge on his cheating girlfriend and friends. Musical cues and title design in red with jagged text will be used to convey the horror genre to audiences.

1. Distortion
By James Harrison and Patrick O’Hara

2. Institutions
The institutions we have chosen are film London and film 4 as these are independent
British film makers which both work on a smaller budget and even though film 4 has its
own channel it is still an independent film compared to some institutions such as
universal studios.
Film London is a small independent film based in London and has produces british
independent films such as Shifty and it uses the microwave effect where it cant spend
over a certain budget.
Film 4 has a higher budget then film london but still doesn’t have a massive budget
compared to some institutions but still produced such films as attack the block and slum
dog millionaire

3. Iconic directors/actors
Some iconic horror producers are George Romero who produced films such as
dawn of the dead another iconic film director is John Carpenter who
produced the Halloween films which is what we have kind of based our
film on.
The actors there needs to be at least a killer, a victim and a hero the victim
should be a sinister and creepy person, the typical victim should be a
blonde teenage girl and the hero should be a strong willed quite well built
man so that it fits in with our genre.

4. Character- victim
Our victim needs to be a very stereo typical victim with
blonde hair and very attractive and not very intelligent.
We think that a actress like Emily Atack would make a
good victim as she fits the stereotype for a typical victim
in a film. Having a well known and good looking victim
like Emily Atack would attract a lot of viewers. She is also
a model which will attract and influence the audience.

5. Character- villain
• The villain needs to be a fairly sinister person with dark hair and not
exactly well built but must have a sharp mind to make decisions. We have
chosen Jake Gyllenhaal as he fits our stereotypical villain idea and he has
stared in films such as Donnie darko and zodiac.

6. Plot
It is just an average day and a boyfriend is making a romantic meal for himself and
his girlfriend but when she doesn’t turn up he starts to get anxious and
worried. He go’s over to his friends house the next evening only to see his
friend with his girlfriend and a small group of friends which leads him to the
suspicions that his girlfriend is cheating on him with his friend which ignites an
anger inside him. When he arrives home from his friends house he is so angry
with everyone in that house he smashes everything that reminds him of his
girlfriend and friends until he stumbles upon a mask stashed away in the back
of a cupboard. As he puts on the mask he senses a evil happiness wearing the
mask and goes into the kitchen and picks up the knife he was using to prepare
the meal the previous night seeing it as a fitting weapon to kill his girlfriend
with. He storms back to the house and manages to sneak into the house and
to the horror of the unsuspecting friends the masked man walks in to the
living room and the characters inside the living room are shocked and startled
by the looks of their faces.………. The ending sends the audience off on a
cliffhanger ending, creating the whole aspect of suspense ultimately.

7. genre
• In our film opening we choose the horror genre and we will
convey this to the audience using a certain type of music and
sound which matches the genre and makes it flow.
we will also use a certain type of typography in the credits to
make it reflect the type of genre we are using, for example in
our opening titles we are using the colour red, which
represents blood which is iconic to the genre. We are also
using the typography in a rough, jagged found which reflects
and represents our genre to the audience.