this is a list of everything i have planned for a short film i am doing for AS media

1. The White Man – film by Michael Byrne
1. Plot/narrative (brief summary)
 Running through woods
 Parkour
 Finding the truth
 Research into characters
 Murder
 Disappearances
 Find items
2. Characters
 Teenagers
 Middle aged man in a hunting outfit
 1 cop
 1 FBI agent
 Slender-man!!!! (make different name – the white man)
3. Mise en scene
 Dark woods
 Night time
 Light and dark clothes
 Hidden objects
 Masks
 Torch
 Cabin in the woods
 Dark lighting
 Dark colours
 Fog/mist

2. 4. Representation
 Males
 Ages 17-19
5. Codes and conventions of thriller genre
 Battle between protagonist (good) and antagonist (bad)
 Low key lighting
 Quick cuts
 Shadows
 Tension music
 Changes in the angle of shots
 Black and white shots
 Montage of shots
 Diegetic sound of breathing
6. Links to real media products/production companies
 Bourne identity/supremacy/ultimatum (film)
 Taken 1/2/3 (film)
 Nightmare on elm street (film)
 Halloween (film)
 Cabin in the woods (film)
 Wicker man (film)
 Slender the 8 pages (game)
 Slender man (2013 film)
 The tall man (2012 film)
7. Codes and conventions of title sequences


3. 8. Links to key theories
 Todorov’s narrative theory
9. Target audience
 Fans of thrillers
 15 + age range
Who? – Slender man (The White Man), cops, children, FBI,
teenagers,
What? – Disappearances, cop investigates disappearances, cop finds
items, cop finds a cabin, enters cabin with items, doesn’t find
anything about the disappearances or anything suspicious, finds
pages on the walls about something, leaves, doesn’t look back at
cabin, goes back to station, cold case, returns home to wife and kid,
cop disappears in his sleep, wife and kid notice cop missing reports
in, figure still out there, disappearances keep happening, no one can
sort it, the end.
Or
Disappearances, cop investigates disappearances, cop finds items,
cop finds a cabin, enters cabin with items, finds suspicious pages,
sees a figure outside, pulls out gun, shoots, figure teleports away,
cop runs to car, gets in car, drives off, figure stops car and teleports
to the cop, cop disappears from car, figure disappears and stays
hidden, figure still out there killing and making people disappear,
cops don’t find anything, everyone lives in fear, the end.

4. When? – Night time, day time, evening, afternoon, morning,
summer, spring, autumn, winter.
Where? – In the woods, in a cabin, police station, house, car.
Why? – Characters were out for a run? , walked a pet, met a friend,
party? , part of their job, investigation, dare? , collecting firewood.
How? –
Synopsis –
Teenagers go into woods to collect firewood climbs over a fence and
figure in black appears behind them without them noticing, the
teenagers turn away from each other then they turn back and find
that the others have disappeared, the last teenager runs to get out
of the woods but then suddenly disappears, fade to black, fade to
missing posters on lamp posts, cop talks to parents and travels to
investigate woods, figure appears behind car without cop noticing
and then filming stops.
Cast –
The white man – Keenan Waters?
Teenager 1 – Michael Byrne
Teenager 2 – Keenan Waters?
Teenager 3 – Reinhart Malte
Cop/FBI – Tommy Bowden

5. Editor & director –
Michael Byrne
Mise en scene –
Dark wooded area with a cottage or a destroyed building with a
fenced area, a road or path for a vehicle (optional), dark coloured
clothing for the white man and bright clothing for protagonists,
pages of paper with drawings on them, backpacks (optional),
baskets, piles of wood,
Equipment list –
 Camera
 Tripod
 Batteries
 Wood
 Car/bike (optional)
 Paper
 Pens
 Baskets/Bags
 White morph suit mask & white gloves (gloves are optional)
 Hoodie & jeans for white man
 Police tape
 Traffic cones
Locations list –
 Bicclescombe woods
 Combe martin woods