This is our practice film pitch of a horror film called The Lurking which we envisioned. This practice is so that we know what to do in our final piece.

1. The LurkingProduced by Angel Duncil, ElonaWoodford and Matt Rabbitt
Production Company:Top Hat Production

3. Genre
• The genre of our film is Horror so it means that we could involve the
paranormal and the idea of becoming possessed.
• When looking at the genre we took inspiration as to how to shock/
scare the audience from various films.

4. Genre Success Influences
The woman in black posses
others ending in death
influencing our idea of Nick
Horror They move into an old house
where crimes have
previously taken place was
influenced by Sinister
In Paranormal Activity they
feel the presence of ghosts/
spirits as which influenced
the ghosts in ‘The Lurking’

5. Cast
• Nick Livingstone – Hugh Laurie
• Janey Smith – Emma Watson
• Chloe Goodard –To be confirmed through auditions
• Kate Day –To be confirmed through auditions
• Willow Barkway –To be confirmed through auditions

6. Nick Livingstone
He is going to be played by
Hugh Laurie.
Outfit Idea:
Character Overview:
• Mysterious
• Landlord of the house
• ‘Helpful’
• Dark
• Secretive
• Creepy

7. Janey Smith
She is going to be played by
EmmaWatson
Character Overview:
• Main character and
member of sorority
• Innocent
• Outgoing
• Easily persuaded Outfit Idea:

8. Chloe, Kate and Willow
Characters Overview:
• Remaining members
of sorority
• Close friends
• Young
• Vulnerable
Outfit Ideas:
Similar to Janey’s outfits

9. Setting
• Derelict old house, just about liveable
• In the outskirts of Louisiana
• Old fashioned house
• Always has a subtle burnt stench
• Isolated
• Bad weather – winter to show pathetic fallacy
• Set in 2015

10. Plot
• For sale sign is shown (very beginning).They meet the landlord of the
house (Nick) who is willing to help them move in.
• They decided to move there because they didn’t have a lot of money.

11. • As days pass by, scary things begin to occur for example, writing on
steamed mirrors, crying noise at night, subtle dragging of legs while
sleeping.

12. • A week after they have moved in, whispers wake up the girls. Chloe
who has had enough of constantly being disturbed, goes outside of
the house to try and confront whatever is causing the commotion.
She goes to the hallway (at the entrance) and the door opens and she
gets dragged out.
• Nick shows up and ‘saves’ her, keeping her in the house.

13. • During the same night, Chloe can’t go back to sleep because she was
shaken up/scared by the ‘dragging’ event. Her feet drag her
downstairs unwillingly to the basement where she finds Nick and she
immediately starts questioning him. She sees something behind him
(pile of dead bodies) and everything clicks.The screen goes black and
Chloe starts screaming.

14. • Next day, Kate is found in the bath dead and Chloe is crying with
blood on her hands attempting to clean them. She kills herself due to
guilt (but she was actually possessed).
• It turns out the ‘weird’ things happening were actually done by the
ghosts living inside the house who were old tenants.This happens in
Janey’s ‘dream’ as the ghosts come to her warning her to leave.They
were being dragged to get them out the house but she realises that
Nick was purposely trying to keep them in.
• This conclusion is further confirmed when she reads Nicks old
journal.
• Janey realises and tries to leave but realises that Willow is still in the
house. She goes back and sees Nick withWillow’s dead body.

15. Ending
• Having learnt about Nick’s past and seeing what he has done to her
friends, Janey decides to burn the house down in order for the
recurring cycle of murders to stop – to make them (the girls) the last
tenants of the house. But she has to sacrifice herself to do this and
she does.
• The camera zooms into the fire/flames and the screen turns black.

16. Nick’s motives
• The house that the girls live in was actually burnt down in 1957. It was
Nick’s family home and his whole family died in the fire, except him.
He does everything he can to rebuild the house and he manages to
do so but this doesn’t make him feel better as he is traumatised and
becomes extremely lonely. He overdoses and dies two years later. He
wants others to now feel his pain.
• Creates 5 stage narrative analysing as the house ends they way it
started before Nick died (Equilibrium).

17. Film Language
• Mise en Scene
• Most scenes - low lighting
• High lighting at start on Nick to emphasise his importance.
• Darkness
• Nick wears dark clothing to mirror his personality and also old
fashioned to show that he is someone from the past (been dead
long time)
• Girly bright outfits for girls – binary opposites (contrasting with
to emphasise their youth

18. Film Language
• Sound
• A combination of diegetic and non-diegetic sound
• Violins – classical music
• Rhythm speeds up whenever something is about to be revealed
Chloe wandering around the house until she finds Nick in the
basement) and then slows down
• Nursery rhymes (to accompany the crying sound of babies as
a family of dead ghosts – previous tenants)

19. Editing
• For the scene where Chloe starts screaming in the basement – the
screen goes black and only her screaming can be heard for a few
seconds then next scene.
• Most scenes are going to occur at night time (therefore we could
number each night like ‘Night One, NightTwo’ etc. to show or we
could also emphasise this point by the use of clothing so different
pyjamas every night, different hair styles)

20. Marketing
• Youtube – link to trailer (banner)
• Advertised onTV after American Horror Story – same genre
• Posters at cinema/bus etc
• Release a ‘ghost’ video that looks real – target is for it to cause
controversy worldwide and become viral then reveal after that it was
actually a marketing campaign for the movie.This would make the
public curious about the movie.

22. Audience
• The target audience for this film is people in their 20’s who are carefree
workers.The people that this film is marketed for are part of the main
audience for most cinemas, therefore meaning that we would be more
likely to receive higher grossing figures at the box office.
• So that a larger amount of people would be able to see it we would release
this film in around the Summer time as this is when people take their
holiday off work so are going to have free time to come and see it.
• Also as our target audience are all over 15 it means that they will all still be
able to watch it even with the 15 rating due to the scenes of a scary and
violent nature.

23. Enigma Codes
• Throughout this film we want the audience to be asking questions
that are revealed at the end in order to keep them gripped and
watching until the end.
• So we would want them to be asking, “Why does Nick wantal them
dead?” and “Why are these things happening to them?”
• This also inserts mystery and suspicion into the film as it leaves the
audience guessing.