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- 1. 'Sleep Well' Pitch Louisand James
- 2. Working Title: SleepWell Genre: Horror Inspirations: • Halloween • The Ring Audience: Usually, the target audience for a horror film is male between 15-25, as younger audiences enjoy the thrills Primary audience: 16 - 30-year-old male audience Secondary audience: 31 - 45-year-old female and male audience BC1C2 The idea (characters)
- 3. Description Opens on shotof news article being held by unknown man, stating it is 1 year since the murder of Mia Reed and Cole Andrews is leading suspect. Then flashback to the killing of the girl (Andrew and female watching movie for intertextual reference, then flirtatious behavior begins and cuts to them after clearly having sex. Male character goes to clean his teeth and hears Mia scream and runs back into the room to see her scream at the sound of a phone notification. Then he laughs and leaves to the bathroom again and then hears her scream again so walks back and sees her lying on the floor dead, with ‘the ring’ style character standing over). Then cuts back to present day, and finally reveals who the man is that is holding the newspaper (being the same man that was thought to have killed his girlfriend), then shows him clearly alone and drinking quite a bit of alcohol and throughout this ending, having lots of flashbacks to him freaking out after finding his girlfriend dead. Then ends with him seeing this ring styled figure in present day.
- 4. Characters (Cole Andrews) ColeAndrews 17-year-old White male Stereotype (short hair, skinny) Countertypical as you would expect the male to be the hero, but ends up doing nothing) Different versions of him Past: Dressed in black joggers + oversized t-shirt, no shoes (to show relaxed state) neat short hair (possibly brushed back or to the side) - middle-class. After intimacy - just wearing underwear with same t-shirt from earlier, messy hair to clearly connote what has just happened. Present: possibly dressed in a suit but looks all scruffy (possibly connoting he may have just lost his job) + scruffy hair
- 5. Characters (Mia Reed) MiaReed 17-year-old At boyfriend's house White female (stereotypical blond white girl – easy to scare and slightly pathetic) Dressed in cosy clothing (grey joggers and grey sweatshirt as she is just watching a movie with her boyfriend and isn't dressing up)
- 6. Characters (Creepy girl) Creepygirl Other PowerPoint made on her character
- 7. Techniques used Narrative enigma- we will leave the identity of the man holding the newspaper as a mystery until towards the end + setting in unknown until towards the end Intertextual reference (scene where couple are watching 'Halloween') Propp: The villain – the girl seen that clearly murders the girl The hero – not shown as a hero in the opening but if the film was to continue, he would be the character to save himself
- 8. Techniques used Todorov's narrativestructure: • Equilibrium – couple are watching a movie and relaxed • Disruption – Mia gets killed • Recognition – Cole walks in and finds her dead • Attempt to repair – Later on there will be flashbacks to him running around trying to find something to repair it • No new equilibrium reached as its only the opening therefore we want to leave it on a cliffhanger
- 9. Location ideas Present takesplace outside First, man is sitting at bench reading newspaper Later when it cuts to this man in present, he is walking down a dark path, surrounded by trees Perfect area near (Louis') house Past takes place inside house The males house Easy to film at one of our houses (images and footage of areas will be added)
- 10. Influences • Friday the13th • Psycho • Halloween • Alien • A quiet place • It • Jaws (analysis on film openings on separate blogs)