Initial ideas / Film Ideas

Tim's story opening: 

Scene starts with the two teenagers laughing in a living room with the TV on and candles in the background. The teenagers become bored and decide to play tarot cards. The teens pull the Death, Hanging man and Tower cards to then be greeted by a thunderstorm erupting in the background. Scenes of a mysterious figure can be seen in the background through the windows of the house. Throughout the opening there will be crosscuts of the mysterious figure entering the area and the garden of the house. 

After a short while, the TV begins to static and the candles flicker. One of the teens start to panic whilst the other brushes it off and tries to calm the other down. TV now switches off completely  and both teenagers become anxious. 

The murderer eventually breaks into the house without the teenagers knowing. He begins to taunt and torture them mentally.

Rebecca's Opening:

The scene starts with the detective looking at images of the missing girls and looking at the possible suspects. Then the scene changes to a girl in a forest, struggling to walk and end up in a town and collapses. Towns people send her to the local hospital. Diegetic sounds are playing (footsteps and crunching leaves); and non-diegetic sounds in the background (slow, creepy music).

The girl is taken to the family and tries to settle in; there are interviewers outside the house interrogating the family. The family are shocked to see the girl returning and conflict occurs within the household between the parents as one thinks that she isn't the daughter; the dad is always out and the brother is in a gang and always getting arrested.
The detective tries to get answers out of the girl and find the men who were involved, however the girl doesn't want to talk to anyone and isolates herself away from everyone.

The girl fakes a death and runs away as she can't cope being back at home, leaving the family in distraught and horror from the incident. However, the detective still tries to find the men that were involved and doesn't believe that the girl is actually dead, therefore he tries to find her too. He finds clues from newspapers and travels to Iraq and Germany to find the three soldiers that took the girls.

 Ryan's opening idea

a group of teenagers are at a large house party to celebrate on of their 16th birthdays. The scene opens with them all drinking and speaking about the history of their friendship. The scene then cuts to them cleaning up after the party. one of the friends then finds a mysterious looking book that has strange ancient symbols on the cover. One of the friends says to leave the book alone but the friend who discovered it takes it with them and reads if.

A week after reading a selection of passages from the book the friends experience consistent bad luck until one of the friends decide to interrogate the  friend who read the book. The next day after rhis the friend mysteriously disappears and the scene cuts to them appearing to be possessed by evil spirits and wreaking havoc amongst their friendship group.

the scene ends with a news report which is informing of the deaths of the three teenagers who were involved with this book and its evil history.  

We have decided to use Tim's idea for our final product of our film due to it conforming to the most conventions of the horror genre for example there is a murder and an isolated setting with low-key lighting that is filmed at night. We also chose this film idea as opposed to the others as the locations we would require are more accessible and is the residence of one of our team members so we would not require any special permissions to use this location for filming. 

We have not chosen to use the other crew members ideas as they would require multiple locations that we would need special permissions in order to film in an multiple times and these might not always be available when we need to be filming and by using a domestic environment it means it is likely to be available when we will be requiring it for filming an maybe even on multiple occasions.