Today we got together to further discuss the ideas that we came up with on Tuesday so that we can get a solid plot and begin work on a rough draft of the script. We thought that the idea about the girl having an "imaginary" friend would be a good idea, because we could evoke lots of emotions from the audience through that character. We also want it set in an everyday environment so that it follows the conventions of a psychological horror. This is the same reason for our main character being very plain and having a stereotypical "quiet girl" personality, as in most psychological horror films you see ordinary characters exerting horror on others.
We came up with a basic plot for our film which has the beginning set in the school counselors office. We initially had the idea that it would be a therapist's office, but our tutor suggested that maybe that was a bit too far, because why would someone go see a therapist after just being concerned for a friend? So we changed it to a school counselor's office as almost every school has a counselor type person that students can go to when faced with troubles. We wanted this to be our first scene and then have Natalie (the girl in the scene who is speaking to the counselor about her friend) continue speaking in a voice over of scenes of her friend (unnamed) who is acting very strange like there is a cat beside her, when in reality, nothing is actually there.
We thought that by having a voice over to tell the story it would make it more interesting as its being told from an outsiders perspective so that the audience are kept guessing and will probably have the same questions as the narrator. We also though it would make things clearer too in case the audience don't understand as our idea is quite complicated. For this reason, I think that when we start our storyboard it might be a good idea to do a video one.
When the voice over begins, (unnamed) is going to be shown on her own wondering through college. Then Natalie will go up to her and yell at her and make her cry, because Natalie doesn't understand why (unnamed) is acting so strange. (unnamed) will then run off and sit in a corner on her own and appear to be talking to someone, but there is no one there. A ghostly hand will then appear on her shoulder and she will smile. She will then reach her arm out as though she is trying to grasp something.
At this point the film will reveal a scene where (unnamed)'s girlfriend Belle saves (unnamed) from being hit by a speeding vehicle, and Belle is killed in the process. The scenes of (unnamed) walking around on her own will then be shown again, but instead of her being alone there is a very mutilated girl walking along beside her holding her hand and such, and it is at this point that the audience will realizse that (unnamed) is not crazy she is just trying to deal with the loss of her girlfriend who she had to keep a secret.
We thought that during the scene where we suggest that (unnamed) is not alone, when the ghostly hand appears, that instead of having it appear on her shoulder we could have it appear on her waist so the gesture is more intimate. We could even have a lipstick mark appear on her cheek at this point too.
We're going to get together on Monday and try to come up with a basic draft for a script. I found a really useful tutorial on script writing, which will help those of us who, like me, have never written a script before.
We came up with a basic plot for our film which has the beginning set in the school counselors office. We initially had the idea that it would be a therapist's office, but our tutor suggested that maybe that was a bit too far, because why would someone go see a therapist after just being concerned for a friend? So we changed it to a school counselor's office as almost every school has a counselor type person that students can go to when faced with troubles. We wanted this to be our first scene and then have Natalie (the girl in the scene who is speaking to the counselor about her friend) continue speaking in a voice over of scenes of her friend (unnamed) who is acting very strange like there is a cat beside her, when in reality, nothing is actually there.
We thought that by having a voice over to tell the story it would make it more interesting as its being told from an outsiders perspective so that the audience are kept guessing and will probably have the same questions as the narrator. We also though it would make things clearer too in case the audience don't understand as our idea is quite complicated. For this reason, I think that when we start our storyboard it might be a good idea to do a video one.
When the voice over begins, (unnamed) is going to be shown on her own wondering through college. Then Natalie will go up to her and yell at her and make her cry, because Natalie doesn't understand why (unnamed) is acting so strange. (unnamed) will then run off and sit in a corner on her own and appear to be talking to someone, but there is no one there. A ghostly hand will then appear on her shoulder and she will smile. She will then reach her arm out as though she is trying to grasp something.
At this point the film will reveal a scene where (unnamed)'s girlfriend Belle saves (unnamed) from being hit by a speeding vehicle, and Belle is killed in the process. The scenes of (unnamed) walking around on her own will then be shown again, but instead of her being alone there is a very mutilated girl walking along beside her holding her hand and such, and it is at this point that the audience will realizse that (unnamed) is not crazy she is just trying to deal with the loss of her girlfriend who she had to keep a secret.
We thought that during the scene where we suggest that (unnamed) is not alone, when the ghostly hand appears, that instead of having it appear on her shoulder we could have it appear on her waist so the gesture is more intimate. We could even have a lipstick mark appear on her cheek at this point too.
We're going to get together on Monday and try to come up with a basic draft for a script. I found a really useful tutorial on script writing, which will help those of us who, like me, have never written a script before.
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