INITIAL FILM IDEAS BY ALICE FIELD-RAYNER
HALLUCINATIONS – PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR Characters Character 1: Antagonist Male Dark clothing Black big boots
Character 2: Killer Antagonist/ protagonist Male Armed with a gun Dark clothing
Mise-en-scene: Set at night Dark Street lights Ally way or a dead end street Garages
Character 3: Doctor Alexander from 'the meeting' Character 4: A young child
Character 5: Characters 1's mother Character 6: Someone from past
PLOT : • • • • • • • • • • • • •
It starts of in ally way with a fight between two men, faces hidden at first. Character 2 injures character 1 with a metal pole around the head. Character 2 runs off. Character 1 try's to walk away but gets caught in a dead end street. Staggers then slumps against garages because he is injured. Editing Effects on man as his head is spinning with confusion- point of view through characters 1's eyes- blurry views of the ally way and the pole with blood on in front of him. Character 1 then begins to hallucinate about all the people he has killed in his past. Character 3 appears, talking to character 1 Then gradual characters 4,5 and 6 appear speaking to him Includes flashbacks of how the killings happened e.g. The meeting Then character 1 winces as a pain shots through his head, all the other characters disappear as he closes his eyes. Character 1 then opens his eyes to find character 2 standing over him with a gun Then screen goes blank and a shot gun noise goes off, echoing in the ally way.
OPENING SCENE: Instead having each character (3,4,5&6) Appear on stage we could just play upon the audiences imagination. For instance, instead of the child he killed appearing in front of him there could be diegetic sound of the child's laughter turning into crying with distorted images coming up of the child covered in blood, and a hands around a child's neck or a knife covered in blood in character 1’s hands. At the start it could show how character 2 is related to one of character 1’s killings, for instance a shot of character 2 and character 4, walking in a park with the sun shining to make the audience think of happiness. Therefore, this will contrast to the dark lighting down the ally way.
QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS: Lighting:
Camera:
The whole of my audience who answered my questionnaire agreed that lighting implied a sense of danger and created tension, therefore the light from the street lights in my idea will give a eerie feel as things could be hidden in the darkness. Furthermore, 90% responses agreed that a scene being shot in the darkness adds to the overall atmosphere of horror and creates suspense, which is why I chose to set my idea at night-time.
Within the opening scene there will be quick paced camera shots in order to increase the overall tension as this is what the audience of my questionnaire thought. Additionally, at the start when character 1 and character 2 are introduced, fighting, a slow tilt up from the ground will be used ( an establishing shot ) as this is important to the audience in order to understand the location of the scene and how it’s a dead end which makes the characters appear vulnerable.
Sound: Instead of having non-diegetic sound such as, suspenseful music over the top of the action, I will focus more on silence moments and diegetic sounds such as, children laughing and crying and the sound of the men fighting as I think this will be more effective. From my questionnaire, 24/26 responses agreed that the use of the diegetic sound was affective.
https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=o4zcPM x1j7U This is a link to fight sound effects, some of this could be used in the editing of the film.