Thursday, 1 October 2009

Horror Film Ideas

Our task in media was to come up with a clear narrative structure for a film that included : Horror, 5 teenagers on a road trip. Four of the teens disappear/die. One, a girl, survives.

Our generic conventions: we would use to make the horror element clear are dark settings - a forest, a storm looming, and high key lighting and flashes.

Our characters include 3 boys and 2 girls A boyfriend and girlfriend the girlfriends best friend and her boyfriend and the first girlfriends gay best friend.

The story starts with all 5 teenagers heading off to a lodge in the Pennsylvanian Woods for the weekend - one which was rented by one teenagers family friend.
As they are travelling along all jolly and excited it begins to get DARK . However they get to the lodge just fine and just before the storm arrives. They get in and unpack etc, and are all sat chatting over some wine in the living room, with the sound of the rain above them. THEN, there's a knock at the door!
When the girlfriend answers the door there is a farmer stood dripping wet, the lights flash and the girl screams as he has a pitchfork in his hand but as he steps into the light he is actually ok and explains that a tree has been felled across his road so he cant get back to his farm. So they let the farmer in and he stops over whislt the storm continues.
The next morning... The farmer is gone! AND so is the 2nd girls boyfriend!
They all decide to go looking to the woods to look for him and as they are shouting for him as they have split up the girlfriend suddenly hears a crunch under her feet and there on the floor is a set of teeth... Then as the girl looks up she sees her boyfriends shoes abandoned on the floor.... covered in blood... She screams and runs back to the lodge. Eventually the others come back. But the gay best friend doesnt...
They go inside but the lights of the lodge arent working.
The 1st girls boyfriend goes out to fix the generator, whilst the girls sit close waiting for the lights to be fixed they hear strange noises so run outside to the boy. He is nowhere to be seen. The 1st girlfriend sees the boyfriend at the car so follows over to where he was getting a torch and gets herself one too, however the other girl did not and went straight to where the generator was... The other two hear screams and run to the generator where the girl lies dead... with marks of a pitchfork on her neck!
The two now very freaked out head to the car and begin to drive out of the forest.
As they are driving along the road a man suddenly runs into the road... Its the farmer from the other night... He is covered in blood and bearing a pitchfork. The girl begins to speed up but the boy makes her slow down. THEN
A hooded figure jumps from the back of the car and slashes the boys neck.
The girl suddenly stops the car and tries to run free.. But remembers the farmer down the road so feels trapped.
The farmer is now running towards her.
Then he runs past her and straight to the car where he stabs the figure with his pitchfork grabs the bodies out of the car and screams to get the girl to go with him.
And then
They drive off into the night and DONT LOOK BACK!

Unfortunately Scott and I went into so much depth with our synopsis we never wrote an anti-narrative. Although i have tried to show how it could be changed into an anti narrative by starting from the end with the farmer running to the car grabbing the bodies and trying to get the girl to go with him, then from there start from the beginning but keep cutting into other seens like the hooded figure at the back of the car, so that its working from the back but continuing through the story at the same time. Eventually ending up back at the beginning (end) where the car is driven off into the night.

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