Thursday, 21 November 2013

Research and Planning: Initial Group Meeting

Character Profiles
The dumb blonde – The girl who is idolised by her friends and enemies, who is also popular, selfish and attractive. A weak unknowledgeable person who is possessed because of her weakness and later dies from her possession.

The boyfriend – The well-known athlete who is with the dumb blonde. The guy who influences his friendship group, encouraging them to drink and do things they don’t want to. His death is due to trying work out his possessed girlfriend but she overcomes him.

The other friend – The guy who appears to be an all-round happy person, enjoying life and confident. He cares about his appearance and likes the dumb blondes boyfriend.  When trying to escape and find help he is dragged back to the graveyard and into the church, presumed dead.

The final girl – The well-educated, sensible, plain looking girl who is the quieter one of the group but is liked by her friends. When left as the final girl she battles to save her possessed friend but realises there is nothing she can do as her friend is already gone and is left to defend herself and end the possession but fails to do so.

The dead friend – a teenage girl who was very vulnerable and sensible. The girl who strived to be popular but was very impressionable and high achieving. Her death happened june of 2011 when at a house party. When influenced to drink more than she was willing to she was left dead after drinking too much. NOT SEEN IN TRAILER BUT HINTED AT.

Setting – The first setting is one of the friend’s houses, where the girls are getting ready to go out. The main setting where the rest of the film is set is in a graveyard during the era of 2012 on a cold December evening.


Audience – The primary audience is aimed at teenagers and young adults around 15 – 25. We have chosen this primary audience as it will appeal to teenagers as they are watching actors around the same age and may base their actions by what they do. It also interests this audience as it is a horror and will scare the people watching it so they will get pleasure out of watching it.

The secondary audience is aimed at older adults. This will appeal to parents as they may be interested in what their children are watching and maybe to find out how teenagers their own children’s age are stereotyped in films.

Films similar existing films – The first film that is similar to our horror trailer is ‘Cabin in the Woods’, this is due to the similar character profiles and the concept of a group of teenage friends out together when strange things start to happen. The second film is ‘The Exorcist’, we thought this is similar as possession is used as the main theme. The last film that is similar is ‘Final Destination 3’ as is again about a group of teenagers. 

Synopsis

A group of four friends one of their homes, they are all getting ready to go out for the evening and having pre-drinks. When getting ready two of the girls are chatting in the bathroom when a mobile rings and the dumb blonde answers, when trying to discover who this person is at the end of the line she is confused when she can only hear breathing so hangs up. However freaked out this phone has made her she presumes it was her boyfriend. When ready to leave there guy friends turn up, whom is also the dumb blondes boyfriend. They all head out on their way to the nightclub. When locking the door as they leave the front light switches on and worries all four friends. When walking towards a graveyard they have to walk through to get to their destination one of the girls suggest to go back as they feel ‘weird’. As the group of friends enter the graveyard, the dumb blonde is hit with the possession and one by one begins to kill the others. The final girl is left to try and fight for her life, however the last fight leaves them both dead with the spirit of the dead friend still alive.

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