Research and Planning: Individual Ideas

Synopsis 
A woman is haunted by a younger boy (around 5 - 7) and follows her around every where she goes. Starts when she moves into a house and finds a locked room that the boy grew up in before he died. As the woman starts to notice more unusual occurrences, she tries to find out what is happening to her but the boy who becomes increasingly angry at her starts to become more violent in the hauntings. She finds out that a little boy was killed by his mother there 10 years ago but she mysteriously disappeared along with his body. At the end of the film, the boy kills the woman who believes she is his mother.
Character profiles

The woman - Around 25 and moves into a new house, she starts to see weird things happening around her and people in the area are starting to go missing. She becomes increasingly worried and panicked and tries to investigate.

The boy - A boy who was killed 10 years ago by his mother and his body was never found. Sings nursery rhythms around whenever he walks which the woman hears. Leaves bloody hand prints on the floors of his old room.
Man who warns her - When the woman is trying to find out what is happening to her, an unknown man knocks at her door and warns her to not find out and get too involved as the boy has done it before and is trying to find his mother.Setting details

The main setting is the new house the woman has just moved into which focuses in the main bedroom that used to belong to the child and the living room where she often hears footsteps and singing. Over the progression of the film, the house starts to become more horror themed and scary which the woman can't control.
The film also has some scenes in a church/graveyard where she tries to find out what happened to the boy and his mother.
Proposed audience
The main target audience for this film would be mid to late teens and adults as it would have some very scary scenes with a lot of jumpy shots to scare the audience and would have a classification rating of 15. The use of adults and children in the film would attract an older audience while the themes of ghosts and undead spirits would attract a more teenage audience.