Tagline of Film: Everybody has a good and a bad side. Unfortunately, Mila's bullies discover both
Production Name: To be confirmed
Medium: Short Film
Format: Audio/visual
Certification: 15+
Target Audience: We aim to target people over the age 15 this is because the film involves the character being mentally unstable with manic depression and identity disorder, it also involves blood and gore which may distress some younger viewers. The demographics is of category D and E, this is an audience that have the appropriate income and have enough money to go cinema to watch films and are of the appropriate age to watch horror films. As a production team, we decided to on category D and E as we did research on survey monkey and found that mostly teenagers like to watch horror films. We also aim to all genders to include everyone. Our short film is mainly targeted to people who enjoy the psychological horror genre and the crime genre, as the short film includes murders and discovery of murders and a double identity. The psychographic of the audience would fit the ‘explorer’ (people who seek adventure, thrills and like to try something different), and ‘reformer’ (people who believe in seek personal growth, are socially aware and curious). We also aim to reach an audience who enjoys reading horror novels such as ‘The American Psycho’, ‘Coraline’ and ‘Carrion Comfort’.
Synopsis the film:
Sam is a timid girl who keeps to herself. Sam’s pent up frustration from keeping quiet from her bullies’ results her in having Dissociative Identity Disorder where she develops a pseudo identity that desires to avenge Sam’s broken-self and torture the bullies to death. Although, Sam doesn’t remember any of these murders taking place.
Character list/profiles:
Sam (Main character): A shy college student who ruthlessly gets bullied by students in her fellow college peers. She suffers from manic depression and has a rare mental disorder known as Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Bully 1: One of Mila’s college peer who emotionally abuses Mila and drives her to madness, Mila murders in an abandoned place.
Bully 2: Mila’s bully who torments Mila, and Mila eventually kills the bully in discreteness.
Key Scenes:
1. (Day 1) Flashback of a dark figure stabbing an already dead body ruthlessly. The camera is at canted low angle to make it seem as if the murder is being watched secretly.
2. Mila the main character wakes up from a ‘nightmare’ (flashback) and is out of breath from the vivid imagery. The camera: mid shot of her in bed distraught.
3. Mila walks into her Kitchen and makes breakfast, cleans and continues doing her normal daily routine.
4. Sits down to eat. The camera shifts from mid-shot to close-up of her.
5. Flashback: Mila getting teased and getting emotionally torn and physically beat up from her ruthless bullies.
6. Mila picks up her bag to go to work. The camera is positioned as a long shot where the door can be seen
7. Later that day Mila comes back, the camera is still at the same position
8. (Day 2) Mila walk into her room to sleep, camera from behind Mila following Mila’s movements
9. Mila struggling, groaning in her sleep (camera is canted to show her reaction when she is struggling)
10. Flashback/nightmare of Mila in a operation theatre, watching an almost-dead cadaver covered in blood, the camera pans to Mila’s face of her distraught reaction to the dead body. (Diegetic sound of Mila’s phone dinging continuously)
11. The dinging sting continues into next scene of Mila waking up from her nightmare due to the sound of her phone, Mila sees an article of the person being operated on ‘Dead’ on her social media.
12. Mila walks into her sitting room in utter confusion to clear her head thinking she might go psycho, when the sound of news is playing in the background, camera pans to TV, Mila hears her name and slowly and uncertainly turns around she feigns shock at what she sees.
13. CCTV footage of Mila caught dragging a body and stabbing the body repeatedly and ruthlessly. She looks up into the camera and smiles of finally avenging her past self.
Unique Selling Point:
Our unique selling point is that our main character develops this unique character that we don’t get to see in real everyday life. Our character has DID, DID is a rare identity disorder and it forms form having a very abusive childhood. Our production group presents the audience the consequences of emotional and psychical bullying. Also, our main character is unaware of being the murderer of her bullies which isn’t conventional for horror films as there is always one protagonist and antagonist, whereas our main character is both the protagonist and antagonist. This would be shocking to the audience because in most horror films there are conventions that the audience expect from these horror films, however because the audience settle into expectations when watching horror films, this is a shocking revelation to the audience.
Competitive market:
Our competition are movies with the psychological horror genre. An example would be of M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, Split is a psychological horror film and its main narrative is about the DID, however our film largely differentiates from Split as Split involves a number of personalities, and our character tries to discover what’s wrong with her. Moreover, Split is made by BlumHouse productions, who have made well-known films such as Paranormal Activity, Anabelle, Insidious, this means they are able to provide Split enough budget money to add CGI effects and to have a good location for filming whereas we did not have a budget and tried to improvise with what we have access to such as a green screen.
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