Script

Here is an exert from the opening sequence with  the most dialogue.


Annabelle: "OMG did you hear what Mark said to charlotte?!"

Lucy: *laughs loudly* "Yeah it was so awkward!"

Lucy: "I wish we stayed at the party longer"

Annabelle: "Yeah but your mum said she wanted you home before 1:00.. come on we need to get a move on!"

*Annabelle grabs lucy by her arm*

Lucy: "We should have got a cab, then we wouldn't have had to leave as early"
Annabelle: "Lucy stop complaining, we've spent all our money!"

*Lucy groans in frustration*

Annabelle: "What was that?!"
Lucy: "What?"
Annabelle: "Wait! shut up for a second!"

*Annabelle looks over her shoulder slowly*

Annabelle: "Ok don't look but I think someone is following us.. walk faster!"

*Walk faster*

*Crazy women also gets faster*

Annabelle: "Lucy come on! Hurry up!"

*Annabelle and Lucy speed up their pace*

*Crazy women also speeds up*

Annabelle: "RUN!"

Synopsis

Annabelle is haunted by her traumatic past, constantly having flashbacks. She seeks help from a psychiatrist who attempts to comfort her in accepting what happened to her best friend Lucy. A flashback makes her relive the terrifying experience.

Annabelle and Lucy are walking home from a party one night,when they notice that someone is following them. In panic, they are led into the dark woods. The two girls then lose each other amongst this sudden terror. Annabelle loses track of the crazy women while Lucy stops for a few breaths. Annabelle finally comes across Lucy, but it's too late as Lucy has been brutally attacked. Months later, crazy women escapes from mental institute again.

To this day, Annabelle is still uncertain of why her best friend was killed.

25 word pitch

'RETURN' A crazed murderer escapes from a mental institute. Chases to girls,murders one of them but leave the other for later...

Target Audience

When trying to come up with a suitable target audience, we faced a problem with deciding whether our film would be made for the young male population or the young female population.

We looked at an article from the guardian 'Do women and horror films mix?' and found that a lot of the points made were very insightful. 'Psychologists have long believed that our attention to horror films is that they allow us to explore and experiment with fears and emotions, but there are suggestions that women respond to fear in a way that men don't. "I think women have a different take on what people find scary. I love horror films but most I don't find scary. Some of the ideas that women have come up with are scary, perhaps rooted in their in their own experiences. A lot of them have female lead characters. What we're not getting is the standard horror film, where the only appearance girls make is to run around semi-clothed before getting their heads chopped off, the female characters are much more important in the narrative than in most horror films."

In the last 10 years, the female audience for horror films has grown quite a lot, whereas before, the horror films were mainly made for males under the age of 25.

Now that the there are more horror films being made for the female population, and we have two female lead characters, we think that our target audience for our film will be females and males under 25 as it is a thrilling piece for both genders.

Influences

Our main influence for our opening sequence was the messengers as we really liked the thrilling side to it. We didn't want a lot of gore in our film, therefore we chose to have more suspense.

What is an opening sequence?

An opening sequence is the method by which films present their title, key production and cast members. It usually follows but should not be confused with the opening credits which are generally nothing more than a series of names.

In the opening sequence of most films they display their company logo. E.g. 'In her shoes'...

In the opening sequence they include credits such as the producers name, names of people staring in the film and director... 

In the opening sequence most films include action, to excite the audience...

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