We had chosen psychological horror
as our sub-genre as we felt it was a more mature type of horror sub-genre, and
would therefore look more professional when it came to the trailer. When we
discussed scary film narratives that we particularly liked, surprisingly, we
found simple psychological thriller narratives (as opposed to more horror-based
narratives) particularly scary, specifically the film One Hour Photo. We therefore decided to draw
inspiration from this narrative, and include a stalker who takes lots of
pictures, within our trailer. We had many different ideas on how we would
incorporate the stalker and how the narrative could pan out...
- We considered making the stalker a random man, with no connection to the family - he would become infatuated with the main female lead, after a chance meeting, and become infatuated with her, eventually killing her at the end, after growing angry that she rejects his advances. However, we felt this narrative was extremely simple, and almost identical to the narrative of Fatal Attraction; we wanted to make sure it was scary and that there was a twist.
- We then considered making the stalker an ex-boyfriend of the lead female, after discovering this is the case in many, real life stalking scenarios. However, we struggled with other parts of the narrative when building it around this concept, and worried again that it wasn’t scary enough.
- We considered making the stalker a random man, with no connection to the family - he would become infatuated with the main female lead, after a chance meeting, and become infatuated with her, eventually killing her at the end, after growing angry that she rejects his advances. However, we felt this narrative was extremely simple, and almost identical to the narrative of Fatal Attraction; we wanted to make sure it was scary and that there was a twist.
- We then considered making the stalker an ex-boyfriend of the lead female, after discovering this is the case in many, real life stalking scenarios. However, we struggled with other parts of the narrative when building it around this concept, and worried again that it wasn’t scary enough.
- We still wanted the
stalker and the lead female to have a connection, because we felt it would help
the narrative to make more sense, and would allow more room for a twist in the
narrative towards the end of the film. This is why we decided eventually on
making the antagonist the lead female’s half-brother, whom was given up for
adoption years before she was born – this narrative included an unexpected
twist for the audience, a convention of horrors, and also allowed us to build a
narrative that flowed.
Throughout the process for creating our narrative we changed minor details. Above is the final edition of our idea. We have scrapped certain scenes such as the skype scene. We chose to lose this scene as when we tried to film it, it looked unprofessional and wasn't at the standard we would have liked so we decided to not include it in our trailer, however it would have been in the film if the actual film was going to be made. We also changed the torture scene location, it was going to be in a bedroom but we changed it to a garage. We did this because we though the garage was a better 'torture chamber' and more scarier as it is dark, cold and gloomy whereas a bedroom is not. Our idea for the narrative is completely established, we have no further ideas, we have only made amendments.
Throughout the process for creating our narrative we changed minor details. Above is the final edition of our idea. We have scrapped certain scenes such as the skype scene. We chose to lose this scene as when we tried to film it, it looked unprofessional and wasn't at the standard we would have liked so we decided to not include it in our trailer, however it would have been in the film if the actual film was going to be made. We also changed the torture scene location, it was going to be in a bedroom but we changed it to a garage. We did this because we though the garage was a better 'torture chamber' and more scarier as it is dark, cold and gloomy whereas a bedroom is not. Our idea for the narrative is completely established, we have no further ideas, we have only made amendments.
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