Initial Ideas

Idea 1

For the first idea there is an innocent and vunerable female saying goodbye to her female friend in a car park then there is a man by her car who subsequently kills her.

Scenario 1 - She offers her friend a lift but she refuses and says she is fine getting the bus because it is going out of the protagonists way to build tension amongst the audience. As she is putting shopping in her car boot a normal average looking dark clothed male approaches her in a natural and comfortable way. In the inital shot he looks menacing but as she turns aorund after she hears the footsteps his facial expression changes to a warming and welcoming manner. He manages to get her to give him a lift home because tyre broke/insurance sales man.

Brainstorm opening lines... "Hi, my car's broken down, this might be a very stupid question but do you know how to hot wire a car?" Then she replies no and he then asks for a lift. "Hey, I couldn't help but ask are you are 'Brians' daughter?" She replies yes then there is a flashback to the male at home researching her on facebook.

Scenario 2 - Her car window was smashed through as she returned to her car and there is the male sitting on the bonnet of her car. He approaches her by saying, "Hey oh my God I've been here for ages. There were some kids earlier trying to steal your car after throwing a brick through the window. I didnt want to leave the car alone so Ithought I would wait for you to return." She is very grateful and end up giving him a lift home. As he gets into the car thre is a quick cut to a rope and a knife under the passenger seat.

• Dark, shadows


• Black clothing for the male. Not revealing skin but face


• Light, sweet clothing for the female. Slightly revealing skin

Idea 2

To open the establishing shot is of a playground with the roundabout spinning, a young girl sits on it. A large and intimidating man approaches her and we see them converse, seemingly to the audience he will be the villain. She then runs away from him, beckoning him to follow and he obeys finally coming upon a building with the doors open. He enters the house to find the little girl with her head down playing with an old sinister toy. She then looks up and there is a quite shot to her face where she looks different and sinister. There is then a flash forward to him near death/dead/tied up.

• Incidental music to highlight the twist in plot

• The man should have his hood up so the audience cannot empathise with him to make the twist all the more shocking

• The girl should be innocent looking, dressed in white.

Idea 3

Establishing shot of a girl saying goodbye to her friends after a night out and starting to make her way home alone. She is then walking down the street when she notices a sinister looking car following her, she begins to walk faster and faster looking at the car not realising that she is in fact coming towards an alley. She then slowly turns around to the alley and we see a close up of her face as she see's somebody down the alley holding a knife.

• The girl should be wearing minimal clothing to highlight her vulnerability

• The street must be dark to tie into conventions of horror

• Music should be incidental and the use of silence is necessary to show her isolation

Idea 4

There is a group of teenage boys and girls mixed group. They are having a camping party in the woods with drugs and alcohol. One of the male characters pretends to have been taken away and is mocking scary horror films. Loud music and the males gets abducted by someone in the woods. His screams cant be heard because of the loud music. Then one by one people drop off the group in quick flash cuts between people struggling the murderer and the murdered until there is one person left. She struggles then to get away from a man who has appeared and is seen being killed.

Idea 5

This idea is very much the same as idea 4 but the location of the scene has changed into a house. A girls parents have gone away so she is having a gathering in her house with drugs and alcohol and loud music.

• Girls wearing revealing clothes to show vulnerability
• Drugs and alcohol to give the effect that they are doing bad things and 'deserve' to be punished
• Shadows and shots through blinds