Assessment 5 Pitch Idea

Plot Synopsis
A small town in the North East of England has been hit with a number of deaths particularly amongst teenagers and young adults. This is due to them becoming obsessed with the occult, by researching it on the internet and making disturbing notes about it and drawing peculiar symbols. Then mysteriously getting killed, about ten people die a week because of this and hundreds have been killed over the past few months. No one knows the causes of these deaths it’s surrounded in mystery.

Opening Sequence
A teenage boy goes missing after making notes about and becoming obsessed with the occult. His mother reports him missing to the police while holding the notes he made before he went missing. Some dialogue features while she is on the phone to the police and the camera keeps cutting between the mother on the phone and her son walking through the woods with narration over it and incidental music. As the son is walking through the words he pulls some notes out of his pocket and then walks up to a tree and pulls a piece of paper off with a mysterious symbol on. There’s a lot of darkness and a lot of cuts to a blank screen while cutting between the boy walking through the woods and his mother on the phone. The titles will come on the screen as the boy is walking through the long grass. Also there’s flashbacks to the boy making notes at the beginning in black and white. It ends with the son putting the symbol back on the tree and slicing through it with a knife and then it cuts to the mother dropping the phone.

Target Audience
Although my sequence is going to be an 18 certificate it will appeal to a wider target audience, people over that particular age as it is illegal for anyone younger than 18 to view an 18 rated movie. The main target audience will be the 18-35 age range as they will be able to relate to it more and have a better understanding of the youth orientated theme as the main plotline focuses on teenagers and their obsession with the occult.

Creative Techniques
The creative techniques I plan to use in my sequence are mocked up newspaper articles explaining the amount of teenage deaths that have occurred relating to the occult. A knife to slice the symbol off the tree and after this happens the camera quickly cuts to my mother dropping the phone, this adds effect to make it more mysterious and creepy which fits in well with the horror theme. The location of the woods is usually seen as a peaceful place were people take their dogs for walks and not much happens there, however in my sequence it becomes this haunted eerie place were teenagers go missing and mysteriously die. So therefore it’s a contrast compared to every day life. Other creative techniques include visual effects and the camera cutting between me walking through the woods pulling pieces of crumpled up paper out of my pocket, with coffee stains on to make it look old fashioned, so it fits in with the genre of horror, and my mother on the phone to the police reporting me missing telling them that I haven’t gone missing like this before.