The Pitch

Behind YouSophia, Ashleigh, Brandon and Harry

Overview

State your subgenre: supernatural thriller

Outline plot of sequence

Themes: supernatural thriller

Locations

Structure ACT 1: Act one begins with two friends walking through the woods after hearing

rumours about a supernatural being and go to explore. As the two main characters are joking around trying to scare each other they walk into the dangerous territory. This is where we see a flashback to around 70 years ago where someone gets attacked and killed in the same spot. The audience can see it’s a flashback as there is a yellowed filter on the scene and the place appears much newer, whereas the scene in present time has a bluish filter and the place appears more worn down and old. As the characters go further into the woods they begin to hear noises, thinking they are just paranoid, they continue, a little more afraid. They try to make a joke out of it and continue.

ACT 2: The noises grow louder and more obvious and they begin to get really afraid. They carry on a little more until one of the characters gets too afraid and decides to turn back, however the camera can already see that the being is standing behind them, creating dramatic irony. As they turn around the being is standing creepily behind them. They both begin to scream and turn around to run, however after editing it will appear that as they turn around the being has appeared in front of them. The being grabs one of the characters and kills him.

ACT 3: The other character has already started running, and after seeing the first character is past saving, carries on sprinting into the woods, screaming and begging for help she carries on, knowing the being could appear in front of her at any time. We see the character run past the spot where the flashback is filmed and part of Act 1 is filmed and the last shot we see is her feet running off.

Representation: Character

Character 1 - Supernatural being Character 2 – British character Character 3 - British character

How? Genre conventions? Attracting target Audience? Mood/Atmosphere creation? Depth of field to focus on the protagonist, blurring the background making the audience panic when

there is movement they cannot see clearly (deep focus) Extreme close-ups of protagonist's face to show their fear Quiet scenes with sudden sounds to create tension; for example rustling of trees, loud bangs and a

non diegetic heart beat. Most of the sounds that are in supernatural thrillers are mostly diegetic sound

Slow editing can create suspense and an unsettling feeling because the audience senses because nothing has been a fast pace for a while then something bad is going to happen

Canted anglesPOV shots

Extreme close ups

How? Mise en scene Setting – time and place

Props – prop requests?

Lighting

Costume/makeup

Performance and proxemics

How? Camerawork Canted angles POV Extreme close ups Tracking shot Zooms Focal length – shallow and depth

Sound Diegetic? Dialogue/voiceover script: dialogue,

trees and leaves rustling, screaming from the characters

Non- Diegetic? quiet music to make the audience feel

more on the edge

Post production We are going to use filters (blue or yellow) to indicate to the

audience that there is flashback from the past Diegetic and non-diegetic sound; quiet music to create tension

and also we are going to use the characters dialogue, screaming and trees rustling (everything the characters can hear)

Possible titles; THE FOREST, BEHIND YOU When editing we are going to make it look as if the

supernatural can transport different places

Influences from research Which films and opening sequences

have influenced you and why?

The babadook The forestParanormal activity