Using the results of our research and the questionnaire we started the task of deciding on a story line for our movie.
This is what we came up with:
A group of A-level media students are filming their coursework together in a small group.
The group is in disagreement in what should be done and by by whom. This is because the only one person (Alfie) in the group who cares about his education and therefore his media grade too. The other members of the group (Megan and Leela) could not care less about the coursework or Alfie’s feelings.
As Alfie is bullied by these amoral teens he is pressurised to do terrible things. Alfie becomes more and more frustrated and panicked about what to do as he can see his A grade slipping away.
Alfie decides to make his own trailer. Alfie has become completely psychotic by now and has confused fiction with reality. He chases Megan and Leema through the trees at night and kills Megan horribly slashing her multiple times with his mum's bread knife. The tension mounts as he then hunts down Leema and we watch Alfie getting madder and madder as he slowly traps Leema - with the same horrible result.
The movie is set in a modern day school during the day and in the park at nightfall, which will allow us to create a good balance between realism and a good atmosphere for the intense scary situations.
So, we have a slasher movie with teen thrown in. Plus we have the Nerd aspect to provide some wry humour (nothing slapstick). The story has a "play within a play" feel to it as the audience watch a film of a film with the line between the one and the other becoming increasingly blurred. What is real and what is not? And the main character is a male. It all seems to fit with our research.
Now we need a title, a storyboard and a shooting schedule before we can start shooting.
The group is in disagreement in what should be done and by by whom. This is because the only one person (Alfie) in the group who cares about his education and therefore his media grade too. The other members of the group (Megan and Leela) could not care less about the coursework or Alfie’s feelings.
As Alfie is bullied by these amoral teens he is pressurised to do terrible things. Alfie becomes more and more frustrated and panicked about what to do as he can see his A grade slipping away.
Alfie decides to make his own trailer. Alfie has become completely psychotic by now and has confused fiction with reality. He chases Megan and Leema through the trees at night and kills Megan horribly slashing her multiple times with his mum's bread knife. The tension mounts as he then hunts down Leema and we watch Alfie getting madder and madder as he slowly traps Leema - with the same horrible result.
The movie is set in a modern day school during the day and in the park at nightfall, which will allow us to create a good balance between realism and a good atmosphere for the intense scary situations.
So, we have a slasher movie with teen thrown in. Plus we have the Nerd aspect to provide some wry humour (nothing slapstick). The story has a "play within a play" feel to it as the audience watch a film of a film with the line between the one and the other becoming increasingly blurred. What is real and what is not? And the main character is a male. It all seems to fit with our research.
Now we need a title, a storyboard and a shooting schedule before we can start shooting.
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