Psycho-Thriller media proposal

Danielle Mulqueen

Jamila Uysin

Berhan Sufaj

Proposal- Scene 1-6

Scene starts with a girl sitting at a table in a small

white room, sitting across from a psychiatrist. She’s

wearing all white and what looks like a straight jacket.

The man talks “So tell me your story...”

Scene 2

The audience hear the girl explaining how it all started; while the voice over is going we see a montage of what happened during her day; getting up, breakfast, going to school and so on.

We then see her in her house at night and she gets an email from the most popular girl in school.

Scene 3

The man asks, “what did it say?” to which she replies something innocent sounding; “Mean things; she said my hair was too black, I was too pale and ugly and abnormal…”

Scene 4The man then asks her “When did it start getting worse”.

The scene jumps to another flashback while she explains what’s happening in a voice over; “It started happening in school; she started taking my lunch and leaving notes in my locker, when I got home that night I was reading and I got a text…”

We then see her reading a fairytale book and we see the title ‘Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs”, we see the text saying something tormenting and then we see a tear fall on the page, she slams the book shut and that brings us to the next scene.

Scene 5In this scene we will se more of the interview and find out

some more information about the girl, we also see the sinister

side of the girl in this scene.

He asks her questions like “Was this your breaking point?”

“What did she say that made you mad” and so on.

They talk about fairytales and the girl’sobsession with them to which she asks the man “So, what’s your favourite fairytale?”

He ignores her question then looks at her and says “Then what happened”.

Scene 6This is a flashback of her at school. She’s sitting on a bench with her fairytale book laid out on the table in front of her, her lunch next her and a bright red apple sitting on the book.

We see the title of the story “Snowwhite…” showing and then we see the bully and her friends approach her.

The girls tease her about the book but the girl just ignores them until the bully takes the apple. The girl packs away her things and we see her smirk in a sinister way and then we see the bully take a bite of the apple and drop it on the floor- this is when the scene cuts.

Scene 7

This is the last scene.

The man asks the girl “So what happened next” to

which the girl simply replies “The end”.

Her voice is monotone and she is staring directly at the man, we then see her smirk and the scene cuts.

Crew

Jamila Uysin- Director, Editor, Producer and

Writer

Danielle Mulqueen- Director, Editor,

Producer and Writer

Berhan Sufaj- Director, Editor, Producer and

Writer

Equipment/props

Camera, costumes/attire, chair, computer, mobile

phone, bench, fairytale book, table, an apple.

Cast

Undecided

Locations

GRANITE ;)

Genre: Thriller, mystery, crime

Representation: Teenagers, bullying

Audience: 12+

Narrative: Voice over, flash backs

Institution:

Technology: We will use a Flip Cam to film it, then toedit it we will use iMovie on the Macs.

Example- Saw- short film (2003) Hard candy

Film inspirations

1. Saw

2. Hard Candy

Saw 2003

David, an orderly at a

hospital, tells his horrific

story of being kidnapped

and forced to play a vile

game of survival.

Hard candy

A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet.

Suspecting that he is a paedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.

Character profilesThere will be a range of characters; the protagonist which is a girl, the antagonist which is also a girl, the psychiatrist which will be a man and extras which will be either a group of girls or mixed between boys and girls for the ‘popular gang’.

It will be mostly focused on the main girl as the story is about her and what she did, and we will also see the bully quite a lot as she inflicting the pain upon the girl so we need to see her a lot to see how she does this.

The psychiatrist is quite an important character as he asks the questions that will overall tell the story to the audience.

Main actress

Name: Summer

Personality: Eerie, quiet, weird, timid, nerdy

Costume/props: Black/dark clothes i.e. black skirt, top, shoes etc in flashback and pure white clothes in interview room. She will have a mobile phone, fairytale book, computer, bag, and apple.

‘Popular girl’

Name: Alexia

Personality: Bitchy, jealous,

mean, arrogant, over-

confident, controlling

Costume/props: Preppy

clothes; stereotypical

‘popular girl’- short skirt, top

etc. She’ll have a bag.

The psychiatrist

Name: Unknown

Psychiatrist

Costume/props: Either a

suit or casual clothes

e.g. a jumper and jeans

or a shirt and trousers

Extra info

Non-linear; the narrative will be told through

a voice over and flashbacks

The story is based on the fairytale snow

white and real life experiences/stories we’ve

heard from friends (of them being bullied

and so on)