THE IMAGINARY FRIENDCrushed lips don’t talk

PITCH

A lonely child desperate for a friend unconsciously unleashes a monster from his deepest nightmares to accompany him. However some people are best left alone.

GENRE

The genre of the film is a thriller following the life of a child who fears the creature he’s created. This film is designed around the fear of the unknown factor that is used in the horror film genre.

CHARACTERS

Little boy (tommi): an innocent child who doesn’t know better, he is the only one able to see the monster. Must be fear fuelled and victimised. Can be played by a younger sibling.

Parents: They must be unaware and acting calm worrying about how strange and unnatural their child is acting. This part can be played by any two adults.

The Monster: It must be unseen only revelling itself to the camera when seen through the child's eyes, this creates a sense of fear as its unclear as to where and what its doing.

LOCATION AND BACKGROUND

Normal household with clear indications of a family living there (family pictures, children toys).

It must be dark outside with the scene lit by artificial light.

The room the scene is shot in will have a singular light source to create a low light setting.

Child drawings of the monster are littered across the room so that the audience have a sense of what's hunting the family, this builds the tense atmosphere.

There will be no music only audio to create a quiet tense atmosphere.

OPENING PLOT

Tommi's parents are searching the house for him as its bedtime. When found cowering under a desk littered with grotesque drawings of a hideous monster his parents question his obsession. Summing the encounter up as a harmless nightmare the family have a small close encounter from Tommi's ‘nightmare’

FILM PLOT

After the first encounter the father of the family becomes a victim of the nocturnal creature, this leaves the mother and son to a blind panic as they try and survive the night. They make it through the night however their efforts to contact people for help have lead to more death. They are found the next morning and the mother is sentenced the death and the son into childcare as there is no evidence they hadn’t committed the murders.