Initial Group Idea

Our initial idea is in the horror/slasher genre. We targeted it at ages 15 to 35 and socio-economic groups C2DE as we found from our research this is the most popular audience for our genre. We rated our film a BBFC rating of 15.

Our establishing shot is black with candles slowly flickering in through the black. The light grows stronger to reveal a girl tied up and gagged covered in blood, similar to the effect in opening titles of Halloween (John Carpenter 1979) where the pumpkin fades in and the opening scene of Leprechaun (Mark Jones 1993) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5GcS1Z3So&feature=related). The scene starts black then a candle slowly flickers into shot, then another light source is introduced.

The music would be long drawn out notes to create tension and it would get louder as the candlelight became stronger.We would use a high angle shot to emphasize the girls vulnerability. She would be dressed in revealing clothes and have blonde hair as we want to stick to the typical "Scream Queen" stereotype to appeal to our audience. It would be set in a small dark room filled with torture instruments, comparable to the first torture room of Saw. which would be shown in our next shot, a panning shot of the room. Footsteps are heard and this cuts to a shot of two feet at the top of some stairs, they begin to walk down the stairs, the sound of the footsteps is amplified to create tension. As the footsteps come down the stairs there are short flashbacks of girls screaming, being tortured. We would use extremely high pitched screams to shock the audience. The flashbacks will be fast paced to contrast with the slow footsteps. The lighting source in the room will be a small window covered with newspaper, the light coming through will be blue tinted, an effect, we found though our research often used in horror possibly to connote supernatural activity. This technique is used in Halloween when Laurie walks up to the old Myers house to post something. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRPfIpH5OlA&feature=related)

There is a shot of the girl and sound of the footsteps coming towards her, she starts to become conscious. She sees the man and the knife and tries to scream, shaking her head. The man is dressed in a boiler suit similar to the one Michael Myers wears in Halloween. A point of view shot from the girl is used to show the murderer, then cuts to behind him and shows him stabbing her. We would have the man grunting and sighing, well-built in masculine clothes so even though you don't see his face it is connoted that he is male.

We decided if we were to take our idea beyond two minutes we would have the psychopathic killer capturing and torturing teenage girls until one day he decides to push himself to the limit and kidnap his cousin Nancy. We decided to have him kidnapping his cousin because in our research we found the killers victims are often of relation to the killer. We decided on the name Nancy as an inter-textual reference to Nancy from A Nightmare On Elm Street and we named the killer Hades after the main villain in The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Martin Weisz 2007) and the main character in The Hills Have Eyes : The beginning and also in English literature means "Hell".