screenplay

Screen play. LAMIA.

 

Opening.

                       Start.

 

Screen goes from black to a close up of a swinging light bulb. The screen will also have a flickering effect, like a flickering light bulb.

 

Title (Phoebe Oldfield)

 

Fades out to black.

 

Bible laid open on a surface, words are underlined and circled. Words related to the devil or evil.

 

The book starts bleeding from one corner as if it was a person. Book closes.

 

Close up of flame.

 

Flash of bible closed with no blood.

 

Title (Olivia Needham)

Title burns away.

 

Bible on fire. Is revealed.

 

Pan around the room to a white wall. Slow flickers of light, dark to light etc. Flicker from the white wall to a hand covered in blood leaving a diagonal trail of blood along the wall ending with a hand print.

 

Close up of blood, with a title. (Shannon Nunn)

 

Flash to hands holding a cross, slowly pushing it up from chest to stretched arms.

 

Flashes of different part of the cross.

 

Images of family photos, burning in and out of different photos changing the saturation.

 

Images drop to the floor as a title comes up while they fall. (Created by, Phoebe Oldfield, Olivia Needham and Shannon Nunn)

 

Hand/nail scratch faces off the parents.

 

Flash/fade to, title (Director, Editor and Music)

 

Scatter across the floor of a grudge looking girl, going up the walls.

 

Camera pan around the room, to reveal a girl in the corner not showing her face.

 

Black screen. Main Title (Lamia) comes up.

 

Fast image of Mia screaming.

 

 

                        End.

 

5 Things to remember when we go out filming!

Hello, post about some things we need to remember when filming!

5 things to remember :

• To film 5 seconds before 'action' and 5 seconds after 'cut'.
• We need to check our location before we film. Making sure we visit at a similar time we are planning to film.
• Start the pan before we would need to. This makes sure there is no jerky movements before.
• To use a clipper board or a piece of paper, to help us easily choose what clips to use in post production.
• We need to remember to film a variety of shots, so we can choose the best one.

Prop post.

Hi, I'm going to be doing a post on the props we need to use in our thriller opening! I worked out some prices and how much money we should each contribute! :)

The props needed :

• A white night gown - £3
• Bible - £1
• Make up - £5
• Black long wig - £5
• Cross - £1
• Fake blood - £3
• Family photos -£1
• White socks - £1

 I've decided that to be on the safe side all three of us, need to make sure we save £8 each to go get the props before we film.

One page pitch.

One page pitch.

Age rating:

We have chosen to make our film a 15 because it may contain:

§  strong violence

§  Frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').

§  portrayals of sexual activity

§  sexual nudity

§  discriminatory language or behaviour

§  drug taking

Target Audience:

The target audience will be age 15-30 as our film is based on a teenage girl and therefore will be relatable. Even though this is a psychological thriller it will include ‘normal’ everyday life scenes that show the contrast in before and after.

Tag line:

“Laid in bed crying as her parents told her nightmares aren’t real. What they didn’t know is she would soon become the nightmare.”

The what if:

You can’t hide from your sins. He will get you one way or another. No matter how many times you attend church. Or how many crosses you wear on your body. The bible you sleep next to at night is just not enough. What if it was your precious baby who paid for your sins? That is on your back. What if?

Plot:

A woman who has spent her youth as a sinner, experimenting with sexuality, neglecting to follow the path set down by her excessively religious family, even murdering a man one night whilst under the influence of drugs and alcohol and caught up with the wrong crowd, is now in her late 20’s, is healthy and happy and has fallen pregnant. The baby is born and is named Mia, and all is well. Over the years, strange occurrences play out in relation to the child, injuries, accidents, and disappearances. As the girl reaches her mid-teens, the occurrences become considerably worse, and the girl’s behaviour turns sinister and she begins to exhibit all kinds of violence. By the time the girl is 15 years old she appears to be totally taken over by a paranormal force. With nothing left to do, her parents bolt her into a small room until they kind find a way to cure/exorcise their daughter. They visit a paranormal expert in order to make sense of what’s happening and he soon pieces together that what is going on could be the work of the demon named Lamia, who preys on children, and that the demon must be punishing the mother for the crimes committed in her youth by possessing her child. Back at the house, Mia thrashes her way out of the confined room and escapes, letting her loose to terrorise nearby people. She stabs three young girls and then disappears off into the night. Her parents, still with the paranormal expert, find out that the only way to release the demon from their daughter, is for the mother to confess her sins in the eyes of God in Church. Just as they arrive at church, they are surprised to find that Mia is waiting for them. In a nail biting finale, Mia murders both of her parents and stumbles out of the church. The movie ends as possessed Mia is seen stood in a church doorway covered in blood.

Seven Analysis

Plan for One Page Pitch

Conventions of a Thriller