Thursday 13 October 2011
In this lesson we organized ourselves into our group, we then debated different genres and plot ideas that we wanted to pursue, until we all settled on a paranormal horror. We have chosen our film to be about two students trapped in school, after hearing story about a psychopathic teacher who used to teach at the school, who also died there after going on a killing spree. We also organized each other into what roles we will have:
.Will Taylor-camera man
.Mathew Clarke-one of the students who gets locked in the school.
.Kieran Coutinho-The other student who is locked into the school with Mathew.

The Pitch

Title: After Twilight.

Characters: Two sixth former students, recently moved to the school
                      Kieran & Matt

Location: Art Block of The Howard School

Genre: Paranormal Horror

Conflict:

·         Debate over whether the Ghost could be real

·         Between the Ghost and the students.

·         Lost friend and Matt cannot find him anywhere.

·         Trying to escape from the Art black

·         No Phone Signal

Structure of extract: Starts with Matt and Kieran not being able to open the doors to leave the art block. Then they start to debate whether or not the stories about the psychopathic teacher that they have heard are true or not. Loses friend, tries to find a phone signal because he begins to panic, finds friend, and gets pushed into a cupboard as well.

Story line:

Two sixth formers, who have just joined a new school to study their A-levels, are kept behind for ‘Twilight’ to study Art.  The new Sixth formers hear stories from other students/teachers about a psycho teacher who killed a classroom of students and then him self, a few years ago. When it gets dark, it feels as if you were there on that day. The new sixth formers start discussing it, but do not believe that there is anything paranormal happening, until when they try leaving the Art block, and they’ve been locked in. They come to the conclusion that it is just a freaky coincidence.  But after one of the students goes missing, the other starts to panic and tries to find phone signal in the block but cannot find any… The confused student comes across his fellow student, unconscious and tied up in a art supply cupboard. Matt tries untying Kieran, but get pushed in the door slams closed, hear shuffling and thuds from inside the cupboard whilst the camera slowly moves away and zooms out.

Will Taylor & Kieran Coutinho