Friday 9th November

Today Sophie and I discussed what we wanted our film to be like, including the setting, characters and props. We looked over what I posted earlier about ideas of what will be included in our film and we decided that it was all too cliche having the knife and girl and boy falling out and we felt it wasn't very traditional. We felt that the storyline needed to be more realistic and the characters needed to be more interesting and traditional as well as the props.
So we have decided to change our ideas as we researched more in to the type of theme we wanted.

Charaters:

We will have two young girls who are sisters in the flash backs of what their relationship used to be like before the sister got taken. We will portray their relationship as happy and free like any young children would be like so that it is clear they were just two typical girls.We decided to change the characters to two young girls because in our audience research we found that most people found a storyline with young children more frightening and spooky than older people.

We then will have the main girl as the age she is now about 16 years old. She will play a big part in the film as the victim of the killer.

As before we still want to keep the creepy man as the killer. We want him to be hidden in the opening sequence so that it doesn't give too much away too early, so that the audience want to find out what happens and who this man is and what he is going to do.

The setting will be the same as I noted down in the last post. It will be near a lake with surrounding wood area so that it is very enclosed and haunted. This will be the area in which the flash backs take place and where the girl goes when she feels sad to remember old times and to chill out.We have chosen for this type of setting because again in our audience research we concluded that most people found unknown settings more gripping and spooky and that is the idea we want to put forward so that the audience are grabbed in to watching it.

Props

This locket will be important in the film because it will be an object that the sister kept from when the little sister got taken, it will be the only thing left of hers when it happened. This locket will be held by the girl when the flash backs are shown as it will link with the fact that the audience will see the little girl wearing it in these flash backs.

This log will be significant in the film because it will be engraved with the two sisters names on it which will bring back flash backs of when they wrote on it together.

The overall storyline will be based on two sisters who were very close and did everything together and one day one of the girls vanishes whilst both playing in near the lake. There is a man who lives in an abandoned house near there and he is out to get the other girl years later. He has been identified before for hanging around down there but no one seems to believe them because he was thought to have died years ago...