PRE-PRODUCTION

Individual synopsis:

Chyna Edwards

A girl and a boy have been in a happy relationship for 3 years when suddenly jealously takes over. This is due to her staying at work later with her co-workers and he begins to think she's cheating. When they’re together he acts as if there is nothing wrong but instead the jealousy is starting to build to fear and the fear of losing her turns to anger. As she leaves the house to go to work the paranoia continues. He starts to follow and track her moves when she goes to travels to work. She is oblivious to what he is doing. She believes he is at work. This continues for a couple of days then he starts to find personal information of her male co-workers by going through her Facebook page. One by one he writes their names and addresses down in a notebook.

Next there is a montage of shots showing the boy going to each of the co-workers houses taking pictures of them. He then goes home and prints two photos of each of the co-workers. One of the pictures he puts in his notebook next to their name.

As each day continues he enters the co-workers houses one by one and kills them. Once they’re dead he leaves one of the photos he took on their chest. Then he scribbles out their name and photo in the notebook. At home he comforts his girlfriend every time a co-worker she finds out a co-worker has died; at this point he has persuaded her to leave the workplace because he says “it’s dangerous.” Their lives continue like he did nothing wrong and the girlfriend suspects nothing.

Finley Sinclair

In a large secondary school in London, a teenager finds himself repeatedly being bullied. Every day he comes home after being bullied in tears and rushes to his room, where his mother comes every day to comfort him but he dismisses her. This time being bullied the leader of the group says "Why dont you go kill yourself?” A video of the bullying from someones phone goes viral in minutes. While walking home the teenager checks his phone and sees the video, at this point he has had enough. The teenager rushes home, greets his parents, explains hes going out with a friend, packs his bag, writes a note, puts it deep in his pocket and rushes out towards the local park. He reaches the park. He commits suicide in a park where he knows the group of bullies walks through to get to school. He leaves a note with 6 names and their addresses open in his room.

A montage shows his parents being worried that it’s late, the teenager is found in the park by the bullies, the parents are mourning, they see the viral video, and they find the note, the mother goes crazy. Time passes

One of the bullies is walking home on a street when he sees a homeless man, they beg for money and when the bully refuses the homelessman grabs his leg and screams, the bully kicks him off and runs in the opposite direction towards the park that the teenager killed himself in. The bully gets freaked out and walks faster because its so late, he sees a silhuette following him, he walks faster and faster, the silhouette starts to sprint towards him screaming, the bully trips over and looks up at the silhouette. The silhouette is holding a sign saying "Why dont you, go kill yourself?” Then they say "I'll do it for you"

Hannah Mason

During a young girls childhood she was always seen as the pretty girl in school and got the attention of all the boys in her school. Many boys wanted her to use her but one boy didn’t he cared for her. Whilst the girl went through her years in school she got mysterious letters from her secret admirer. The girl ignored this and went on with her school life. However her school life started getting worse and worse many friends started going against her and many rumours were made about something that never happened. Her pretty, good girl status was destroyed and all the kids in school started to give her dirty looks. She was lonely. However all through this she still got love letters from her mysterious lover.

Prom night was closing in and she never had any friends or a date to go to prom with this left her lonely and wondering on her own. When finally the popular boy from school asked her, this left the whole school astonished, as no one liked the girl. During a date that the boy asked she on they both noticed someone following them wearing a black tracksuit with a hoody up and what looked like long flowing red hair. From the dinner window the girl stands up and stares at where the man was last seen, a white van speeds past and shows that nobody is there.

The boy asks her to prom and they go but on their way there in the car they get into an accident where their car crashes. The girl gets dragged out by a man wearing a black hoodie and long red hair flowing from it. She screams and tries to crawl away but he grabs her hair and continues to drag her. Out of nowhere a random man comes out and kicks the man and they both jump into his car and drive to the school. Once they get to the school they notice that there’s no one there. In the confusion they stand still, silent. Suddenly the red haired bloke walks in and runs after them. This then starts a long chase scene where the killer chases them both. The film ends with the girl walking away from the school and then some man drives down the school road and runs her over. He steps out of the car and throws the love letters on her and pulls his hood down to uncover that he was the popular boy from school that has always helped her and she mistreated him throughout the whole school year and dove him into depression.

kien Hamilton

A school boy finds a bag in the middle of a park. The boy goes to the bag and it has a note on it. The note says something in Arabic language which spells warning. The bag unzips and a little girl comes out of the bag. We hear the boy say ‘What the hell where did you come from’. The little girl then ends up having powers and the boy hides the girl in his house with people trying to hunt her down. The girl and boy end up getting close and fall in love. One day the boy gets into an argument with the girl since she wants to go out more with him like on the TV but she gets upset.

The girl and boy have an argument and then the girl leaves and ends up getting caught by the bad men. The girl is then tortured and things and the boy who found her goes on a search for her. He gets many clues that end up leading to an abandoned location. We then see the boy sneak in almost make it to the girl but then he is captured. The boy is then tortured and the girl uses her powers to save him and they both escape whilst ending everyone. They then end up going out to a food store together and live happily ever after.

Final group Synopsis: Idea and back ground behind it.

FINAL GROUP SYNOPSIS

BASED ON A TRUE STORY

Angel Green hung herself from a tree next to her school bus stop so that her bullies could see her in the morning.

Early one morning in 2013, this fourteen-year-old from Indiana purposely hanged herself from a tree in front of her school bus stop so that her tormentors would see her lifeless swinging corpse. She had allegedly been repeatedly mocked as a “slut” and a “whore,” as well as enduring relentless teasing over the fact that her father had been jailed for hitting her. Her mother found a suicide note containing the following passages:

“Why did I deserve this pain?…Have you ever thought about what you said to me? huh… maybe not! because you killed me every day…. You told me so much that I started believing it. And I was stupid for doing that. Every morning, day, night I look in the mirror and cry, and replay the harmful words in my head

P.S. it’s bullying that killed me. Please get justice”

TRAILER

In a large secondary school, a teenager finds himself repeatedly being bullied and he tries to ignore and forget about it. One day it all changed as a group of bullies surrounded the girl calling her a slut and a whore. Her friends and the teachers just watched in fear for the kid but took no action.

The teenager runs away from his closest group of friends, that didn’t help him, back home. She storms in her room and one by one she writes 3 names down on a note. She grabs the note and rushes out towards the local park. She reaches the park. She walks to a bench and sits down she pulls out a bottle of pills and commits suicide holding the note. As her body relaxes she drops the note on the floor and the wind blows it away. An unidentified person is in the park and picks up the note.

The unidentified person harasses the 3 bullies throughout one day. One of the bullies is walking home on a street when he sees a homeless man, they beg for money and when the bully refuses the homeless person grabs his leg and screams, the bully kicks him off and runs in the opposite direction towards the park that the teenager killed himself in. Another bully is walking through an alleyway as he is reaching the end the unidentified person steps out from around the corner and grabs his top. The second bully gets scared and then runs the opposite way to him towards the park. The third bully is walking out of the park and he sees someone who thinks they know each other and the man forces them to shake hands but the bully does not know them. He gets creeped out and runs back towards the back.

One day the bullies discover 3 parts of the girls suicide note on themselves, becoming more and more confused they panic as they see the unidentified person.

Group Pitch

Pitch for teaser trailer from kien hamilton

Our pitch was done so we could show our classmates, our idea and get feedback from them which would help in the idea of our film. The class helped with our idea a lot and gave us feedback of what would be better for the film. We got feedback that our idea would show more emotional response if the victim is a girl that's being bullied by boys. This was a good idea that we took on board and therefore we changed the victim to be a girl.

Planning sheet

With this sheet we split everything into three, Beginning, middle and end. This was very crucial as it helped us identify where are shots would go and in what order we would edit them for our final production phase.

Shot lists