Monday, 24 February 2014

Changes Made To The Film Synopsis...

After completing the film synopsis for our trailer, we asked a couple of people what their thoughts about the synopsis were. after receiving feedback we realised that there were sections of the story line that did not make sense and that were not meeting the conventions of a thriller film. Because of this we decided to re-think the story line and made a few changes.  One main change that we made was the fact that we removed a character. Rather than having two people in search for the missing girl, we decided to have just one looking for her. we also changed location from multiple destinations to simply basing the clues found in a large wooded area. we felt that this would work better for the scene of a thriller film and add more mystery to the trailer. when filming the trailer we plan to film within the woods during the day so that the characters within our trailer will be seen clearly and the filming will be clear and visible. 

The New Film Synopsis:
Two friends arrange to meet up (Frankie & Brooke). One of them turn up (Frankie). But the second does not (Brooke). She wait for her. An hour passes so she try’s to contact her but cannot. Frankie starts to worry. She travels to Brooke’s house. She is not there either. Her parents have not seen her all day. She has run away before so they are not as concerned. Frankie go’s back to where they arranged to meet to check she wasn't running late. She finds a phone ringing on the floor. It’s Brooke’s. Her concern grows. She goes to the police and reports Brooke's disappearance. Police cannot do anything until after 24 hours and with no evidence. Frankie looks through Brooke’s phone. She finds a text that mentions a specific location within the woods that they are both familiar with.  She arrives at the area within the woods and find dirt marks that look like someone has been dragged away. This gives Frankie an idea of where to start looking for Brooke. Whilst following this trail she finds a bracelet on the floor. It’s Brooke’s. She continues looking within the woods. She also finds a scarf that belongs to Brooke stuck in a tree. At this point she has a feeling that Brooke is trying to leave her clues so that she can find her. Eventually Frankie comes across a  small house in the middle of the woods. She sees a man take Brooke inside the house. Frankie finds an open window and sneaks into the house. She searches for Brooke. Whilst looking around there are moments where the Frankie nearly gets caught by the man that is in the house. She finds a locked door. By looking through the keyhole of the door Frankie sees Brooke tied to a chair. She then searches for the key to the door. The kidnapper is sitting on the sofa watching telly. Frankie sees a key on the table next to him and she thinks it’s the key for the locked door. The key for the door is on a table next to him. Frankie then sneaks up behind the sofa to reach the key. Tension builds because Frankie is so close to being caught and the man looks suspicious. She manages to reach for the key. With the key she goes back to the locked room and opens the door. The girl in the room is not Brooke. It is another girl that has the same hair and eye colour and looks exactly like Brooke. Frankie helps this girls and then  goes to open another door. She realise's that there are multiple girls that all look the same being held hostage in this house. After searching in four different rooms she eventually finds Brooke. There is then a load noise as the man realises that the keys are gone. Frankie hurry's to free Brooke. They hear footsteps heading towards the room. Brooke sits back down and acts like she's still tied up whilst Frankie hides in the room. The man enters the room to checks all the girls using a spear key. He checks the room and then leaves again locking the door behind him. The two girls escape out the window of the room they are locked in. Throughout the time searching for Brooke within the house, Frankie was filming on her phone. This footage shows all of the other girls trapped in the house. Frankie and Brooke take this footage to the police to get help for all of the other girls trapped in the house. The police investigate, free the other girls and arrest the man for his crimes. 


1 comment:

  1. This is a nice happy ending to your film. Look at how you are going to convey the a) search for Brooke which must take some time if the film is going to take the average 2 hours b) how the girls are not noticed as missing and c) judge the effectiveness of the building of the tension in the trailer to make it interesting. All of these things are vital to the trailer.
    Mrs H

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