Key Scenes

The first key scene will be Nathan being bullied by a bully called Scott and all of Scott’s posse.

This emphasizes the fact that Nathan gets bullied on a daily basis. This scene will take place at a

school in the daytime. This scene shows us how much of an outcast Nathan is and how much

everyone looks up to Scott. It gives the audience the comparison of Scott and Nathan. Scott’s

group of friends is immediately seen as the antagonist. At this stage the audience will feel sorry

for Nathan as they don’t know his true character yet. We get to know the characters.

Nathan discovers social media and realises he can hide behind a screen to threaten his bullies. He

realises he can do this on an anonymous account. This part of the film will show his obsession with

destruction and killing, which shows a darker side of Nathan leaving the audience to question him.

In this scene Nathan starts to terrorise his bullies through social networking, this will show his

metal collapse and he is so caught up in his mission to get back at the people who are ruining his

life. These scenes will be filmed in Nathans bedroom, this will let the audience see how he hide

behind the screen when trying to attack them, we want the audience to sympathize with Nathan

in his situation but also be confused and be put off him slightly.

As his terrorising goes on he decides he must kill all of his enemies, making a kill list from there

accounts on social media, finding out were they will be and where they live he hunts them down

and kills them all. Using various places like parks, school and their own homes he finds them

murdering them in gruesome ways.

After killing his bullies off one by one, Nathan is followed home by the police. Nathan starts to

panic. This leads Nathan to killing himself in front of his terrified mother. The sirens will be

flashing through the window as Nathan kills himself which will add to the mood of the room at the

time. The screen will finish with a black screen. This will leave the audience feeling scared when

they walk out of the cinema meaning they will tell their friends about how scary the film was

which will make their friends want to see it aswell.

Locations

A list of locations we will use to film our scenes that will feature in our trailer. 

• House - To film Nathan in his own home, to see what he is like when he his by him self and not being watched by bullies. It will mainly be in Nathans room that we will be filming but we will sometimes venture out. This is where Nathan will start his social media terror. It will also be where he is playing his violent video games that give him ideas on how to kill his school bullies
• Park - some of the murder scenes will be taking place in the park. We will just be filming the build up to the murder as we don't want to give away any spoilers. The park is a spooky environment witch suits our horror genre very well. If the lighting is right in the park, it will be the perfect location for our murder scenes.
• School - The place Nathan will be filmed getting bullied by Scott. This is quite a stereotypical place to film bullying and that is why it is a great place to film it. The audience will expect bullying to take place at a school, the surprise will be how Nathan turns from being a nice young school boy to a serial killer.
• Inside Of Car -  This is how Nathan gets around. He is seen a lot in his car listening to strange mysterious music.

Props

When recording the scenes in school we will be using everyday items, this will consist of things like laptops, phones, headphones, books. This will let the audience see that they are normal people and for the audience to also be able to relate to the lifestyle of the characters in the trailer. When the characters are in school you will be able to see that they have a specific role in that school and also that a lot of the pupils are dependent on technology,

Technology will be a key part of our film so it is a significant prop in our trailer

When recording in Nathans room and outside of the school environment, the characters will be using similar props as they would be in school like phones, headphones but as well as different items like cigarettes, lighters and some may be in cars, this shows there everyday lifestyle and how they act outside of school.

Nathans bedroom will be shown in our trailer, when recording this technology will be scene throughout the clip including computer/laptops, games console and TV. There will be gaming posters on the wall as well. This is to show Nathans enclosed lifestyle and how he just lives in his room playing video games, this will let the audience see that he is not a popular boy and alienates himself from others by living in and being obsessed with his virtual world. 

When Nathan is killing off his victims the props will be things like Knives, baseball bats, rope and the mask he will be wearing, the mask will be important as it is hiding his identity, and giving him a more sinister look. This will make him seem like more of a serial killer and not like a 'normal' person.

4 original outline ideas

Idea 1)

- 5 Characters

- 3 Male

- 2 Female

- 5 friends round someones house, having fun, drinking and taking drugs. Paranormal events start to occur. They don't know if its the drugs hitting them or if is real. Most likely to be filmed from a POV angle. This means the audience feel as if they are there. (Paranormal Horror)

Idea 2)

- 5 main characters

- Big party of people

- After a spooky Halloween party, 5 of the people from the party go back to a mates house. They have a few drinks and are having fun, then one of the 5 gets an Ouigi bored out of the closet. Things start to go seriously wrong. (Paranormal Horror)

Idea 3)

-Two Main characters

- lots of background characters

-  A boy who sees his home as his only safe place from all the bully's at his school gets a social media account. This means he gets bullied even when he is at home. Boy then goes to seek revenge on people who have bullied him all these years. (Slasher Horror)

Idea 4)

- 6 Characters

- 3 Female

- 3 Male

- 6 friends go camping in a big forest in Canada. The friends decide to go for a walk in the forest, They get split up and one of them gets bitten by a spider. This leaves them possessed and goes after there friends 1 by 1.

Plot / video

A video of the 3 of us explaining our basic plot outline, we speak about how the film will unfold in 3 main points by just stating the main character and how the other characters will come into play and how he (Nathan) deals with his problems 

Continuity Editing - Final project

Storyboard

Audience research

Qualitative audience research engages with relatively small numbers of individuals in order to gain a complex, detailed and in-depth understanding of their experiences and response to watching a performance

While quantitative research engages with larger numbers that have a statistical relationship to a population as a whole, qualitative research provides descriptions of the responses of particular audiences members to particular performances at a particular time and place

What this allows is the opportunity to delve below and beyond surface responses and obtain a heightened understand of meanings, motivations, feelings and experiences.

The methodologies used for qualitative audience research are varied, starting with tools such as the interview and focus group that seek to elicit detailed, verbal responses. These can be analysed with techniques such as content analysis (coding and counting what is said) and discourse analysis (looking in detail at how things are said)

Pearl and Dean audience research 

FAME (Film Audience Measurement & Evaluation) is the cinema industry's key marketing tool for analysing film viewing and cinema going behavior. The FAME survey was launched in 2007 and replaced the industry's old currency CAVIAR. 

Going into its eighth year, FAME covers all aspects of film consumption - the experience of cinema, DVD, on-demand, trailers, advertising, reviews, 3D, digital, information sourcing, social media, piracy and more. 

The FAME survey is extremely targeted, interviewing only those who have been to the cinema in the last 6 months, thus ensuring that all respondents have cinema and film experiences. With a sample size of 3,300 respondents aged 7+, FAME is able to provide in-depth insight into the behavior of both adults and children. FAME also asks parents with children aged 4 - 6 yrs about the cinema going and film consumption of their children, allowing for analysis of this audience also. The FAME 2013 research was conducted independently by CrowdDNA. 

Film treatment

TREATMENT FOR MOVIE TTRAILER PRODUCTION
PRODUCTION COMPANY NAME: WWP Studios	PRODUCTION TEAM MEMBERS: Max Josh Jack
TITLE OF PRODUCTION: (ideas) SlashTag Social Slasher Media Murderer	GENRE: Slasher Horror
SYNOPOSIS: Nathan goes to school everyday, awaiting a day of torment by a pupil at his school Scott, this al changes when Nathan discovers what he can do with social networking, turning violent he puts a stop to it
DETAILED NARATIVE OUTLINE: Nathan was an average, quiet, lonely student. Nathan gets bullied everyday by people at school. Being a quiet and strange child, he had no social life and spent most of his time playing video games, especially enjoying the killing side of games. The constant bullying at school drives Nathan to the limit causing him to want to kill his classmates. Discovering social media, he uses certain websites to hide behind his computer terrorizing his bullies, threatening them and their families, the account is unknown and nobody knows who is doing this. Creating a death list, he uses the networks torment them and then eventually hunt them down and kill them. Killing off the main bullies, he them becomes obsessed with killing people and then turns to kill family. this doesn't turn out to be as easy as he first thought, his family find out its him and they try to do something about it. but they find out too late and before they know it, they've been killed.
INTENTIONAL TARGET AUDIENCE:	KEY CHARADTERS: Nathan and Scott
MISE-EN-SCENE: Lighting: ·      Natural daylight and lights at night Costume: ·      Baseball cap, parka jacket, jeans and trainers, cigarettes ·      Glasses, shirt, cargo trousers, smart shoes, greasy hair	LOCATIONS: School Garden Park Bedroom House

Nathan & Scott Character profiles

Rough plot

Nathan was an average, quiet,lonely student. Nathan gets bullied everyday by people at school. Being a quiet and strange child, he had no social life and spent most of his time playing video games, especially enjoying the killing side of games

The constant bullying at school drives Nathan to the limit causing him to want to kill his classmates. discovering social media, he uses certain websites to hide behind his computer terrorizing his bullies, threatening them and their families,the account is unknown and nobody knows who is doing thi

Creating a death list, he uses the networks torment them and then eventually hunt them down and kill them. Killing off the main bullies, he them becomes obsessed with killing people and then turns to kill family. this doesn't turn out to be as easy as he first thought, his family find out its him and they try to do something about it. but they find out too late and before they know it, they've been killed

Paranormal Activity characters & the 5 theorists

Rough character profiles