4.2: The Storylines

The Story Line

Opening the story with a female damsel in distress which explores the depths of the cellar. Her death leads to many murder mysteries and what is actually happening in this cellar. A group of archaeologists uncover the secrets of the catacombs that lay beneath the cellar. 

Who

At the start we decided on a young female role to show the damsel in distress side of the horror conventions. This sort of character would be played by Emily Perkins who features in films such as Insomnia (2002) and Ginger Snaps (2000).

For one of the archaeologists we was thinking of an actress such as Jodie Foster as she appears in physiological horrors such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Panic Room (2002).

Where

We chose a cellar as many horrors such as The Conjuring and The Hole. This features many horror conventions such as dark places, cobwebs and white bed sheets. 

When

It doesn't specifically have to be dark as in the night time as the cellar/basement usually is a dark gloomy place anyway so the filming can be done whenever we need. The room should be dark with low lighting to set the dramatic horror mood. 

Our New Storyline

During editing our first movie, we decided to change the plot as it didn't work and didn't look like a horror movie. We changed all of our old work and started from scratch with a new plot and setting. The plot is as follows;

A new family have moved into a regular house. Little do they know that they have moved into a nightmare. When the mother starts to notice strange happenings in the house, she begins to investigate finding out her son is causing all the problems. The family begins to fall apart, but is it really the son or someone else?... 

In the opening scene, we will show the mother and son as the father isn't a protagonist in this film. We decided this because it narrows the actors down so the audience can become more attached to two protagonists rather than a lot creating a more emotional bond. By portraying a female protagonist, this brings the females which we researched to be the main viewers of horror movies like our new movie, creating a bigger chance for a bigger audience. By casting a female as the main person, this gives chance for the female audiences to relate to the character as many viewers were between 14 years - 24 years which may be the age for young mothers or having siblings of the same age as the boy cast with the horrible curse. The audiences will see glimpses of the 'doppelganger' type ghost which haunts the house in the wardrobe and the stairway which isn't obvious but when seen will create a jump scare, a main convention of present horror movies. This will create tension and make the audience want to know the history of the house or what the doppelganger is, or what it is. This will make them want to watch the hidden boy again meaning more views for our movie and also the jump scares will make audiences want to share it with friends for the nervous laughter which horror movies bring when scared in a group.

Instead of the original actors we would cast someone like Ty Simpkins who stared as the possessed boy in Incidious (2010) making him 4 years older in our movie.

For the mother, we would cast Lili Taylor who stars as the mother in The Conjuring, a horror movie a lot like our new plot. She looks like a mature normal mother which is why we chose her.