Logline Of The Films Concept And Ideas

The films Concept and Ideas

·       Our original ideas were that we wanted our film to be a thriller/horror genre.

·       We then looked at inspiration such as Paranormal Activity and “Disturbia”, to discover that we wanted to use a creepy stranger.

·       We then looked at what made “Disturbia” scary and appeal to us. We found that it was the idea of the teenager being insecure in his own home.

·       We then looked at a few things that would scare us most if we were home alone, and top of the list was a power cut.

·       We thought about having a dog as the teenagers only companion (like in “I am Legend”), but discovered that this would have brought a distraction to what was happening in the storyline.

·       We also thought about including a creepy neighbour to knock on the door to tell him about the power issues, however we decided against this, as we wanted to show the character as totally alone.

·       We liked the idea of just showing the teenagers average day, making dinner, watching television and spending time on his phone. We thought that this would get the target audience relating to the character.

·       An idea that we really liked was using a flash forward. This meant that we could show that something bad was going to happen, but then why it happened would be revealed in the film.

·       We came up with the idea of introducing the creepy stranger by having him walking down the stairs; this meant that his identity wouldn’t have been known at the beginning of the film.