The Process In Developments Of The Film

The Process In Developments Of The Film

We started out with the idea that we wanted to make our film about a teenage boy that is home alone - who goes about his daily routine (tv, eating food ect.), but strange things happen, such as noises from around the house and the lights turning off. We decided that it was going to be a ghostly horror film, as we were inspired by the film “Paranormal Activity”. We therefore wanted to incorporate the character (at some point) to find the kitchen chairs lying on the floor creating a symbol, which we then thought we could use the symbol as the logo of the film and have it come up in various other parts of the film, which is an idea that appeared in “Zodiac”. We also wanted to use an idea from “I am Legend”, where by the main character has a dog as his accomplish. That way we would be able to get the dogs reaction to what was going on around him.

We planned that the beginning of the film is a flash forward to what will happen later on. So after about two minutes we planned that the film would then jump back to earlier that day. 

After a few weeks of thought and more planning we decided that we wanted the threat to be human instead of a ghost. We thought that this would help give us a wider range of camera shots, including the point of view shot. With this we would be able to give the impression that the teenager is being watched, which is an idea found in many horror films. Because of this decision we therefore needed to take out the kitchen chairs. We also thought that using a human as the threat would make it more believable and that our target audience would find it easier to relate to and imagine. We still liked the idea of using the teenager as the main character and also using the flash forward, as this made the film a little different from the rest. We did make a few changes of what the character would be doing in the house and we also decided not to use the dog, as we wanted to make the character completely on his own.

Overall I feel that we made positive changes to the film. I think that the changes we made, gave the film a more realistic feel, which hopefully therefore made it more believable and helped attract our target audience.