Proposal - Structure and Narrative

My Proposal

For my narrative I want to expand on the idea of obsession, having a character being obsessed with another. I believe that following a teenage girl would work best for this as it would emphasise her sense of vulnerability.

The USP would be that the Best Friend is actually the one with the obsession



Summary

• unknown antagonist has an obsession with the protagonist 
• Protagonist continuously notices a shadow following her and senses someone is there.  She receives calls and messages from an unknown source 
• Frequency of attacks increases
• Protagonist locks herself in at home and calls her best friend in fright as she feels someone may want to hurt her
• Discovers the best friend is the one that is obsessed with her 
• Screen goes black, screams can be heard

Act 1

• Middle of the night, we see someone cutting up photographs of the same girl and stroking them
• we are unable to see the characters face and the interior room is dimly light with a single spot light
• It is the next morning, we are introduced to the female protagonist, possibly a teenage girl, who is in her room getting ready to go out 
• She leaves the house with her headphones in, we see a figure in the far background walking 
• That night when she gets home, she answers a phone call from an unknown number, the line is silent 

Act 2

• The protagonist is curious as to who had called her the previous night 
• Friend comes round to her house 
• She tells her what happened 
• They sleep in separate rooms 
• Protagonist surfaces during the night to suddenly see the faint outline of a figure in the corner of her room, frightened and unable to move she closes her eyes thinking it must be a dream 
• Wakes up next morning frightened by the unnerving dream she had last night,  the friend thinks she is seeing things 

Act 3

• Now everytime the main character goes anywhere she feels as if she is being followed 
• We cut back to the dark room we saw in the first act and see a wall covered in photos of the protagonist and the silhouette of someone sitting in a chair staring at them.
• That night protagonist is home alone and gets freaked out by small things, relieved to see her friend knocking on the door and lets her in 
• They talk for a while until the friend says she has to go home, as she leaves the power cuts
• lights turn back on to see the 'best friend' is the one obsessed with her 
• Screams can be heard as the camera slowly pans back from the house and into darkness

EJ

Ewans's Proposal

The overall film:

plot overview:

• One heist leader brings together 4 other strangers
• They are set together with the mission of completing the given heist
• The setup and planning is followed closely
• They run into trouble before starting the heist, with the police and small crimes
• They begin to execute the heist
• Key point of the film: never go in with someone who has more to loose then you do
• They get caught, shut into the shop they are robbing
• The one who has more to loose gets nervous... kills and runs
• Fights break out between the heist members
• Two heist members end up shooting the other two of the heist members
• The two escape, but it is unclear how

The Trailer:

Structure:

• 3 Acts
• Act 1: The characters are established, as well as the heist job.
• Act 2: Shots from the heist are shown, presenting the problem the heist members face
• Act 3: A suspenseful montage of action scenes to end on the outline of a body collapsing

Storyline elements to include: 

• Relations between characters
• The planning of the heist
• The problem they are faced with
• Death of several characters.... but not sure who
• Action scenes of the heist
• 'Never go in with someone who has more to loose than you do'

Adam's Proposal

Outline for the plot of the film

• AI is created, extremely lifelike does all your own bidding
• Film centres on a normal family who get one, contains mum, day, children?
• At first all is perfect, AI is doing its job well and family are happy
• One day makes a mistake and the father hits her
• This continues for a while
• Eventually the creator finds out and tries to help/offer support to the robot
• Gives the robot the ability to defend itself
• Next time it happens, it attacks back
• A fight breaks out, the robot easily overpowers them
• Accidentally kills one - doesn't know it's own strength
• Then runs away OR decides to kill itself

Trailer Narrative - Follows a three act structure

Act 1

• Starts with a press conference, creator introducing the robot and what it can/can't do. VO through parts of Act 1
• Shows the family buying a robot and bringing it home
• Robot doing its job well; shown cleaning etc

Act 2

• Show robot make a mistake and being hit, show a scared expression on AI
• Robot with creator, looking at each other with an emotional hug

Act 3

• Montage, including:
• shots of the fight
• creator rewiring the robot
• different shots of abuse; maybe different forms?
• shots of screaming/crying etc
• final shot of montage would be the robot running directly towards camera
• Cut to black
• Titles come up
• Past titles scene? - back in confrence with creator answering a question, foreshadowing the film