Throughout Stage 3, I hope to achieve an outcome revolving around a horror film idea I have. Using photography, film and possibly a bit of animation I hope to accomplish several series of stills, a short trailer and some short clips from this horror film idea. These skills will be invaluable for the BA (Hons) Film & Television Studies course I hope to progress to.
For one of my interviews with a UCAS university choice, I was asked to pitch a screenplay. It was then that I started to develop an idea for a horror film.
It’s a supernatural
horror focusing on the conflict between a newly-wed couple and a vengeful
spirit of a drowned girl.
In a semi-rural
English town, a newly-wed couple move into a new home to start a new chapter in
their lives. They soon discover that the house is not all it seems to be, as it
is home to a vengeful spirit of a young girl who is hell-bent on defending the
house against its new residents. She was the daughter of a young woman who was
left by her husband for a younger girl. This left the woman in an emotionally
vulnerable state of mind, which led her to start to rely heavily on alcohol.
Her daughter was neglected and mistreated and eventually the woman cracked and
drowned her young daughter, whilst reciting the ‘Patience is a virtue, virtue
is a grace, Grace is a little girl who wouldn’t wash her face’. As she died a
violent death, Grace’s spirit remained in the realm of the living to terrorise
new occupants of her house. The couple have to somehow find a way to stop
Grace, holding on to their humanity and each other as they do so. The more they
investigate, the more truths about the house’s history they find. This leads
them to believe that they only way to stop Grace, is by killing the woman that
originally killed her- Grace’s mother, Heather. This idea was initially titled 'Grace' (stylised, 'G R A C E').
For this idea, I was inspired by horror films, such as: 'The Ring', 'Ju-on: The Grudge' and 'The Woman In Black', as well as the supernatural, Gothic genres themselves.
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