Main Task - Synopsis

Synopsis

The film revolves around a young girl called Katie. We find that she leads a normal life, goes to college and lives with her boyfriend. However, behind this lies the sinister truth of her life as we find out that she sees a shadow following her around all the time when she walks through the park. Katie goes off on her path to find out the truth about this, alongside with her (who is another main performer in this film) is her shrink/friend Dr Macbeth. Whilst doing this, Katie finds many things out which shock her to her core and sets off to find peace in her life. You don’t see much bloodshed in this film; however the threatening scenes and plot is what keeps the audience motivated to see more.

*The film is going to be including various serious, real-life issues such as murder, rape and anti-social behaviour which sometimes occur in many teenagers lives from the age of 15 and above but also sometimes starting back from childhood.*

Main Task - Plot

Plot

The story is evolved around an orphaned girl named Katie who has recently developed paranoia about a shadow that she sees every time she goes through the park. However when she is accompanied by another person, the shadow seems to disappear. One night, we see that she is woken up by a sound and gets out of bed to see what happened and finds the shadow standing in the kitchen. She gets terrified in seeing this and falls on the ground and starts to scream. Her boyfriend (Ryan) is woken up by the screaming and runs to help and console her. At this point, she explains to her boyfriend what she has been seeing and shares to him about her nightmares that she has. The boyfriend being worried about her, tells her to see a shrink so that she can talk about her problems and be able to solve them. She becomes good friends with the shrink (Dr Macbeth) and the shrink does end up helping her and she starts to feel a lot calmer than she was before. The shrink advises her to face her fears by going into the park but she will stay behind her just in case she starts to panic.

One evening, they go to the park and Katie still terrified starts to walk down the park with Dr Macbeth walking behind, pretending to be on the phone. All the way down, she doesn’t see anything and doesn’t panic and is felt relieved by not seeing the shadow. When she gets to the playground area, she turns around to see the Dr and sees that she is very far away but gives her a smile to let her know that she is okay. As soon as she turns around, the shadow is standing right in front of her glaring at her and with a shovel lying beside it. She starts to scream and shouts out for help whilst trying to crawl away. The shadow is slowly walking backwards. Dr Macbeth runs towards her and grabs her so that she feels safe. She looks around to see that there is nothing there but just a shovel with blood on it by the swings. The Dr in seeing this starts to get scared and helps Katie to get up and tells her to run. We see them running into Katie’s apartment. Katie’s tells the Dr that she does always seem to see the shadow when she is near the playground. The Dr in hearing this decides to investigate the playground.

The next day, the Dr and Katie go to a library and search through old newspapers and look up on the internet and ask people. The librarian tells them that years ago a young woman disappeared and the last place she was seen going was in the park. Whilst looking through the woman’s history, Katie finds that the woman who went missing was in fact related to her and is shocked to find that she is her mother. Katie is shocked to find this out. The Dr suggests that maybe they dig by the swings where the shovel was lying. That night they go back to the playground again with shovels and start to dig around the swings area. We see them digging and digging when finally they find bones lying there with a wallet next to it. Inside the wallet they find a man’s picture and address in it. They look up the address and finds that the man (Jay) is still living there with his family. They go to his house and confront him about this and under the pressure, he finally cracks and tells them that years ago, him and his friends were in the park when her mother was walking down through the park going home. He tells them that his friends teased her and harassed her. In return she slapped one of them. This angered the boy and he pulled her down to the floor and started to hit her aggressively. One by one they raped and abused her. After, they got a knife and slashed her throat so that she couldn’t tell anyone. They dug a grave by the swings and buried her body.

After hearing this, Katie breaks down and starts to get angry and starts to smash his house. Here he tells her that he didn’t rape her but he also didn’t stop what his friends were doing and was a part of burying her body because he was going to start a business and this would ruin his career, if gone to court, so decided to keep quiet. He later tells them that he walked off in another direction and his friends sped off in car. Later that night, his friend’s bodies were found in a jungle area and the car flipped over assuming that they were in a car accident. Katie tells Jay to come back to the playground with her so that she he can face up to the reality of what he has done. They go back there and see that the bones have disappeared and start to panic. They turn around to find that the shadow is now seen as an actual person but with blood all over her and clothes ripped with dirt all over. She has scars all over face. Seeing this they all start to run when you see that she grabs Jay and puts her hand through his body and tortures him by playing with his heart. She tells him that he knew that when burying her, that she was alive. He starts to scream and tells her that he thought his career and life would be in jeopardy if he stopped burying her. She squeezes his heart and he dies. Katie stops panicking and falls to the ground where she breaks down with the Dr besides her trying to comfort her. She then slowly looks up to see that her mother is walking towards her but doesn’t feel at all scared. Her mother now seen clearer and her wounds starting to heal tells Katie that she is sorry for everything and loves her. Putting her hand over face showing that she is trying to wipe her tears away also tells her that she needs to be strong as she needs to go to her father. Katie looks shocked. Her mother tells her to go to the mental institution where her father has been there for so many years as he thought that both his wife and daughter had died. Then her mother glowing in white goes off the ground and going in circles. The wind blows the Dr and Katie back and when they turn back around, they see that she is gone and its pitch black and silent.

Walking towards the institution Katie is quiet and doesn’t have any emotion on her face. The Dr accompanies her inside and you see her talking to a nurse where Katie is standing there. She sees a bright lit room and walks towards it. Just then the corridor light breaks and goes dark. She gets to the door and looks through the window. She doesn’t see anything and turns back but then stops and in curiosity looks again and is shocked to see a shadow standing behind the door glaring at her through the window. She screams and falls on to the floor.

Main Task - Storyboard

Main Task - Final Screenplay

Paranoia

By Safina Rashid & Aabidah Ali
& Saman Ali
　
　
　
　
Post production script

Sister Productions

C/O

Studio 24

189 Bailing Road

London

England

SE2 9DL

Tel: 01984 287051





OPENING - SISTER PRODUCTIONS LOGO 　


EXT: OUTSIDE THE PARK - NIGHT
　
The camera is placed on the ground and faced towards a pathway. A few seconds later we see someones feet running away from the camera and as they get further away we see that it is a young girl. She drops her bag and stops to get it hesitating to pick it up. She leaves the bag and carries on running away from the camera.
　

EXT: PLAYGROUND - MORNING
　
The camera is focused on the swings from a side angle. The swings are moving slowly from side to side.
　

EXT: OUTSIDE THE PARK - NIGHT
　
The girl is running towards the camera looking scared and tired. She then starts to turn towards a gate where she runs in holding the gate and looking back. She still carries on running into the park where she goes past a tree.

　
EXT: PLAYGROUND - MORNING
　
The camera is zoomed into the roundabout. It then slowly zooms out showing the opening credits. Once fully zoomed out, it shows the whole roundabout. It then starts to zoom in slowly.
　

EXT: PARK - NIGHT
　
The young girl is running in and out of the trees around her. She is constantly looking back.


EXT: LOGS IN PARK - NIGHT
　
The girl run towards some logs. She sits down all worn out and out of breath. The camera zooms in on her where she is still out of breath and is looking around her whilst her facial expression shows that she is scared.
　
Girl is looking around. A Male character is standing behind her. He reaches up his hand and places it on the girl’s shoulder. Girl is shocked and starts to turn her head around.
　
Looking over the boy’s shoulder we see the girl’s head sideways looking over her shoulder. It then shows the same shot but looking from the girl’s face.
　
The girl jumps up turning back to see who it is. The boy jumps over the log. He then grabs a weapon off the floor.
　
The girl is walking backwards and is scared. The boy is also walking towards her holding the weapon in his hand. She gets back towards the log and starts to crouch down.
　
He then starts to bring the weapon forward to hit her. The girl is screaming and puts her head down.
　
The camera is focused on the boy from the girl‘s view. He brings the weapon forward and slashes it across the camera.

　
ENDING - BLACK SCREEN WITH TITLE READING ‘PARANOIA’


Opening credits again shown with director’s names. Distant police sirens in the background.

Main Task - Initial Screenplay

Paranoia

By Safina Rashid & Aabidah Ali
& Saman Ali
　
　
　
　
Post production script

Sister Productions

C/O

Studio 24

189 Bailing Road

London

England

SE2 9DL

Tel: 01984 287051




OPENING - SISTER PRODUCTIONS LOGO


EXT: BLACK SCREEN - NIGHT　
GIRL
(Screaming)
Arghhhhhh!!

　
EXT: OUTSIDE THE PARK - NIGHT
　
A young girl has fallen on the floor and looks up. She is crying hysterically. She pulls herself up by holding onto the bars slowly as she is trembling. She starts to run.
She runs into the park through the gate.


EXT: MORRELL AVENUE - MORNING
　
We see a long shot of the street with young people walking up and down. Everyone is smiling and laughing.
　

EXT: PARK - NIGHT
　
A young boy with his face covered wearing dark clothes with a hood on his head is running in the park.
　

EXT: PARK - NIGHT
　
The girl is running through the field in and out of trees frantically. She is still crying and worried.
　

EXT: PLAYGROUND - MORNING
　
Children are playing on the swings and laughing. The camera moves into focus just on the swings. Kids laughter is echoing in the background.

　
EXT: PARK - NIGHT
　
The girl is hiding behind a tree. The boy puts his hand over the girls shoulder. The girl who is shocked and scared starts to turn around moving her head slowly to see behind her.

Girl turns around facing the boy. She is scared and starts to scream. She starts to walk backwards with the boy moving towards her.
　

EXT: PLAYGROUND - MORNING
　
The roundabout is going around slowly with children on top. Again we hear children’s laughter echoing in the background.
　

EXT: PARK - NIGHT
　
Girl falls on the floor and starts to crawl backwards. Boy is slowly moving closer towards her.
Boys hand is shown. In his hand is a knife.

Boy puts his hand and holds on to the knife tightly. Girl’s scream is heard in the background.

Girl’s point of view is shown with the boy standing in front of her.

He slashes the knife across the screen.

Blood is splattered on the screen.

　
ENDING - BLACK SCREEN WITH TITLE READING ‘PARANOIA’
　
Distant police sirens in the background.

Main Task - Production Introduction

My Production

For my production I have chosen to do a horror film. I will produce a 2minute opening scene which will show an act of horror so that the audience will know what kind of genre my film is. I have decided that my film’s target audience will be 15 and above. This is because I think that from that age they will feel attracted to it and because of the gruesome effects that I will have in my film, it will not be suitable for anyone under that age.

In this project, I will also have the help of my group members who are Aabidah Ali and Saman Ali. I will work together with the to produce my film but the written work will be mine individually.

To produce this opening sequence, I will have to decide on many factors which important to my production which are the plot of the story, the characters, and the location of where the film is goig to be made.

Main Task - My Target Audience

Target Audience

 

 

Age

My target audience age is going to be 15 and above. This is because the movie that I am making is suitable and has a bbfc rating 15. This is due to the movie including moderate violence/ sex related scenes in the film.  It may also feature drug related issues but cannot emphasise too strongly on the point and encourage it.  I chose this age group because as teenagers, they tend to be more interested in more violent films which include more serious types of subjects but also cover the lifestyle of teenager’s e.g. kidulthood/adulthood. Research shows that teenagers from the age of 15 are interested in watching horror films and are quite attracted by it.

Gender

My aim is to attract both females and males; however my main audience will be in particular males. This film contains violence, gruesome and bloody scenes which is what mainly attracts teenage boys. Also girls may be likely to be interested in this as well due to the main actor being a female and the story revolving around her. Back when the film industry started it was typically stereotyped with a male lead being in the focus, having to face and a problem and at the end with him usually saving the day like a hero. Whereas, in the recent years there have been more films with a woman being the prime focus and being shown in different forms which have only been played by men in the past. Teenagers in specific have mostly been given side roles where they play alongside a main actor but are not the main lead. However, this film is based on a female teenager in a horror film which is going to be quite complex in showing which is the target audience.

Nationality

The film will be shot in the U.K in various locations. My main aim is to mainly attract the people living there. Also, the film is going to be spoken in the language English so it’s probably most likely going to be watched by those who understand and speak the language. But as I do wish to attract people from all cultures, I will be applying subtitles in the different languages and also will be getting people from different countries to speak over the film lyrics in specifics languages so that they also understand. This also benefits those people who have are from a British nationality but cannot speak or understand the language English. However, seeing as the cast will be speaking in a British accent and so people from outside Britain may not be able to understand the whole concept of the film due to the language.

Sexuality 

My film will not be discriminating against any individuals and so the sexuality of the audience doesn’t matter. Anyone, whatever their sexuality is, is allowed to watch the film. However in the film, there is a relationship portrayed which is of a male and female being in a relationship suggesting that they are both straight and that they are attracted to the other gender. But that doesn’t mean that the film wouldn’t appeal to other sexualities.

Ethnicity

I hope that the film attracts different people from all over the world as I do wish that it would appeal to everyone and so everyone benefits from this. So the film doesn’t have a main ethnicity group to which I would think it would appeal to in particular. I did wish to use actors/actresses from around the film industry worldwide. However if I did do this, I would then have to consider the possibilities that my target audience wouldn’t watch it if they haven’t seen something involving these different actors/actresses before and so may not feel attracted to the film. Therefore I decided it would be best if I used a British known cast which my target audience is already familiar with.

Social/Economic group

I would think that my film would appeal to the working class in particular but also the middle class too. This is because due to some research I found that the genre horror is most watched by the working and middle class. I wouldn’t expect anyone from the upper class to watch this film due to them being from such wealthy background who wouldn’t normally go to cinema in general so watching a horror film wouldn’t really be an attraction for them.  

Fans

I hope that those people who are interested in scary and gory films including supernatural beings will be attracted to my film. This is because my film is going to be about something unnatural which is terrifying to the viewers but also believable so that they don’t think that its fake and not real. They have to really get into the film so that they will feel more interested in it and carry on watching the film the whole way.