IDEA 2 - Horror

 Concept idea 2 - Horror

Outline of narrative: The second genre that I wanted to work with was the horror genre. Horrors tend to follow a more stereotypical narrative and tend to be predictable and can be considered more gory than thrillers at times. The opening scene is located within a boarding school. There is multiple boarding houses across a very lonely country side area. The scene starts with with multiple kids leaving the location saying goodbye to all their friends. They push their way across the stairs and completely disregard the old lady cleaning the stairwell.  She stays silent while she is pushed about and litter is thrown next to her. Although she doesn't react she remembers who this was. What is left is darkness and a boarding house, it is quiet and there are very few kids who are actually staying at this house for the weekend. There is then a small clip of the transition from evening light to complete darkness. We then as a viewer get a close up of a clock which reads 1am. The house is silent and the only thing heard is a few pieces of laughter from teens upstairs and the ticking of a clock. Suddenly the lights of the whole house go off and everyone loses electricity. The only people on campus are 9 kids and an adult supervisor who is no where to be scene within this current moment. There is a scream from a boy and the scene goes pitch black. The electricity is back on and all is okay. But when one of the girls of the house heads down to the kitchen at 3am to get some water, the kitchen is covered in blood. Walls, surfaces and the door which has blood running under it. This is the ending of the opening scene, and the viewers are left on a complete cliffhanger.

Location: This scene is located within a boarding school and one of the boarding houses which is old and mysterious (setting the scary stereotypical horror narrative). There is two set locations where the scene take place, outside the boarding house and within the boarding house. It is simple yet effective. The darkness of the scene connotes an unknown effect and the idea of mystery. I want there to be a few clips of the boarding house itself and a large look around of inside so that viewers are able to get a sense and awareness of the atmosphere. I want it to be slow with some dark non diegetic sound behind it so that it can make watchers uncomfortable and anxious so that theres not a nice feeling around it. My aim of this atmosphere and location is to connote a sense of danger so that people feel its unsafe to be there, again creating that uncomfortable juxtaposition somewhere thats stereotypically safe is not at all.

Props: The use of props is quite simplistic within the scene, but I want everything within the house to look old and make viewers feel uncomfortable. When the young girl finds the blood filled kitchen, I want there to be an emphasis on the knives within the kitchen. This connotes the danger and overall creates a juxtaposition as somewhere which is suppose to be safe and loving for children is actually the opposite and puts them in danger and at risk of their lives.

Future narrative: The future narrative of this would be the life of a 'normal' boarding school which actually isn't as normal as it comes across. I want the opening scene to be a scary opener that leaves our viewers with many questions about what happened and who is behind this. The story goes on as a murder mystery where kids continuously go missing on the weekends when there is less staff on hand and less teenagers around to catch it. In specifics there is a focus on the female cleaner who is quiet but turns out to be the killer of this narrative. It is unexpected and goes against the stereotypes of what a killer and smart murderer is like. The grumpy house master is accused as he isn't very smiley or happy when it comes to the care of the teenagers. It turns out to be that teenagers who die and are never seen again, are kids who have disregarded the hardworking cleaners of the school and disrespect her. Kids who don't treat her respectfully end up gone.

Opening scene: It starts out where we only get a small glimpse of the cleaner which makes it even more unexpected when we finally find out who did it to these kids. As no one pays attention to her its more expected that a focused upon character did it. Thats why I think its so much better to have an unexpected character as then it could be anyone. The kids come across as careless and full of energy paying no attention to the elders around them, which reinforces the narrative and their future.