1.9 Final Idea

My final idea-

A short horror film, with a running time of between 12-15 minutes, based on the feedback from a professional.

My film involves a group of friends that are visiting one of the friends holiday homes, in Beer coast, Devon. The group has been friends since primary school therefore they are all very close to one another. Two of the friends are in a relationship and the rest are in relationships outside of the group.

They are all sitting down one evening to watch a horror film. when they go to bed that night, something peculiar happens to one of the friends, which forces him to wake up in the dead of night. After that sighting, Jay played by Charlie Holmes, begins to act very odd towards his friends, he joins his friends to play a game of scrabble, but finds it hard to concentrate and communicate. after having a small argument with his girlfriend, Ruby, played by Amelia Marriott, he storms off into the kitchen, where he is last seen. Ruby goes to check on him after hearing glass smash everywhere, to see that the back door is left open. After thinking nothing of it, she returns to the lounge, to continue playing scrabble with her friends.

Ruby gets up the next night, to go to the bathroom, where she hears the door knob twisting, to find that everyone in the house was tucked up in bed, fast asleep. So who was it? or what was it? Ruby runs back to her room, to ring Jay to see where he is, the call connects but Jay doesn't say a word, and the sounds on the other end of the call are unknown.

The following day, Ruby is distressed and tries to find comfort within the arms of her friend, Skyla played by Skye Ratcliffe-Moore. An object rolls out of no where and hits Ruby's foot, she runs up the stairs to her room, where she sits at the end of her bed to reflect on the weird experiences that she is having within the house. She turns to her side to see that a china doll is sat beside her, staring right back at her. She screams and the door slams. Skyla runs up to check on her, to find that Amelia is not there.

Skyla runs out the front door, after being warned not to do so, adding herself to the list of disappearance. Sienna played by Leah Cameron, begins to have a panic attack where Molly reassures her and encourages her to take a shower to calm down.

Molly goes up to check on Leah as she seems to be taking a very long time, to find that the shower is still running but no one is in the bathroom. Molly goes back downstairs, where she crouches into a ball, rocking forwards and backwards, repeatedly saying "this is a bad dream", she looks up and the china dolls are surrounding her in a circle, her friends didn't disappear or leave the house, they became a china doll. all at once the dolls grabbed Molly's neck and strangled her to death, but this time, she didn't become a doll, it turns out that molly previously was a doll, but you can only change once, Molly was the master doll, who created every incidence within the house.



Title Scene-
Moving (panning) shot/ establishing shot. Low Saturation, of the house.


Scene 1-

• Watching a horror film- Annabelle
• Group of friends

Scene 2- 

• Outside shot of the house
• flash of lightening, cuts to the inside of the house, shows every room of the house that night- show everyone sleeping- time skipping (paranormal activity)

Scene 3-

• Everyone is in bed, asleep. Show photograph of group of friends
• Charlie has a nightmare and suddenly wakes up. POV. Looks at the end of the bed.
• Doll at the end of the bed facing the same way he is.
• Dolls head turns in a 3 point turn, crash zoom on the girls face. rubs eyes/ lens- nothing there
• Goes back to sleep

Scene 4- 

• Breakfast time.
• Everyone is playing a board game (Scrabble) 
• Charlie is the last to wake up and join the rest of the group
• Not communicating with anyone 

Scene 5- 

• Amelia and Charlie have an argument
• Door slams upstairs *silence*
• Snooker ball rolls on wooden floor in the kitchen
• Charlie storms off into the kitchen
• Smashes a glass/ china mug
• Back door is left open
• Amelia POV runs to the kitchen to see what just happened, sees the door is open and assumes he has gone off to calm down.
• Amelia goes back into the lounge to continue playing a game.
• The door under the stairs is ajar, with a china dolls leg sticking out. 
• A note is placed around the dolls ankle 
• Leah asks after Charlie

Scene 6-

• Leah feels a breeze, goes to close the back door in the kitchen.
• Sees the doll in the kitchen, along with the note.

Scene 7- 

• Time lapse for 1 hour. Show sunset and the friends playing in the house
• Everyone goes to bed 
• Show the photograph of the friends, X Charlie
• Amelia goes to the toilet
• Door knobs starts twisting
• Amelia opens the door, expecting someone to be outside the door.
• Amelia checks everyone is in their room, to find they are all asleep.
• Rings Charlie to see where he is 
• He answers but a music box is playing and no one talks
• Drops her phone on the floor

Scene 8- 

• Amelia is begging her friends to help her find Charlie.

Scene 9- 

• Snooker ball hits Amelia's foot
• Runs upstairs to her room and sits at the end of her bed.
• Turns to her right, a doll (Charlie) is sat staring back at her
• She screams
• The door slams
• Camera cuts to Skye's face, staring up the stairs.
• POV. Skye runs upstairs to check on her.
• A note is left on the dolls (Amelia) wrist *I dare you*

Scene 10-

• Skye challenges the note and leaves the house
• As she opens the door, she instantly changes into another china doll
• The doll is sat on the door step
• The next note is posted through the letter box *I warned you*

Scene 11- 

• Leah's panicing
• Molly reassures her
• Leah takes a shower to calm down
• POV Leah in the shower?

Scene 12-

• Leah sees a china dolls hand (Skye) pressed up against the glass
• Camera cuts to an empty shower

Scene 13- 

• Time lapse of Molly in the lounge on her own, getting agitated. 
• Shouting Leah's name. No reply *a little girl laughing*
• POV. Goes to check on Leah
• The shower is still running
• A china doll (Leah) is lying wet on the bathroom floor

Scene 14-

• Lights flickering
• Wind chimes
• Branches hitting the window
• The Photograph has burned out
• Molly crouches on the floor, looks up
• All the dolls, surrounding her

Scene 15-

• The dolls grab Molly's neck and strangle her. 
• POV of the dolls.

Scene 16-

• Close up of the cracked doll (Jump Scare)

Credits

Final Shot- 

• Track back out of the door, close the door behind. POV. 
• Show the house and the scenery