PRE PRODUCTION

Pitch

My film is of the horror comedy genre. The plot is based on the summer holiday of six teenagers who are terrorised by an axe wielding psychopath wearing a cardboard box on his head. As the film progresses he clumsily, but brutally, picks off each teenager one by one as they struggle to stop him. Eventually it climaxes with the final battle between the last teenager and the psychopathic box man as he tries to murder his last victim. The teenager manages to set alight the cardboard box and the murderer is forced to take it off, revealing his face. He turns out to be an old man who worked at the teenager’s local supermarket, stacking boxes. The teenage victims all troubled this man and lost him his job. Since then he swore to someday take his revenge on them. The last remaining teenager manages to defeat the murderer by knocking him from the building they were fighting in. A year later the traumatised teenager has moved from his home town to a nice little village. He has got a job at the local supermarket stacking boxes. One day at work he hears a bang, he goes to explore. The film ends with him finding all the stacked boxes have got the same scary face drawn on them as the axe wielding murderer he thought he had defeated...
The title sequence shows the murderer kill his first victim. He attacks the teenager in the comfort of their own home. He stalks the victim until he is spotted and a comic chase ensues. The murderer eventually catches him and kills him.


Treatment

Camera pans the room until it reaches a teenage boy sitting on a computer chair playing Call of Duty 2. The boy heckles the computer getting into the game. The camera does a close up of the game and the boy kills an enemy, shouting with joy as he does. The camera cuts to a side view of the boy as he shouts again after another successful kill. The camera cuts to a mid shot of the boy’s body and face. Suddenly a loud bang is heard and the boy looks very shocked. A close up of the boy’s face shows his scared expression. The camera then cuts to the other side of the boy shown before; the shot also includes the open door. The camera cuts sharply past the boy staring at the door and into the dark doorway. The camera then cuts back to the side view. The boy gets up and exits down the stairs. The camera cuts upwards, giving a view of the boy slowly walking down the stairs. The camera cuts to a shot of the boy walking along the first floor corridor. The murderer is standing in the bathroom doorway wearing a box on his head with a scary face scribbled on with a marker pen, he is clutching a hatchet. The boy doesn’t notice and walks past and starts to walk down the second flight of stairs. The camera cuts again but this time of a shot looking up the stairs. The axe murderer follows, but ends up walking into the wall due his lack of sight with the box on his head. The camera cuts to the bottom of the stairs looking up; the boy hears the bang of the murderer walking into the wall and turns round. After seeing the murderer he starts to runs. The boy runs past the camera screaming and the murderer, after recovering, follows. Camera cuts in to the living room were the boy jumps dramatically behind the kitchen counter and starts whimpering. The camera pans to the doorway were the murderer slowly walks in, stops then looks left and right. The murderer runs his finger down the hatchets blade, and then swings it around madly as if practising martial arts. The camera cuts to a close up of the boy’s worried face and he lets out a little scream as he watches the murderer swinging the hatchet. The camera goes to a close up of the murderer and his heads immediately turns to where the boy is. A Constantia shot of the boy craw away from the murderer. The camera cuts to a two shot showing the murderer lift his axe ready to strike. He swings the blade down but stops just before it hits and starts laughing, the boy shrieks. “Got ya!” the murderer says. Then he swings it down fully this time at the screaming boy. The screen goes black and a sound of crushing flesh and bones is heard and the screams stop. The title of the film appears on the screen.


Script

INT. “Victim’s” room - late night
It is a modest home in the suburbs where, if anything bad was to happen, it would be unlikely that anyone would notice.
The “Victim’s” room has a book shelf packed to the brim, the TV is placed on a cupboard and the PS3 is on the floor in front of it.
The lights are low; the “Victim” is sitting on his favourite bean bag happily playing a violent military videogame. He looks comfortable and is immersed in the game. He exclaims every now and then at the game, jumping up on his seat, whenever something bad or good happens. After a while a sudden a loud BANG is heard down stairs, shocking the “victim”. The “victim’s” facial expression is extremely scared. He turns his head and glances at the pitch black doorway leading to the stairs, he whimpers slightly in fear. The “Victim” apprehensively gets up and tip toes toward the menacing door. The “victim” disappears through the dark doorway.
INT. Stair case
The lighting is dim and the “Victim” is creeping down the stairs he is very cautious and looking around carefully for any movement. He passes the camera and out of sight.
INT. First floor landing
The “Victim” walks slowly across the landing not noticing Box Head in the doorway of the bathroom. After the “Victim” passes the bathroom and starts to walk down the stairs, the Box Head follows slowly.
INT. Second stair case
“Victim” creeps down stairs. On his way down Box Head doesn’t see the wall (due to the lack of sight with the box on his head) this causes the “Victim” to turn round. After getting over the shock of seeing the Box Head the “Victim” runs off waving his arms around and screaming. The Box Head slowly recovers and from the collision with the wall and then starts to follow the “Victim”.
INT. Living room and kitchen area
The “Victim” runs through the doorway and into the living room panting and whimpering and then quickly jumps dramatically behind the kitchen counter. After a while of the “victim” hiding behind the counter, the Box Head walks though the door triumphantly. The Box Head stops and looks robotically left and right. It then starts swinging it’s blade around ridiculously, almost like a martial arts expert, but obviously not. Seeing this causes the “Victim” to let out a scream. Box Head immediately spots the “Victim” and walks over to him. The “Victim” starts to scream like a little girl. The Box Head towers over him and slowly lifts the axe while the “Victim” cowers below him. Box Head swings the blade down with two hands but stops just as the blade is about to hit. This terrifies the “Victim”.
BOX HEAD: (In a low creepy voice, laughing) Got ya!
Then Box Head swings the blade again, this time it goes completely down while the “Victim” screams. The screen goes black and the sound of crushed flesh and bone can be heard as the title of the film appears and the screaming stops.



Story Board















Location Stills

Here are the stills of the location that i am going to film in. I wanted to see how the shots will look like and whether the lighting will work. The pictures that are very dark and hard to see are taken without flash. So will need to use so form of lighting to get the right shot.



Schedule

Staffbreakdown

Isaac Ellcock

Role: Victim
Costume: Casual, Teenage clothes
Number: 07506648295
Getting to location: Walking
Needed on: 13th March
Needed for: 2 hrs



Alex Pavlopoulos

Role: Murderer
Costume: Cardboard box with face drawn on, scruffy clothes and pillow to stuff under shirt to look fat
Number:07947582715
Getting to Location: Lives there
Needed on: 13th March
Needed for: 2 hrs

Equipment Checklist
• Camera
• Axe
• Scruffy clothes
• Cardboard box with face drawn on
• Casual, teenage clothes
• TV
• PS3
• Lighting

Music Permission

here i have requested permission to use the songs "My Generation" by The Who and "Satisfaction" by Benny Benassi.

below is a copy of one of the letters I sent

Dear permissions manager at Track Records
I am making a non- profit film for my Media AS in which I would like to include the song “My Generation” by The Who. If you would kindly give me your permission to do so, I would be very grateful. Again I would like to make clear I am not going to make any money out of this film, only an AS (hopefully).
Thank you for your time.
If you could back to me as soon as possible I would appreciate it. If it is more convenient for you my e-mail address is mihali@hotmail.co.uk
Yours faithfully,
Mihali Pavlopoulos