Initial Ideas

 Idea one:

Themes and Representations:

• Brightly colored theme

• Coming of age themed(for the first few scenes)

• Turns darker, typical horror themes

• Paranormal activity

Narrative:

• The main character, who is a naive student enjoying their day to day life, has friends, a loving family and a bright future. But then the MC finds a cursed wooden statue right by their school, then everything changes after that.

Characters:

• Will appear in majority of the scenes

• Represented as a nerdy and shy person

Technical codes:

• First half of opening sequence, color graded with bright colors

• Closeups to show happy emotions

• LS,MS to show the MC’s life and how wonderful it is

• Second half, darker tone, more shadow and apply a darker filter

•  Closeups, long shot, medium shots to show changes in the MC’s life

Symbolic codes:

• Wears school uniforms in the first few scenes

• Happy emotions, everyone in the first few scenes have happy emotions on them

• Typical coming of age looks

• First half of the scenes will represent how the happy outside of a person look and second half shows what actually is happening inside of that person

Typography:

• Handwriting(like Napoleon Dynamite)

• Credits written in a simple font

Visual Effects:

None

Idea two:

• Themes and Representations:

  • Dark theme

  • MC is represented as a curious person who doesn’t know when to stop

  • Two sides of a person

  Narrative:

  • A serial killer is emerging in the area of the MC

  • MC and his friend decided to try to find this serial killer since they find the local police is too scared

  • As they slowly find more and more details about the serial killer the more similarities they find relating to the MC

  Characters:

  • A out-going main character who is confident and curious

  • Close friend 1 is a nerdy person and easily scared

  • Close friend 2 an average guy who likes partying and is out-going.

  Technical codes:

  • Zooms in the tv talking about the news of a serial killer, inside of the MC’s room with his 3 friends

  • Lots of Longshots and closeups

  • Plain simple cuts

  Symbolic codes:

  • MC and close friend 2 dress in a trendy way, close friend 1 dresses nerdier than the other two friends

  • MC’s room looks really current time, shows that it is set somewhere in the 2000s

  • Closeups of two different sides of things 

  Typography:

  • Clear and simple fonts

  
  

  Visual Effects:

  None

Idea three:

Themes and Representations:

• Modern

• Mystery horror

Narrative:

• A test subject for a neural chip implant just had his surgery

• After a while of using it, he start encountering weird things

• Some Kind of life form start showing up around him uncontrollably

Characters:

• Main character who is a male student, bad grades, not much future and talent

• The advertiser who wears a suit and looks really professional

Technical codes:

• A Lot of closeups, zoom ins to show weird phenomenon happening

• Shots from weird angles, mix between dutch shot at different angles to encode feeling

of being watched

Symbolic codes:

• Advertisement of the neural chip looks really sketchy but professional

• dress like current time

Typography:

• Advert like font

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Visual Effects:

• Some visuals of the human body with the chip inside

This is my moodboard for each idea:

- Idea 1:

-Idea 2:

-Idea 3:

My first idea is the most liked idea, it fits with my horror genre and there is a good twist.

It might need to be cutted to be fit into the time stamp and it can use some POV/eyeline to show the changes when they find the statue. It is achievable and most of the scenes is in a school which is always available.

My second idea requires more than the time stamp, it also is more of a crime genre than a horror genre. It is achievable but quite difficult since i'm trying to make the props.

My third idea is quite long, it more of a science fiction genre than horror in the first sequence, requires alot of vfx and it doesn't have a motive for the action of the main character.