Monday 26th September
Meeting lasted 2 hours
After having a meeting with the other member of my group, Lauryn, we both read through one another's plot synopsis to have an idea of what we wanted to base our main plot around for making the story and the trailer. Lauryn's synopsis ideas included:
- Fear of the dark
- Shadows and dark figures that moved
- Spirits that came for revenge
Both of our synopsis was set around the genre of Horror, horror movies are something that we both showed an interest in watching and because of this we can use some ideas from horror movies to make our final trailer and movie successful.
After deciding that our genre was going to be horror we next decided on an age category and what our target audience would be. Both of our characters within the plot synopsis were young (early 20's) so we decided that our target audience would be based around the age range of 15-25, by choosing this age would also allow me and Lauryn to relate more to the characters because we are both 17 and still in education just like the characters in our plots were. We based the gender of our target audiences around males because the main character of our plots were males.
After deciding our genre and target audience it was now time to start thinking about our main plot.
The ideas consisted of:
A young photographer called Conner lives in the small town of Abergavenny has just graduated at university on a photography course, he lives alone and has a close relationship with his Granddad and as a present for graduating at university his Granddad gave him his old camera, but every time Connor takes a photograph he sees distorted faces and scratched out eyes on the faces of the people within the images. Connor wakes up one morning with bruises in the shape of a smile on his arm and hand marks around his wrist as if someone has grabbed them and dragged him. He goes to see a doctor the next day about this and Connor explains his story, the doctor was fairly old and says to Connor that he's only seen one story like this before, he pulls out a file and the file consists of information about a male with the same surname as Connor and the same birthday, children and address as his Granddad, it soon clicks into Connor's head that the man who he thought was his Granddad was really an imposter and that his Granddad was living his life as a lie. Connor in rage storms out of the doctors room and confronts his Granddad about what happened at his appointment. He becomes angry too and starts shouting at Connor telling him that the doctor was lying. Later that night Connor goes to his studio which is situated out of town so that the environment is peaceful and quiet for him to practice his editing, but weird things start happening, picture frames that hold photos of Connor and the imposter Granddad start falling off the wall and the computer starts deleting all the photos of Connor and his imposter Granddad. Connor thinking that he has been hacked and that there's someone in his house calls the police. The reflection of the flashing lights on the windows and the loud knock on the door makes Connor shiver with fear and he runs down the stairs to answer it but when he opens the door there is a police officer hanging from the door frame, dead and has a smile painted on his face made of blood.
After writing part of the plot our meeting had finished and to help further our ideas we both set ourselves the task of researching and watching the film shutter to see if we could incorporate any more ideas of cameras and photography into our plot.
