Screenplay

Screen play. LAMIA.

 

Opening.

                       Start.

 

Screen goes from black to a close up of a swinging light bulb. The screen will also have a flickering effect, like a flickering light bulb.

 

Title (Phoebe Oldfield)

 

Fades out to black.

 

Bible laid open on a surface, words are underlined and circled. Words related to the devil or evil.

 

The book starts bleeding from one corner as if it was a person. Book closes.

 

Close up of flame.

 

Flash of bible closed with no blood.

 

Title (Olivia Needham)

Title burns away.

 

Bible on fire. Is revealed.

 

Pan around the room to a white wall. Slow flickers of light, dark to light etc. Flicker from the white wall to a hand covered in blood leaving a diagonal trail of blood along the wall ending with a hand print.

 

Close up of blood, with a title. (Shannon Nunn)

 

Flash to hands holding a cross, slowly pushing it up from chest to stretched arms.

 

Flashes of different part of the cross.

 

Images of family photos, burning in and out of different photos changing the saturation.

 

Images drop to the floor as a title comes up while they fall. (Created by, Phoebe Oldfield, Olivia Needham and Shannon Nunn)

 

Hand/nail scratch faces off the parents.

 

Flash/fade to, title (Director, Editor and Music)

 

Scatter across the floor of a grudge looking girl, going up the walls.

 

Camera pan around the room, to reveal a girl in the corner not showing her face.

 

Black screen. Main Title (Lamia) comes up.

 

Fast image of Mia screaming.

 

 

                        End.

Interview for film

Regulation: BBFC

This post is about the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) and what it does and how it relates to my thriller opening. The BBFC are an independent, non-governmental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/DVD's since the Video Recordings Act was passed in 1984.

The BBFC was created to protect children from being exposed to unsuitable and even harmful content in films and give potential viewers information before they decide whether or not to watch a film. The BBFC examine and age rate films and videos before they're released. In order to decide which age they will give a film they use the 'Classification Guidelines' to see what criteria the film matches.


For our thriller, my group and I decided to label it a 15 as it may contain the following:

• inappropriate language for those under the age of 15
• may contain scenes of a sexual nature
• drug use
• violence

But remember, we have to think about the WHOLE film when choosing an age rating, not just the opening. If we based it on the opening to the film, we would rate it a 12 as it only includes a scary theme and blood, and may startle viewers towards the end. 

Because our film is a 15, it allows for a wider age range of people to watch and therefore gives us a bigger audience and perhaps makes for more money.

I hope this gives you a better insight to how we rated our film opening and how other films are rated and to my thriller itself...:)

A few tips to help you when filming

Two of my top tips for filming:

• One important thing to remember is continuity, for example, is the actress' hair the same in the same scene? Or is the weather the same? For these to be avoided, look back at your footage and double check. 
• Remember to story board! This is incredibly important as it allows you to plan ahead and keeps you organised when filming.

When storyboarding, remember to include:

• shots
• settings
• what characters/ actors needed in that setting (so people know when they'll be needed and how long for)
• what props/costumes are needed in those settings
• an idea of timings
• put next to the shots what days you'll film what

Location/setting:

• Plan your time there to the hour
• Keep in mind health and safety to ensure all of your team are safe

When filming:

• Make a shooting schedule and try to stick to it to help stay within deadlines
• use plenty of different shots from different angles so continuity looks better and is easier to obtain
• shoot 5 to 10x more footage than needed as you may need it when in post-production
• Take plenty of cutaways as they could come in handy in the final edit
• Don't delete footage as you may need it later on
• get your footage off of the camera asap as it may get deleted or lost
• label your footage and/or use a clapper board to identify each scene

I hope you find these tips useful :)

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One Page Pitch

One page pitch.

One page pitch.

Age rating:

We have chosen to make our film a 15 because it may contain:

§  strong violence

§  Frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').

§  portrayals of sexual activity

§  sexual nudity

§  discriminatory language or behaviour

§  drug taking

Target Audience:

The target audience will be age 15-30 as our film is based on a teenage girl and therefore will be relatable. Even though this is a psychological thriller it will include ‘normal’ everyday life scenes that show the contrast in before and after.

Tag line:

“Laid in bed crying as her parents told her nightmares aren’t real. What they didn’t know is she would soon become the nightmare.”

The what if:

You can’t hide from your sins. He will get you one way or another. No matter how many times you attend church. Or how many crosses you wear on your body. The bible you sleep next to at night is just not enough. What if it was your precious baby who paid for your sins? That is on your back. What if?

Plot:

A woman who has spent her youth as a sinner, experimenting with sexuality, neglecting to follow the path set down by her excessively religious family, even murdering a man one night whilst under the influence of drugs and alcohol and caught up with the wrong crowd, is now in her late 20’s, is healthy and happy and has fallen pregnant. The baby is born and is named Mia, and all is well. Over the years, strange occurrences play out in relation to the child, injuries, accidents, and disappearances. As the girl reaches her mid-teens, the occurrences become considerably worse, and the girl’s behaviour turns sinister and she begins to exhibit all kinds of violence. By the time the girl is 15 years old she appears to be totally taken over by a paranormal force. With nothing left to do, her parents bolt her into a small room until they kind find a way to cure/exorcise their daughter. They visit a paranormal expert in order to make sense of what’s happening and he soon pieces together that what is going on could be the work of the demon named Lamia, who preys on children, and that the demon must be punishing the mother for the crimes committed in her youth by possessing her child. Back at the house, Mia thrashes her way out of the confined room and escapes, letting her loose to terrorise nearby people. She stabs three young girls and then disappears off into the night. Her parents, still with the paranormal expert, find out that the only way to release the demon from their daughter, is for the mother to confess her sins in the eyes of God in Church. Just as they arrive at church, they are surprised to find that Mia is waiting for them. In a nail biting finale, Mia murders both of her parents and stumbles out of the church. The movie ends as possessed Mia is seen stood in a church doorway covered in blood.