Final Pitch

FINAL PITCH: 

We tried many scenarios to make our idea more feasible. The idea of a prank going wrong would be to hard to execute, we were thinking of filming the action scene in the girls bedroom but that wasn't the best way to do it. We started exploring the ideas of a classic forest chase. We really wanted to go with the Heathers (1988) idea. We tried many different scenarios: we were thinking of making it Halloween, everyone would wear costumes, the boyfriend would wear a Jason mask and jumpsuit for intertextuality and our main thee girls would be dressed as the Heathers, another idea was to incorporate the colours of Heathers (1988) into their outfits. We decided to scrap it and just stick to the idea of the scream queen acting immorally, dressed in a vulgar outfit, and the final girl being innocent.

Working Title: All the Boys Loved Jennifer

Genre: Slasher. Our main influences were Jennifers Body (2009), Scream (1996) and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006). 

Synopsis: A girl is walking to a party when her boyfriend jumps out and scares her. The two go deep into the woods but the couple don't know they are being followed. The couple hear some strange noises and the boyfriend goes to check it out. After she is killed, her two best friends try and solve the mystery, and the end of the movie reveals one of them to be the killer.

Opening: The opening shot is a MLS of a girl walking down a dark street. We see her drinking and smoking. She gets a message from her best friend asking when she is arriving to the party. Her phone background is a picture of her and her two other friends. There is a best friends bracelet on her wrist. There is an eerie atmosphere, she feels like she is being followed. there is a false scare of her boyfriend jumping out. The two go deeper into the woods. There is a noise of a branch snapping. The boyfriend goes to check out what it is. The girl thinks that the guy is pranking her again. There is a shot of her getting her throat slit. The identity of the murderer is ambiguous. We see a shot of a dark figure burying a body. There is a shot of her skirt being covered in dirt and match cut to the inside of the locker the following morning. Her two best friends are discussing her friend not arriving to the party the night before.

Audience: Our primary audience would still be females aged 15-24+, and our secondary audience is male and female aged 25-44+

Setting/Location: The forest would our main setting and be used for the digging/burial scene. A street with a street light for the opening shot. A school corridor for the conversation.