Film Opening Re-Pitch

Since my initial pitch, I have made the following changes: 

- Working with Sasha and combining our ideas together.

- Using slasher genre conventions and archetypes (binary opposition of final girl and scream queen).

- Creating a clique rather than only one girl.

- Having a prank gone wrong rather than a revenge film.

- Changing the narrative to remove crowded or public spaces such as a church.  

Working Title: GobStopper 

Genre: We decided to combine horror and teen rom com for our film. We were inspired by the films Heathers (1988), Jennifers Body (2009) and Jawbreaker (1999). 

Synopsis: A group of girls decide to prank their friend on the night before her birthday by kidnapping her. They accidentally kill her, and the rest of the film follows them covering up their tracks with the scream queen dying at the end to pay for her crime. 

Opening: The film starts with a flashback of the girl being murdered, with exposition being given through the use of missing posters and radio voiceover. It then cuts to two girls kidnapping their friend, the scream queen killing her using a gobstopper, while the final girl tries to stop her. They realise she's dead and quickly attempt to dispose the body, forgetting to properly cover up their tracks while burying her in the forest. To transition to the main film, they are seen in school the next day talking of the crime. 

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

Setting/Location: Our sets would be the girls room (exposition and keeping to teen audience), the school (teen audience) especially the lockers (false scare). The forest would be used for the digging/burial scene and the car would be used for a boot shot. 

Costume: Our costumes are mainly inspired by Heathers (1988) with the colour theme and matching skirts or bows, we also want to create a teen movie feel so we would replicate the styles they used at the time. 

Props: Our main props would be a shovel, a gobstopper and schoolbooks. We would try and keep the props limited and focus on the mise-en-scene instead. 

After re-pitching we have decided to make the following changes: 

- include a stalking scene (slasher convention and false scare)

- include a party as a plot point 

- use missing posters instead of a radio voiceover

- blur the roles of final girl and scream queen by having the final girl die first instead

- create narrative enigma (Barthes) with the burial scene and not explicitly show her friends burying her 

- not use a gobstopper but have her drink being poisoned (easier to shoot)