Initial Idea Generation

Bethany Lock & Holly Fairbairn

Plot

• Raven wakes up mental institution

remembering only her first name and the

haunting image of her best friend’s dead body.

With the ghost of her best friend haunting her,

blaming her for her death – Raven, with the

help of her new friend, works to prove her

innocence, find out what really happened to

her best friend, regain her memories and

battle her inner demons.

Themes

In the opening sequence:

• Insanity vs. Sanity – is Raven insane?

Throughout the main plotline:

• Mystery – is Sienna dead and if so who really

killed her.

• Crime – the murder and the investigation into

it.

Raven16 years old and is a student.

She is accused of the death of her best friend Sienna.

All she knows she is that she is innocent and her name is Raven.

She wakes up in

the mental

institution and

doesn’t

remember

anything.

She is haunted

by the ghost of

her best friend

who blames her

for her death.

Sienna 16 years old, a student.

She is murdered whilst walking with Raven.

Her ghost haunts Raven’s mind, blaming her for her murder.

She is an

innocent

character.

Could be a

hallucination of

Raven’s from

guilt.

The GuardsAges unknown.

Quite irrelevant.

Restrain and sedate

Raven when she

tries to escape and

starts screaming

Tries to keep Raven

in her room no

matter what.

Hunter17 years old

Also an inmate in

the institution.

In there because

he has

Schizophrenia.

Helps Raven

escape and figure

out the truth.

Plays a large part

in the main

narrative but may

not be in the

opening sequence.

Settings

• Mental Institute room – white, pristine, cold,

empty, lifeless.

• Park – gloomy, cloudy, empty.

Costume

Raven –

• Jeans and a jumper

• Grey or Black jumper/t-shirt and leggings/tracksuit bottoms

Sienna –

• Jeans and a t-shirt

• Shredded versions of what she was wearing

Guards –

• Uniform?

• Black clothes?

Props

• Fake blood

• Shredded costume

• Fake needle

• Various forms of make-up

• Guns

• Police lights (if possible)

Sounds• Screams

• Police Sirens

• Dialogue

• Background track

Possible background tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7S_JYnacfk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKvFEzFyzw

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpU_ex92jS

Q

Technical Features/ Camera Angles

• Focus Pulls – To go in and out of a dazed state

• Eye Line Match – To show the height difference between Raven and the guards.

• High Angled Shot – Weakness and vulnerability

• Low Angled Shot – Strength and power

• Extreme Close Ups – Emotion in the eyes

• Jump Cut – Ghostly movements

• Match On Action – Attack?

Main Influences

Gothika

Shutter Island

Possible fonts