Planning theFilm Sequences

The Runaway‘The safest place is the deadliest’

Synopsis

•Group of friends have ‘bunked’ off school, and have decided to go through the school woods to get home. However a past teacher who was fired has been watching a particular student that he has been fascinated by for a while.

•A chase scene through the woods

•Ends up just being the main girl left as the other girls have been trapped.

Unique Ideas

•Starts in a classroom. Focus in on clock, pen, and girls.

•Walks outside. Shot of an eye and then a body holding a knife in the car mirror.

…Illegal…

SynopsisA vintage car pulls up to an old house. A man goes inside to purchase

an unknown illegal object from a woman. The money is exchanged and the woman disappears upstairs to get the object. After waiting a while for the woman to return, the man goes in search of the woman. After checking in various rooms, he walks into the bathroom to see the woman dead over the bath.

A brief shot of a masked man can be seen from the moonlit window outside.

Unique Ideas• Old house in an isolated area• Full bath with mud and blood

…Out of Bounds…Synopsis

• A brother & sister are traveling home from school in the city to their parents home out in the countryside, and unusually they hadn't heard from their parents in a week. A road is closed due to a murder that took place in the village the night before. They take the road, not noticing the warnings. As they pass through the woods, near to their home. They find trail of blood, leading to a shed. Inside are 2 people with masked tape and wires. However the light isnt bright enough to make out the faces.

Unique Ideas• Quiet Country Lanes• Mid-light at night• Police Tape by a road named ‘ Oblivion Way’

• A group of teenagers are held in a school on a rainy/stormy night for detention. The teacher leaves the room as she hears a scream outside. When the teenagers realize it is time to leave they cant get out as the door is locked. The lights flicker off and back on to reveal a group of men in white masks standing in the corner of the room.

• Use of a night-vision camera….• Flickering light with buzzing sounds• Girl on the phone with a heavy breathing saying ‘help’

Title – Final Hours

Tagline – You never know when it will all end.

Key Characters – Miss Hardy Chuck Annie Ava Nicholas

When – 7pm on a Friday evening

Where – Small enclosed school classroom

• Chuck & Annie– Caught doing drugs at school• Ava – General behaviour – graffiti, texting, rudeness• Nicholas – Swearing and rude to a teacher

A brief shot of each character and then a flashback to their reason for being in the room. Grey coloured shot. Narrative over the top (few lines) about themselves and why their in there.

The teacher in charge Miss Hardy, leaves the room as she hears a scream from outside. The students take no notice until she's out of the room. A sudden bell rings, door slams shut and lights flick off. Chuck makes a joke, whereas the rest are genuinely scared. Suddenly a bright white light is turned on and a mechanical buzzing is heard, and a group on men in black hoods and white masks appear in the corner of the room.

• Shot of each character filmed in ‘night vision’. Heavy breathing, whispers and sobbing. • Sudden gun shot and black out.• Chuck wakes up in a darkened, cold room. Overhead light swinging and squeaking. Chuck is

tied up on a chair with rope and tape over his mouth. He has no shirt on, but instead has a some red scratches/marks over his chest.

• On a desk, a countdown timer can be seen counting down from 60 minutes. Attached to it is a TV screen – however Chuck doesnt know what is on the TV. All that can be seen is a grey fuzzy screen.

• Suddenly a shot of Ava can be seen, as if it was being filmed off a video CCTV camera. Chuck begins to witness the masked men coming into the room with Ava.

• Chuck manages to find a book named ‘Anon Rules’… whilst reading he notices some significance between the people described in the book, and the masked men. There is a lot of details related to fire, and how deadly it is for the ‘Anon’s.’

• How can he stop them??

• After witnessing Ava is a distressed state, the masked men disappear from the room where Ava has been held hostage. A few minutes later, after panicking, they enter the room where Chuck is.

• The countdown timer is now on 10minutes left… 9.59 etc…• After remembering about ‘fire’ from the book. Chuck gets his matches

used for smoking to set alight to the Anon Book. The masked men, slowly disintegrate into dust.

• Chuck runs to find Ava in the room. When she is found, Chuck notices wires around and attached to her body. He disconnects them.

• When this happens a shot of the countdown timer – now at 1.46 begins to slow down, and gradually comes down to a halt.

• A few days later at school. Chuck and Ava meet outside at school – awkward moment. Where before this incident they weren't friends, now they are and all is solved – use of bright daylight, colours to symbolise a resolution.

By Megan Knowles