Final Ideas Pitch

In this session, we got the whole group together and narrowed down our ideas to one each.

• My idea: was to set it in Peaslake, one of the boarding houses, and show how a seemingly harmless evening at a boarding house ends up with all the students dead the next morning, all killed in mysterious ways.

• Nina's idea: was about a teenage serial killer, who kills out of jealousy and is very methodical and messed up in the head.

• Sopia's idea: was to set the film in a police station, with a suspect being interviewed. The viewer would be partly watching on a CCTV camera, and see things that only the camera could detect.

• Courtney's idea: was about a girl who breaks down on a fairly deserted road, near a seemingly abandoned warehouse. The girl then goes inside and gets murdered. 

Once we had all presented our final ideas, we decided to vote on an idea, and we couldn't vote for our own. Nina's idea won it, but when we presented the idea to Matt and Luke, they said we needed to change a lot of it as our idea was unbelievable. So we changed the scenario to include matched cuts of her planning a kill to shots of her victim. Again we were told to scrap the idea, and we decided to change the story from a girl planning a murder to a couple that have had a violent break-up, and the scene is a foreshadow of events to come, i.e. the guy's murder.
Our new plot was much more popular and we felt that more of our audience would identify with it, as most people have gone through a break-up where they have felt either like Ellie, (violent, destructive, distraught) or like Matt, (doesn't really give a damn, little remorse).