8/11/2013
Working title: In Seclusion, We Find Safety.
Working title: In Seclusion, We Find Safety.
Genre: Horror.
Form: Teaser Trailer.
Location: In an abandoned garage.
Time: Present day/near future.
Time: Present day/near future.
Plot outline: Two character's stumble into the garage after one is bitten by a zombie. These two people are partners (boyfriend and girlfriend). The girl has been bitten. After the boy frantically tries to stop her bleeding, she eventually dies. The realisation dawns on the boy that he will have to kill his own girlfriend. He takes his time, but eventually shoots her to stop her coming back as a zombie. There is a cut to the film's title as he does this, so we do not actually see it.
Characters: Jack (the boyfriend), Anna (the girlfriend).
Aim: To evoke a feeling of sadness and/or empathy from the audience. Also to make them want more and to watch the feature film that I would be advertising.
Target Audience: 15+ (due to blood/gore, violence and mature themes).
Audience Appeal: It is a horror film with a difference, its main focus isn't to fill the audience with fear. Instead, it will aim to make the audience care for the characters and their emotions in a stronger way than a horror film - more like a drama film. However it will be set after a zombie outbreak and so the full film will contain many different classic horror scenarios that make the audience members scared.
Unique Selling Point (USP): Many horror films focus on just scaring the audience (such as the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise) or making them feel 'squeamish' (such as the 'Saw' franchise). However, my film will play off many different emotions, such as happiness, sadness, fear, confidence, hope, doubt, etc.
Obviously, I won't actually be making the feature film... However, if I was, I would be filling it with these qualities.
Audience Appeal: It is a horror film with a difference, its main focus isn't to fill the audience with fear. Instead, it will aim to make the audience care for the characters and their emotions in a stronger way than a horror film - more like a drama film. However it will be set after a zombie outbreak and so the full film will contain many different classic horror scenarios that make the audience members scared.
Unique Selling Point (USP): Many horror films focus on just scaring the audience (such as the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise) or making them feel 'squeamish' (such as the 'Saw' franchise). However, my film will play off many different emotions, such as happiness, sadness, fear, confidence, hope, doubt, etc.
Obviously, I won't actually be making the feature film... However, if I was, I would be filling it with these qualities.
Why the title?
Naughty Dog's latest video game 'The Last Of Us' features part of a sentence, as it's title. Most titles for films are one word/sentence, such as Uncharted, Children of Men, Isolation, Natural Born Killers, Predator, Alien... Shrek. So I liked their spin on the title - is there meant to be something before the title: "I hope we aren't the last of us"? Or maybe something afterwards: "The last of us are dying"? We will never know, but the title alone creates a number of enigmas. So I created the title "In Seclusion, We Find Safety" because I can imagine that (or something similar) being said after a long, meaningful, almost 'movie-style' speech. Maybe something being said by a newsreader, such as: "Secluded places are less affected, due to less people living there - in seclusion, we will find safety"?
My title also relates to the state of the world in my fictional universe - where less people live, there will be a decrease in the amount of zombies because there is less food. This means that secluded places are safer to stay in, rather than more inhabited places (such as cities).
My title also relates to the state of the world in my fictional universe - where less people live, there will be a decrease in the amount of zombies because there is less food. This means that secluded places are safer to stay in, rather than more inhabited places (such as cities).
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