What we did today

Today we worked on getting together the special effects for the soundtrack.
We also started making an opening logo for our fictional company as our extract is the opening scene.

What we did today

We editing the first half of the extract - the part in the club.
We added effects such as radial blur, to make it look as if she's been drugged.
We also added echo to the music to again, make it sound like she's been drugged.
We had trouble with making one clip look as if it is shaking, but we sorted that out.

Movie Poster

Script - 1st draft

[Black screen, music, fades into house party (costume?). Crowd of young people dancing]

[Chelsey dancing with a drink in her hand] {close up}

[Chelsey puts her drink down on the table and goes to talk to her friend]

Chelsey: Hey, I haven't seen you in ages!

[Voices in background. See man walk past the table and look at Chelsey] {over the shoulder}

[Chelsey goes back to get her drink] {close up}

[Chelsey dancing with drink in hand] {wide shot}

[Chelsey drinks her drink] {close up}

[People dancing gradually start to blur] {wide shot}

[Chelsey looks back at drink, noticing something is in it] {close up}

[Chelsey tries to stumble out of room] {wide shot}

[Chelsey falls to the floor, people laugh] {high angle shot}

Boy 1: Ha, she's so drunk

Girl 1: Typical Chelsey!

Boy 2: I'll get her home....



[Chelsey still passed out in new room] {wide shot}

[Chelsey wakes up, confused] {mid shot}

[Chelsey looks around] {close up}

[Chelsey gets up, walking around room] {wide angle}

Chelsey: Help! Is anyone out there!

[Door slams open, man standing in doorway] {wide angle}

[Shot of knife in man's hand] {close up}

[Man steps into room, door slams shut] {mid shot}

[Chelsey steps back, terrefied] {mid shot}

[Chelsey cowers in the corner] {mid shot}

[From other side of the door, hand slams on window and Chelsey screams (or banging against door)] {mid shot}

Storyboard

Similar films

The film 'Taken' is similar to our idea for the film sequence.

Taken was made in 2008, and directed by Pierre Morel, is about a young girl who goes on holiday with her friend, and gets abducted by a man. Her father, who is an former spy, sets out to find his daughter.
The similarities between this film and our film is about the young girl being abducted, and also a slight similarity between the names, Taken and Trapped, both one word, snappy titles.

150 Plot Summary

The sequence starts off with a group of 'young people' in a party/club, having a good time. The main character, Chelsey, is working off the sadness from a recent break-up by drowning her sorrows. However, things soon take a turn for the worst when one of her drinks is spiked, and she led away by a mysterious captor. She soon wakes up to find herself locked in a cellar, at the mercy of her captor.

Prop list

Costumes - Clubbing, mask(?)
Weapon
Fake blood
Drink glasses

Locations:
House (Party)
Cellar

5 Potential titles

* Spiked
* No way out
* Basement
* Chelsey
* Trapped

We decided on Trapped

50 word synopsis

Chelsey Smith is a single eighteen-year-old girl, recently dumped by her boyfriend. On a night alone out in the clubs drowning her sorrows. She thinks she's had a few too many drinks, but suddenly finds that things are taking a turn for the worst. She wakes up alone in a dark, confined room, with no possible way out and a man watching her every move from another room.

One sentence pitch

 These are some of the one sentence pitches we came out with

Never drink alone
No way out
No-one can hear her scream
A hangover is the least of her worries

We decided on A hangover is the least of her worries