Planning: Initial Ideas To A 60 Second Pitch

We were asked to come up with an entire plot for a whole horror film, aimed at a teenage audience, as a posed to purely planning the opening 2 minutes. We did this by creating a mind map, on which we brain stormed all of our initial ideas. Our mind map was sectioned into 6 different sub-genres that you would typically find in a horror movie. For example, we thought of different ideas that we could use to create a plot for a movie based off true stories and urban legends by researching old news articles and old-wives tales. Then we spent time thinking about supernatural based films, featuring classic monsters/creatures such as vampires, werewolves and zombies. We also considered potential story lines we could go for, depending on weather we went for a gory slasher film that disgusts the audience due to the horrifying imagery, or more a physiological one that plays with the audiences mind. After brainstorming our ideas, we concluded that every horror film should be based around some form of villain or threat/danger, weather it be a psychotic killer, poltergeist, possessive demon or a flesh eating zombie. As a result of this conclusion, we decided to narrow down our ideas and began to think of something more specific. We wanted to create something different; something that other groups were less likely to have thought of. During this thought process, we decided to avoid the supernatural plot lines and stick with the idea of serial killers as we thought that it would be more interesting, due to the fact that the majority of recent horror movies are liked to ghosts and evil spirits.

Once we had came up with the complete idea for out film, we began to think about a production company name and a working film title. We came up with the idea of 'Ragged Crimson Production' as our production company name by thinking of adjectives/words that you would usually associate with horror or repugnance. Because the main events in our film take place on the 29th February, we thought that 'Leap Year' would be an appropriate working title. Our final 60 second pitch can be found on the embedded video bellow: