Prop Research

Elizabeth's Clothing:
We have chosen to use the color white for Elizabeth's top as white has connotations of purity and innocence. As she is the last girl in the trailer to survive, she needs to fit the final girl stereotype of the most innocent character. We have chose skinny jeans to show how she needs to feel covered up.  

Lola's Clothing:
We have chosen a short, red, bodycon dress to show how she is supposed to be presented as the promiscuous girl in the trailer. The color red connotes danger and also promiscuity and as she is the first girl to die in the trailer, she needs to fit this stereotype. 

 Harriet's Clothing:
We have chosen normal, teenage girl clothing for Harriet's clothing as we need three different types of girls in our trailer. We have the innocent girl, Elizabeth, the promiscuous one, Lola, and then the girl who's fairly normal. Therefore we have chosen to have a normal teenage girl. 

Ingrid's Happy Clothing:
We have chosen to give Ingrid normal, simple clothing as she needs to seem plain and quite geeky. We have chosen a pink top to reflect how the change in personality is shown when Ingrid turns crazy. We have chosen big, chunky, black glasses to also show how she is a geeky type of girl. The black jeans also show how she feels the need to be covered up, therefore wearing long black clothing.

Ingrid's Killer Clothing:
We have chose to use an all black attire for Ingrid's villain clothing as the colour black connotes mystery and also danger is some aspects. We have chose to use a balaclava to hide the villains identity and also baggy clothing to hide body shape to ensure that the audience do not know if its a women or man.

Ingrid's Necklace:
We have decided to include a necklace in the trailer to suggest who the killer is. We have chose a unique looking necklace as it needs to be known that this is Ingrid's necklace. This is also our icon within our film.






Fake Blood:
We have decided to use shop bought fake blood as well as making edible fake blood to ensure that is it safe to use in and around the mouth without causing harm to the actors.

The Forgiven Film Schedule

Script

Harriet: Maeva Pierre-Georges

Lola: Abbie Friday

Elizabeth: Grace Windsor

Ingrid: Bryony Holdridge

Camera tracks down corridor through many different students at Plumstead Manor School, laughter and chatter is heard. Camera then focuses on a group of three teenage girls, Harriet, Elizabeth and Lola.

Harriet: How about camping?

Elizabeth: Nah, I have a free house this weekend, parents and neighbors out of town, my house?

Lola: Yah but there’s only three of us?

Girls look around corridor looking for another person to invite. Camera cuts to a geeky looking girl at a locker named Ingrid. Camera cuts to the four girls talking to Ingrid

Lola: Why don’t you come Elizabeth’s this weekend?

Elizabeth: You’re necklace is really nice by the way

Ingrid: Yeah alright then

The girls are packing up a car to go to Elizabeth’s house. The girls then rush into the house when getting there pushing Ingrid to the back and giggling.

Sitting around a coffee table together laughing. Drinking, smoking, chatting.

Lola: Ingrid have a drink

Harriet: Yeah Ingrid drink

Ingrid: I’m fine thank you

Harriet: Drink, you’re no fun

Lola:  Don’t be a geek

Ingrid: No

Elizabeth: come on Ingrid

Ingrid: NO!

Ingrid storms out of the room. The girls are then walking down the corridor.

Elizabeth, Lola & Harriet: Ingrid…?

 A black figure walks behind them into the other room

Elizabeth: Did you hear that…?

The scene then cuts to Lola in the bathroom looking at her hair and makeup. She opens the cabinet then closes it and there is a figure behind her with a hammer.

Lola: * Screams*

Harriet running down a garden towards a fence at the end while the figure is walking behind her. She attempts to climb the fence and fails.

Harriet: * Screams *

Harriet: HELP!

Elizabeth then grabs the villain round the neck and tries to strangle, pulling off a necklace in the process. She then runs back into the house after failing.

Harriet: * Screams *

Elizabeth: RUN!

Elizabeth is standing in a cupboard with the door slightly ajar so that she can see out. She is holding her hand over her mouth to control her breathing. The killer then walks past the door and tightens her hand over her mouth. The camera then adjusts and the killer is standing staring at the door and then runs at the door.

Elizabeth: * Screams *

Storyboard For The Forgiven

Storyboard For The Forgiven

Treatment 3 - Robyn

Treatment 3 - Robyn: 

It’s winter break 2014, school has finished, and a group of four girl friends decide to take a group outing to a destination that none of them have been to, apart from friend 1 (Amy), who suggested this location.

It’s the following morning girls are leaving the house. All excited for their trip they are happy, laughing and listening to music. As they start to drive away.

On the journey there, Friend 2 mentions the time their group used to pick on Amy in their younger years. Joking around with the other two friends, the girls take the jokes a step too far again, leaving Amy rather upset. Clearly unhappy and hurt, Amy claims she needs to stop at a service station. Enraged by the words of her friends, Amy glimpses over at a hammer that catches her eye in the station.

A shot of Amy is shown, walking slowly over to the hammer. This is followed by a shot of Amy staring expressionless at the tool.

A Shot of Amy is shown, getting back into the car clutching her backpack seeming quite withdrawn. Her friends apologize to her on return, which Amy doesn’t seem to register and remains quiet for the rest of the journey.

Friends arrive at their destination in the evening. It’s almost night and the sky is dark. As friends are moving their luggage, one friend moves Amy’s backpack out of the car and is surprised when a hammer falls out. Confused as to why Amy would bring a hammer to an outing, she confronts Amy and calls the other two girls over, yet again, they all start to innocently mock Amy, calling her crazy. Instead of running off upset again, Amy stands still, staring back with a crazed, blank face and calmly walks away.

Later on that night the friends take part in activities such as drinking and smoking. Seeming rather aloof and in her own thoughts still, Amy doesn’t appear to want to participate with these activities. This bothers Friend 2 and starts to bicker with Amy over how she’s so boring, and how her coming along was a waste of time.

Leading to a full-blown argument, Amy finally snaps. Tired of friend 2 constant remarks, she marches off fuming. Friend 2 reassures the others that she’ll “get scared, and be back in no time”.

Time passes, as Amy still hasn’t returned; however the girls are led to believe someone is watching. The scene cuts to the girls crying running and screaming covered in blood as the final shot is shown of a hammer drawing back.

Treatment 2 - Marnia

Treatment 2 - Marnia:

It’s the end of a busy week at college for three girls called Lola, Elizabeth and Harriet. The three seventeen year olds are deciding what to do over the weekend during school on a Friday afternoon. They are all in mixed minds on what or where they should go until Elizabeth suggests a manner house down in Sunbury where her parents stayed one year. Harriet is happy to go along with idea however Lola is not too sure whether it’s worth the long journey. A little while later Ingrid (A FRIEND OF LOLAS BUT DOES NOT GET ON TOO WELL WITH HARRIET AND ELIZABTETH) comes over and sits with the three girls “what are you girls up to?”  She says politely. A quick shot reverse shot between Ingrid and Elizabeth who are bickering which normally happens. The next clip is Lola suggesting that Ingrid joins them on their weekend retreat.

The girls all decided to be ready and head down to Sunbury for around 6ish on that Friday night where Harriet will be driving them down there. This is all a bit of a rushed decision however Elizabeth in convinced that it’s a great idea to “spontaneous”. This is revealed over an establishing shot of Harriet’s house where they will meet. The next few clips are of the girls laughing, singing and dancing on the car journey down to Sunbury. (At this point everyone is jolly and will are still set in the Equilibrium stages.)

The Girls arrive at the retreat around half 9. It’s very dark out and the lamppost light are very dim and fields and greenery surround them so it’s pretty secluded. A establishing of the manner house is added as this where the girls will be staying for the next two days and where events will change the friendship between them all.

The four girls are taken to their rooms, which they had booked very last minute. All the staff seem very polite and friendly to the girls. Ingrid offered to grab the bags from the car. The next few scenes are the three girls in their hotel rooms mucking about while listening to music. Elizabeth secretly brought a few bottles of different spirits so that the girls could have a good time and it also is a distraction from a stressful time at school with exams. Harriet is not too sure on the whole drinking idea, there is then a close up shot where Ingrid is staring at the spirits. – This is the moment of disequilibrium as she can used it at her advantage.

IT around eleven o’clock now and the girls have all done there fair share of shots, this has taken its tall on them – a long shot of the girls pouncing around the hotel room with relatively loud music. At this point Ingrid and Elizabeth have has a little tiff about the sleeping arrangement for the next few days which developed in to them falling out – this heightens the emotions and turns in to a bitter atmosphere.Ingrid is upset with what has happened, as she knows it will effect the next two days, she decided to go for a walk. Harriet tells Elizabeth to go after her, which is portrayed as long shot of both girls.

 After this, the next few clips are very fast and jumpy with cuts and tone cards between the actions. Includes tracking shots to make it look realistic, high angle shots for vulnerability, hand held camera shot and point of view. These camera angles are all used in the killing of the two girls Elizabeth and Lola. (The audience see some lead ups to murders which involves only one weapon which is a hammer however the murders are not revealed in the trailer) Nothing is revealed about Harriet, as there has to be some sort of surprising element to the blot, the audience also do not know what happens to Ingrid (The main protagonist).

The trailer ends with a lot of editing techniques involved, including jumpy cuts of blackouts or fade in to blackout and with tone cards. This will all hopefully go to the beat of some music or some sort of non-diegetic sound. Including a clip at the end of the trailer after trailer credits will leave suspense for the audience; this could be a clip of one of the murders or even a quick shot of Ingrid that has not been shown in the trailer already.

Treatment 1 - Emma

Treatment 1 - Emma:

It’s a Friday afternoon and three 17 year old friends, Lola, Elizabeth and Harriet, are in college and discussing their weekend plans. Harriet suggests that they should go camping in a field that she knows of but Elizabeth disagrees and says she has a free house and her parents and neighbors were out of town. They decide they want to go to the house but need another person to make it an even number. Fades into a tone card of “Four girls in a empty house”. Scene fades in to girls looking around the corridor and see Ingrid, an awkward, nerdy, shy girl who the three girls used to bully but are now friends with. Scene cuts to the girls inviting her out and complementing her necklace, she agrees to go and the scene fades to another tone card of “On an unforgettable weekend away”.

     Saturday afternoon comes around and the girls are preparing to go to Elizabeth’s house with blankets and pillows with backpacks on their back, getting into a car. The scene cuts and comes back to a car driving down a road to her house. The scene then cuts again to the girls walking into this house, Ingrid being pushed to the back when they are walking in and the three other girls giggling at her.

The scene then cuts to all the girls sitting around an old coffee table in a living room covered in blankets and sleeping bags with cigarettes and alcohol sitting on the coffee table. The girls are drinking apart from Ingrid who sits with a glass of coke. The girls, mainly Lola, start to force her to drink however she says no and the girls keep telling her to, calling her a geek and no fun. Ingrid then shouts no and gets up and walks away out the room, scene then fades to another tone card of “Karma will always come back around.”

     The scene then cuts to the girls walking along the landing of the house calling out Ingrid. The camera then comes round the front of them and a figure in all black walks behind them into a room opposite, the girls hear it and turn around and Elizabeth says “Did you hear that?”, the scene then cuts to black.

The scene then cuts back to a shot of Lola in the bathroom, looking in the mirror at her hair and makeup. She then opens up the bathroom cabinet to find a glass to get some water. As she closes the cabinet, there is a figure in the background over her shoulder in a balaclava, holding up a hammer. The scene then cuts to black with screaming in the background.

The scene then cuts to Harriet running down a garden to a fence at the end of the garden. The camera shows her running from the front and the figure is walking slowly behind her holding the hammer, which is covered in blood. She then gets to the fence and attempts to climb over, failing and screaming for help. The scene then cuts to Elizabeth holding the killer round the throat pulling of a necklace, the same one Ingrid wore in the start of the trailer. It drops on the floor and the camera zooms in on it, then cuts back to Elizabeth running back into the house while the killer walks after Harriet.

The scene then cuts to Elizabeth standing in a cupboard with the door slightly ajar, looking out into the living room, she has her hand over her mouth trying to control her breathing. A figure then walks past the door holding a hammer, she then tightens her grip on her mouth and the camera turns back to the gap in the door (POV shot). The camera then adjusts slightly and she can see the figure staring at the gap in the door, the figure then runs towards the door while Elizabeth screams. Just before the figure gets there, the scene cuts to black and the title screen shows, the scene then fades into a date with jewelry box music playing in the background.