Name: Lilly

Nickname: Lils

Age: 11 - 13

Role in the plot: Main character

Biography: An unloved child deprived of affection from a needy mother who is dependent on an abusive partner, has had a hard start to her life. After her parents split and her older brother left, Lilly has been forced to grow up all by herself.

Height: Small

Weight: Light

Eyes: Brown.

Hair: Brunette, wavy.

Complexion: fair complexion
Face Type: Skinny faced
Body Type: Slouchy.

Clothing style: Casual such a teens and t-shirts other than a dirty looking uniform that is creased for school.

Speaking Style: Dreamy, doesn’t talk a lot however when she does makes sense unlike her mates.

Likes: Being alone, school, the park, her small circle of friends, escaping when she is not at home, her room, her bed, fairy tales, films, writing.

Dislikes: Home, ignorant mother, her split life (school and home)

Fears: Her father. The monster.

General Demeanour: Lonely. Quite, smart and depressed.

Ambition: escape from her abusive fathers grasp and live out a normal teenager’s life.


Occupation: Student

Strengths: She is mature and a good listener.

Weaknesses: Can be scared to voice her opinion.

Hobbies: Going to the park, going to after school clubs.


Name: Emily

Nickname: Ems

Age: 11 – 13

Role in the plot : Best mate

Biography: From the start of life Emily had the up hand being born into a rather wealthy family. She is an only child who finds comfort in her friends and is cared for tremendously by her loving, generous parents. He lives in a massive house in an expensive area a little further away from school than the other characters. Her father is a writer and mother is artist who have inspired her massively as she wants to be a fashion designer.

Height: Small

Weight: Fairly Light

Eyes: Blue or Green

Hair: Blonde, wavy

Complexion: fair complexion
Face Type: round faced, baby faced.
Body Type: Skinny Character who seems fragile.

Clothing style: Posh, she could wear clothes such as blouses skirts and tights, wears full uniform to school.

Speaking Style: Proper English however speaks at a fast pace and is very enthusiastic.

Likes: Her friends, fairytales, life, art, make believe and school.

Dislikes: Boys and boring subjects such as history as she much more enjoys creative subjects such as art.

General Demeanour: Bubbly, warming, chatty, immature, girly.

Ambition: To be a fashion designer.

Occupation: Student
Strengths: Full of enthusiasm.

Weaknesses: Can be easily lead.

Hobbies: Drawing, talking, reading non fiction texts.


Name: Zoe

Nickname: Zo

Age: 11 – 13

Role in the plot: Friend

Biography: Zoe is a distressed character seeking more out of life than her mum wants her to. She lives in an average sized house and is not particularly rich or poor. She lives with her mum who is a nursery nurse and her older brother who are always fighting. She confides in music and is bored by her mother wanting her to achieve. She is rebellious, out spoken and does not adhere to the rules.

Height: Just above average for a girl of her age. She is taller than Emily and Lilly.

Weight: Average weight for a girl her age.

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Black or Dark Brown, long and straight.

Complexion: Extremely pale.
Face Type: Slim bone structure
Body Type: bony and her posture is slouched.

Clothing style: In an average day this child would wear jeans and her favourite band top for example my chemical romance with converse. To school she wears uniform although tries to custom it to her own style making it look scruffy.

Speaking Style: She talks depressingly and seems to suck the life out of the conversation, she seems not bothered and laid back.

Likes: Isolation, music, the colour black, hanging out with her small group of friends, dark make up.

Dislikes: School, the colour pink, dodgy boy bands, her brother and girly stuff.

General Demeanour: Laid back, depressed.

Ambition: Something to do with music doesn’t really care about a stable career.
Occupation: Truanting student.

Strengths: Out spoken

Weaknesses: Her image and is not accepted by everyone.

Hobbies: Listening to music, sketching.

Monster Script
Draft 1

Ms. Harper: Good morning class! I thought today we would do a fun writing activity.

Class: Awe (whiny, not waning to do it)- Lilly is seen and she does not participate in the whining.

Ms Harper: Now, now kids I mentioned it would be fun, so there is no need to panic. I want you to write about what you are most afraid of. It can be fictional or non-fictional. I am leaving that for you to decide. Say for example, if I were to write about my worst fear I would write about giant spiders attacking my house! (laughs) Anyway, get started now and you have until the end of the lesson, if you don’t finish it’s homework!

(The focus will start to go towards a little girl in the front of the room. Due to an over the shoulder shot, we can start to see what she is writing. Her first written words are “I’m not scared of spiders. I’m not even scared of ghosts. The only thing that frightens me in this world is a monster.”- Then the narration starts and we fade into a flashback.

Lilly: The monster I know isn’t like any other monster. He doesn’t live in my closet or under my bed. He doesn’t only come out at night. I don’t really understand because he says he loves me one day, and others I just hear screams. We still have fun too. But playing hide and seek isn’t the same as before. Because these days, if I lose the game, I lose sleep that night too. I know everything will be okay and the fear will go away. Besides, the monster only comes out when the bottle is out. But I’d still like to know why does he treat me so? I’ll never be mad but I still know there should be comfort at home, not pain from your dad. (As the last sentence is said, we skip to a shot of a man’s shadow hitting Lilly in a dark room)



Monster

This short film reveals the inner feelings and views of a world so much bigger than a girl can imagine. Her outlook on life has been simplified to common metaphors of a young child. However the deeper meanings behind the metaphors are more than some children could bare.
The story opens with the setting of a regular, every day classroom. The teacher gives the children their daily assignment. Today it is no regular assignment. They have been requested to write a short essay-fiction or non-fiction about their worst fear. The teacher jokes about how she is deathly afraid of spiders- therefore her essay would consists of giant spiders taking over her whole house! Lilly’s (main character) fear is a monster that she takes careful detail describing. She describes his actions and his ways- the reasons why she is afraid of him. Throughout her writing there are cuts/fades to Lilly wandering around the park alone. After school hours she’d rather roam the park finding things to occupy her time than go home. In her thoughts while she is at the park she plays on the swing set, kicks around an old found ball, lay in wonder in the grass. As the end of her story approaches it seems to become clearer of who the monster really is. This is reassured by the concluding sentence and the last shot of someone (her father) assaulting Lilly- this being done by a p.o.v. shot of her dad hitting her as she steps foot into the house.
This story gets inside the head and thoughts of a young child who lives in an abusive family. She has created a ‘monster’ in her head as to replace the actual abusive father who has caused her to think this way. The sadness of the main character has made it for the audience to be highly empathetic towards her experience. The entire purpose of the story comes together in the end when it all ends in a bang as the audience finds out that the monster is not an imaginary character in a book or a cartoon, yet an abusive father living in her very own house.

Why is sound important in film ?

In class we attended a workshop all about sound and why it is important in film. Before the workshop started we are asked to write down a few reasons why we though sound was important in film.

This is my intial list of why sound is important in Film :
- Sets the mood of the film
- Challenges the audience
- Builds tension
- Suggests the genre of the film
- In films such as SCI-FI which are not real special effects and sound can be used to make the story more belivable.

Audio Work shop

We then watched the video located below on the importance of sound :




From the video I have learnt that :

- Sound adds realism and emotion
- The audience will generally tollerate unclear video however never sound.
- Once you are able to controll sound you can do more with it.

The opening sequence of the ring was then played three times :



The first time it was muted and only video footage was played I realised that as a horror the film the tensions and suspense was destroyed because

These are our responses to the questions & comments raised while we presented our first pitch to the class.

Feedback Responsesfor Rrk

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Red Rose Killer Treatment
The story starts out as a clip based in olden times. This can be deciphered through the date on the bottom corner of the screen, as well as the granulled old style filming. The voice on the radio speaks of a third murder by the mysterious ‘red rose killer’ who leaves a red rose at the scene of his every killing. The voice on the radio also describes the targets as young, attractive women. As someone turns the radio off the scene fades into current day with the effect of granulled type film being taken off as well as the text ‘current day’ in the bottom corner being displayed. We are then seeing an older man distressed in his sleep. He is shaking and mumbling. At this time there are flashbacks of scenes of murder- this is to represent what the man is dreaming about. The scene cuts from the dream to reality a few times until finally the man wakes up. There is no diagetic dialogue as music covers the man’s voice. He picks up the phone dials a number and then speaks into the telephone (we cannot hear his voice). There is a cut to an analog clock. A fast forward affect of the clock turning quick lets the audience know a long time has past- even though it has only taken up a few seconds of the clip. Afterwards, we see a women walk into the room. Her dialogue reveals that she is the man’s dead wife’s sister. They have not spoken since the death of Lily (sister and wife). The man seems to be in painful agony (coughing, speaking uneasy). He tells the sister that he has a confession to tell her. As he starts telling his story he pulls out a letter and describes it as the beginning of everything. There is a flashback of a woman writing this letter. His wife is the one writing to him to confess her unloyalty to her husband. She narrates the letter as she writes it, folds it up, and puts the letter on his pillow, followed with a red rose on top of the letter. The continuation of the film happens with a large amount of flashbacks and flash forwards into current time. The man confesses that he has killed his wife as well as 3 other women due to the rage and anger he had acquired from being cheated on. The clips of him killing the other women are tastefully shown with flashbacks of hints of killing and seduction. As the women he was after were unloyal women, just like Lilly. He confesses his killings to the sister. She is obviously very distressed and didn’t know what to think of it all. Before she has time to put her input into the tragedy of her sister and those women, the main character dies. She places one white rose on top of him as there was a vase with white roses next to his bed. This concluded the film with a quote from the bible talking about clearing away your sins, and red turning into white. “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”

These are our intial character profiles for the Red Rose Killer Story, new character profiles for the monster script are under charaacter profile 2 label.;


News Reporter
Around the age of eighteen to twenty can be either male or female and have a strong clear English accent. The character is required to wear a smart suit jacket and shirt

Sister Deborah
A female character around the age of forty she has lost her older sister who died suddenly with no explanation, she should be caring for her sister and is defensive and anxious whenever her sister is mentioned. Her costume consists of casual clothing including a jacket and handbag.