New Pitch - Change in Plot and Storyboard

Me and my group were under discussions of scraping our initial pitch as we found out that another group in our class were developing the same plot about a child being kidnapped in a park. Also, we agreed that the story of a child being stalked was very cliche and predictable in the relation to the theme of thrillers.

Me and my groups new plot was influenced by our past analysis on the film 'The Shining' and on our own knowledge of the film 'The Omen'. Our new plot involved the opposite of our initial one, instead we had the child stalking the adult, creating the child to be the dangerous 'baddie' and the adult to be the innocent 'goodie'.

Descriptive Development on plot/Main Storyboard

1. Man sitting down on bench reading newspaper
2. Mother and child come into the area, child goes on swing and mother walks around the area
3. Child sits on swing and turns his head looking at the man
4. Man constantly looks at child
5. Child and man stair at each other
   
6. Man looks down back at newspaper and turns pages
7. Man looks up to see child but they have seem to have disappeared
   
8. Man turns his head looking for child
9. Man turns to see the child is sitting next to him
10. Child gives him a piece of paper
11. Child disappears again as man looks back up
12. Man looks at paper given by child
    
13. Flashback of child drawing picture
14. Man has a fit and blood pours out his eyes
15. Man dyes dropping the paper showing a drawing of the man dead on a bench

Key images

• Mother and child walking into park
• Man watching child and walking towards him
• Child giving man piece of paper
• Man dying
• Flashback of child drawing
  
• Drawing on the paper
  

Icons

• Park: Location - Place where children like to play
• Drawing: Reveals the child drew the mans future and end
  

Lighting

• Natural Light - Sunny weather
• Black and white editing when child is drawing to show that time has gone backwards to show a flashback
  

Camerawork

• Over the shoulder of man showing child on the swing in the distance - Shows the view in front of the man
  

• Close up of child sitting down on swing looking at man - Shows that child is watching man in the distance
• Close ups of shot/reverse shots of man and child's faces - Shows tension when staring at each other
• Low angle tilt behind piece of paper when man looks at it - Gives suspense on what the child gave to the man as the content of the paper is not revealed
• Point of view shot of child drawing - Shows process of creating the content of the paper
• Close up of man having a a fit and blood pour from his eyes - Shows grotesque imagery
• Close up of dropping of the paper and revealing the drawing on the paper - Reveals the suspense of the content of the piece of paper
  

Setting and Locations

• Park - Needs Swings and a Bench
• Natural Lighting
• Weather not bothered but rainy gloomy day preferred but dry sunny day is best for filming
  
• Possible Locations:
  

1. Regents Park Playground (15 min on bus)
   
2. Park near Angel by Sainsbury's (10 min walk)
   
3. Piory Park near Pentonville road (10 min walk)
   

Music

• Climaxing
• Heartbeats
• Bangs
• Slow and quiet leading to fast and loud
• Wind noises

Props

1. Newspaper
2. Drawing