Media Plot Ideas
- 1. Horror Film Plot Idea #1 Death at the party
- 2. • Location: Nice sized house located in a village/small town setting • A teenage party • Cast: 20/30 teenagers drinking, dancing, talking. The whole house is full of the teens, very busy atmosphere. • Suddenly there is a loud disturbance and everyone becomes very disorientated and doesn’t know what's happening. • The trailer shows how a girl has been killed and found dead in one of the bedrooms. Sprayed onto the wall with red paint next to the dead body are the words “Enjoy the rest of your party, I know I will”. • Although the teens are all very scared and want to leave, they realise they are trapped in the house and there is a supernatural force amongst them which is teasing them and preventing them from leaving until they find out who killed the girl.
- 3. • The trailer shows a lot of violence and frustration from this point onwards between the main characters who are two 18 year old boys who are competing to be the “hero” who saves everyone at the party. • Eventually it becomes clear that everyone they falsely blame for having something to do with the murder, actually becomes possessed and the characters who are still pure must attempt to get their friends real spirits back. • The trailer shows lots of chaos, loud noises and creepy things happening within the house, and the rivalry between the two boys eventually becomes camaraderie as they realise they are the only ones who can solve the murder mystery and destroy the evil spirits, bringing back their friends.
- 4. Horror Film Plot Idea #2
- 5. Characters • Main Character- Lucy. (played by Annie Peers) She is a ‘dumb blonde’ stereotypical character, very ditzy and popular within school. She is mischievous and will get herself into trouble for popularity. • Villain/ghost • Other classmates • Caretaker
- 6. Plot • Lucy’s late to assembly, there’s nobody about in school but she hears a tapping noise coming from one of the empty classrooms. She slowly creeps in to see what it is, but then it turns out to only be a caretaker in the cupboard tidying up. • He is angry at her and told her she should not go exploring alone if she hears noises. She’s confused and questions him, and he finally reveals that the school is haunted at night. He told her to return to her assembly and to never go looking for trouble otherwise it could lure the ghost out to start haunting the school in the daytime.
- 7. Plot • It then cuts to when she is sat with her friends. She tells her friends what she found out, about the school being haunted. • They all find it funny and dare her to come into school at night and find out for herself if it’s real. • She is certain that the caretaker was just scaremongering, so she accepts the challenge. It them becomes found footage of Lucy recording herself on her mobile phone, breaking into the school and walking through the corridors at night looking for the ghost. • She begins to hear strange noises but there are explanations to them all, until she goes into the toilets and every time she turns the tap off, it comes back on. From then onwards, strange, unexplainable things start happening and she becomes very distressed as she begins to realise the story of the school being haunted is actually true. • It then becomes a case of her trying to escape from the school but being unable to make it out as the ghost is following her and tormenting her, stopping her from leaving. • There are lots of shots of her hiding and being crept upon and then the trailer finishes on a clip of her shaking hiding under a table in a classroom, then a loud scream and the camera being knocked out of her hand. • The audience is left on a cliff-hanger as to whether or not Lucy escapes from the school in one piece or whether the ghost prevails.
- 8. Horror Film Plot Idea #3
- 9. • A young girl was found dead in a park as she committed suicide, police investigated and found out she did it because she was being bullied. • The audience find out who the bullies are, then they begin to receive threatening texts from the dead girls phone. • The dead girls ghost is visited by a group of evil ghosts who have all also been victims of bullying but have turned sinister due to it. They teach the girl their evil ways and help to torment the bullies as a way of gaining payback.
- 10. • The trailer shows the girls trying to escape from the evil spirits which are haunting them and the girl’s ghost who they bullied. • Each girl ends up getting killed one by one until there is just one left, and it is up to that girl to show remorse and take the consequences of what her and her friends did to the girl. • The audience should end up not knowing whether to feel sympathetic for the girls who are being haunted or to still side with the girl who committed suicide, despite her ghost carrying out these horrible events in an attempt to gain revenge. • Location – park, school, houses – where the girl was found and where her friends go to school and where they live • Characters – popular group of friends young 16-18years old girls – the girl who commits suicide is different to them more shy, insecure and un-popular.