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The Lurking Produced by Angel Duncil, Elona Woodford and Matt Rabbitt Production Company: Top Hat Production

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The LurkingProduced by Angel Duncil, Elona Woodford and Matt

Rabbitt

Production Company: Top Hat Production

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Genre• The genre of our film is Horror so it means that we could

involve the paranormal and the idea of becoming possessed.• When looking at the genre we took inspiration as to how

to shock/ scare the audience from various films.

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Genre Success Influences

The woman in black posses others ending in death influencing our

idea of Nick Horror

They move into an old house where crimes

have previously taken place was influenced

by SinisterIn Paranormal Activity they feel the presence

of ghosts/ spirits as which influenced the

ghosts in ‘The Lurking’

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Cast• Nick Livingstone – Hugh Laurie• Janey Smith – Emma Watson• Chloe Goodard – To be confirmed through auditions• Kate Day – To be confirmed through auditions• Willow Barkway – To be confirmed through auditions

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Nick Livingstone

He is going to be played by Hugh

Laurie.

Outfit Idea:

Character Overview:• Mysterious• Landlord of the

house • ‘Helpful’• Dark• Secretive• Creepy

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Janey Smith

She is going to be played by Emma

Watson

Character Overview:• Main character

and member of sorority

• Innocent• Outgoing• Easily persuaded

Outfit Idea:

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Chloe, Kate and WillowCharacters Overview:• Remaining

members of sorority

• Close friends• Young• Vulnerable Outfit Ideas:

Similar to Janey’s outfits

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Setting• Derelict old house, just about liveable• In the outskirts of Louisiana• Old fashioned house• Always has a subtle burnt stench• Isolated• Bad weather – winter to show pathetic fallacy• Set in 2015

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Plot• For sale sign is shown (very beginning). They meet the landlord of

the house (Nick) who is willing to help them move in.• They decided to move there because they didn’t have a lot of

money.

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• As days pass by, scary things begin to occur for example, writing on steamed mirrors, crying noise at night, subtle dragging of legs while sleeping.

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• A week after they have moved in, whispers wake up the girls. Chloe who has had enough of constantly being disturbed, goes outside of the house to try and confront whatever is causing the commotion. She goes to the hallway (at the entrance) and the door opens and she gets dragged out. • Nick shows up and ‘saves’ her, keeping her in the

house.

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• During the same night, Chloe can’t go back to sleep because she was shaken up/scared by the ‘dragging’ event. Her feet drag her downstairs unwillingly to the basement where she finds Nick and she immediately starts questioning him. She sees something behind him (pile of dead bodies) and everything clicks. The screen goes black and Chloe starts screaming.

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• Next day, Kate is found in the bath dead and Chloe is crying with blood on her hands attempting to clean them. She kills herself due to guilt (but she was actually possessed). • It turns out the ‘weird’ things happening were actually

done by the ghosts living inside the house who were old tenants. This happens in Janey’s ‘dream’ as the ghosts come to her warning her to leave. They were being dragged to get them out the house but she realises that Nick was purposely trying to keep them in.• This conclusion is further confirmed when she reads

Nicks old journal.• Janey realises and tries to leave but realises that Willow

is still in the house. She goes back and sees Nick with Willow’s dead body.

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Ending • Having learnt about Nick’s past and seeing what he has

done to her friends, Janey decides to burn the house down in order for the recurring cycle of murders to stop – to make them (the girls) the last tenants of the house. But she has to sacrifice herself to do this and she does. • The camera zooms into the fire/flames and the screen

turns black.

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Nick’s motives• The house that the girls live in was actually burnt down

in 1957. It was Nick’s family home and his whole family died in the fire, except him. He does everything he can to rebuild the house and he manages to do so but this doesn’t make him feel better as he is traumatised and becomes extremely lonely. He overdoses and dies two years later. He wants others to now feel his pain.• Creates 5 stage narrative analysing as the house ends

they way it started before Nick died (Equilibrium).

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Film Language• Mise en Scene• Most scenes - low lighting• High lighting at start on Nick to emphasise his importance. • Darkness• Nick wears dark clothing to mirror his personality and also

old fashioned to show that he is someone from the past (been dead for a long time)• Girly bright outfits for girls – binary opposites (contrasting

with Nick) to emphasise their youth

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Film Language• Sound• A combination of diegetic and non-diegetic sound• Violins – classical music • Rhythm speeds up whenever something is about to be

revealed (e.g. Chloe wandering around the house until she finds Nick in the basement) and then slows down • Nursery rhymes (to accompany the crying sound of

babies as there’s a family of dead ghosts – previous tenants)

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Editing • For the scene where Chloe starts screaming in the

basement – the screen goes black and only her screaming can be heard for a few seconds then next scene. • Most scenes are going to occur at night time (therefore

we could number each night like ‘Night One, Night Two’ etc. to show or we could also emphasise this point by the use of clothing so different pyjamas every night, different hair styles)

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Marketing• Youtube – link to trailer (banner)• Advertised on TV after American Horror Story – same

genre• Posters at cinema/bus etc• Release a ‘ghost’ video that looks real – target is for it to

cause controversy worldwide and become viral then reveal after that it was actually a marketing campaign for the movie. This would make the public curious about the movie.

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Audience

• The target audience for this film is people in their 20’s who are carefree workers. The people that this film is marketed for are part of the main audience for most cinemas, therefore meaning that we would be more likely to receive higher grossing figures at the box office.• So that a larger amount of people would be able to see it we would

release this film in around the Summer time as this is when people take their holiday off work so are going to have free time to come and see it.• Also as our target audience are all over 15 it means that they will all

still be able to watch it even with the 15 rating due to the scenes of a scary and violent nature.

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Enigma Codes• Throughout this film we want the audience to be asking

questions that are revealed at the end in order to keep them gripped and watching until the end.• So we would want them to be asking, “Why does Nick

wantal them dead?” and “Why are these things happening to them?”• This also inserts mystery and suspicion into the film as

it leaves the audience guessing.