Monday, 28 January 2013

The Structure of our Film

Looking at the plot of our film and other films of the thriller genre, we can apply the three act structure to help make our idea clear and concise.

ACT ONE
Act One introduces a group of friends and the modern day setting. Sat on a beach by a campfire in the evening, the teenagers are filming for a college project week. One of the friends leaves the group, wandering off into the woods and soon followed by another friend. After an argument the first friend leaves, leaving the second friend alone. The second friend is then brutally murdered and attacked, showing the significant event that leads the film into Act Two.

ACT TWO
In Act Two, the first friend is initially blamed for the murder, but gradually as they go about their daily lives each of the friends begin to be picked off one by one, facing brutal and gruesome deaths similar to the first, the first friend is believed to be innocent. It's then that the remaining friends go on a search for the killer before they are all killed. Looking at the clues and evidence, they blame an loner they once excluded from their group and with only two of the friends remaining, they search the house for the camera the killer stole, looking at the footage of their friends deaths. Before they can leave, the killer returns.

ACT THREE
After a struggle one of the friends is killed and the loner severely injured and bitter of the betrayal of the group for excluding them and leaving them alone. The first friend grabs the camera and runs to the police, but as the police return they find the loner has committed suicide, leaving a bloodied note on the wall 'I'll find you in the afterlife'.
The first friend leaves the house and police, realising they are the last one standing.

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