Development

Sixteen year old Hannah starts her summer with a big move to a new town. The town is small and old fashioned, and its as if everybody who lives there is stuck in their ways and moreover stuck in the past. The house she moves into is big and old to contribute to the eery sense of the move and as an obvious component of a horror.  Hannah goes out to familiarise herself with her new surroundings and begins to resent her parents for the move as she doesn't like the new place and how quiet and conformist it is. She meets some people of a similar age down by a lake in a forest on the edge of town. She begins to become good friends with them and soon the summer has gone by and she has spent the majority of it with her new friends. Eventually summer is over and it is time to start school so she looks for her new friends on Facebook and finds it strange when she can't find them. After starting school she looks for the friends she spent summer with whilst in school but never sees them during only after when they meet by the lake. Her parents begin to worry when Hannah is never home and always out with her 'new friends', although never seen with them by the tight knit community. After being told that Hannah is often seen wandering and sitting alone her parents worry more and the school gets involved. Waiting outside for a parent teacher consultation about her she begins to look at the old photographs of previous school years on the wall by the office. Peering closely on the bottom left row of a photograph labelled 1972.. she sees the familiar faces of the four friends she's been searching for.

• Were in the head teacher class
• went missing shortly after the photo was taken (1972)
• never found. (possible title)
• also could include romance with one of the friends.

Episodes to have different names like I found in my research of teen series.

I.e: 

1st episode - The Move.

2nd episode - 1972

Themes:

Supernatural

Horror

Mystery

Love

Friendships

Family

Character development:

Hannah - sixteen years old

friends:

Amara = eternal

Adriana = dark one

twins Scott and Wade = wanderer

I chose to base the series in a school to relate to my target audience of teenagers. The majority of characters will be teenagers as well, including the protagonist. The remaining characters will still be relatable to teens as they will be teachers and parents. I wanted the series to be more supernatural than horror with an element of mystery and the fear of the unknown. To keep it interesting the protagonist will realise something is wrong within the first few episodes and her parents and teachers before, even in the first episode. This is to keep it within the supernatural genre otherwise it would be at risk of being a teen drama. In my research I looked at a few american teen dramas within the supernatural genre such as twisted, the vampire diaries and pretty little liars. All of these seem to be based in a small town in America, with a group of friends, a romance and a school setting. These shows seem to get a lot of interest from teenage audiences and so i followed their conventions.