Coursework Idea and Research

Teen horror series – post water shed:

20 episodes

Half an hour each

Supernatural/ thriller

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• ·         Autumn weekend, a teenage girl moves to a new town with her family and enrols at local school.

• ·          She argues with her parents about the move and leaves the house to see the new town.

• ·          The setting of woodland and a lake, she meets a group of people her age who say they attend the school she is due to start.

• ·         Spends a few hours with them and goes back home.  Starts school on the Monday and all week looks for the friends she made.

• ·         Goes to the same place the following weekend and they’re not there so begins to ask around about them.

• Looks through an old year book and sees them, 1970...

• ·          Asks her teacher about them and the teacher tells her that she went to school with them and  the 4 friends ‘went missing in the 1970's’.  Newspaper article - mysterious disappearance.

• ·         Leads to series of supernatural events, dark woodland settings as she meets them again and loss of real friendships.

Research:

Similar to ABC’s teen series twisted. The same sort of idea with a small town and mysterious happenings and events.  Also a group of friends with a school setting and a  female protagonist to appear more vulnerable and therefore scarier.

Similar to Sixth Sense in that as we watch the film the audience believe the people Bruce Willis are meeting are real as does he. The end of the film is when the audience find out that they are ghosts however this will become apparent in the first few episodes of mine to keep it interesting.