1. Setting –
The main setting for our film is going to be a dark and secluded forest, it will be a fairly unknown environment to the characters, with high trees enclosed together restricting the view of the group of characters. Adding the factor of poor winter weather to this mix, which will also make the environment a lot mistier and dead looking due to the trees looking bare and bleak and complete darkness stretched over the surrounding areas, the setting will look very creepy and mysterious, which in turn will add to the terror factor of our film.
2. Protagonist and antagonist –
The antagonists for our film are a group of people that have been forced out of society because of their differences, and due to this happening they have had to revert back to their animal instincts and turn into cannibals. They will be rather heavily disfigured, with very limited speech, and will show their personality/characteristics through their actions and behaviour rather than narration and hat they say.
The protagonist for our film is a believable well rounded character that audiences can possibly relate to and understand. He will start off being a character that audiences might not feel as sympathetic for, as he is a bit of a ‘jack the lad’ character who isn’t really grateful or values his life, but after his friends lives being put in danger, and successfully escaping the forest, he then values his life more and is grateful for what he has, and I think that audiences will be able to like the character more after this.
Our chacrter could be compared to 'Tyler Moon' from Eastenders.
3. 3 Act Structure –
1st The set up: The set up for our film is, a group of friends are looking to get to a party but are quite late and are not sure in which way to go, they ask for help from a stranger at the road side, and end up getting incredibly lost in a forest.
2nd The setback: The setback for our film is that whilst the characters are lost they begin to lose people in the group, and discover they are being hunted by a group of inbreds that live in the forest.
3rd The resolution: The resolution for our film is that the protagonist defeats the inbreds and manages to escape the forest with his life, which he now values a lot more than he originally did.
Theory:
1. Binary opposition – The binary opposites that we have chosen for our film is, Disfigured vs regular people. We chose this because not only can we make the characters look realistic with the use of makeup, it is also an interesting binary opposite, that isn’t used a lot in classical horror films and will make our film unique from others.
2. Character type - In our film we will have a Protagonist, who will be believable and likable for the audience, as he will have traits that many people have/ encounter day to day. We will also have an antagonist, we will follow some conventions of a traditional horror villain, but will also have some non conventional traits. We will do this by our villain having ripped/torn clothing that will be covered in blood, and they will look unusual and non human like, but they will differ from the conventions as they will have modern clothing with normal colours, instead of dark mysterious clothing. Another characters we are including is the Donor, who in our film will be giving the protagonist the gift of life by sacrificing himself, and will be one of the protagonist friends in our plot. The heroine is our film will be in the form of prize and will be the prize of life that the characters will have to earn after their ordeal and journey. The last character type that we are including is a sidekick, which is will all of the protagonists friends that are in our film.
The link above shows many different examples of stock characters ranging the original acient history characters, to some more recent and modern characters.
3. Equilibrium theory –
Equilibrium: A group of friends get lost in a dark forest after asking and getting the wrong directions to a party.
Disequilibrium: Whilst the scene is darkening and the characters remain trapped they realise that they are being hunted by a group of inbreds that inhabit the forest.
New State Equilibrium: The protagonist defeats the villains and escapes luckily with his life which he now values a lot more than previously and his remaining friends.
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