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We're Alive- Rough Trailer Cut

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Props and Costume List

Scene one:
·         White, red and dead roses.
·         Memorial posters
·         Ribbon
·         Petals
Scene two:
·         Clipboard
·         Profiles
·         Beaker filled with ‘chemicals’
·         Bible
·         Religious imagery (bread and wine)
·         Children’s toys 
·         White coats
Scene three
·         Fake gun
·         Computer monitor
·         Chair
·         Table
·         White coats
·         Cross ( for the key hole shot)
Scene four
·         Police officers outfits
·         Blue flashing lights
·         Van
·         Guns
Scene five
·         Table
·         Chairs
Scene six
·         A house
·         A front door
·         A living room
·         Toys and books
Scene seven
·         A hospital looking building
·         Knife
Scene eight
·         White coats
·         Separate rooms with chairs in


Costume

·         Two dresses
·         Ribbons
·         Suit
·         Flat shoes
·         Jeans and tops
·         Smart clothes
·         Tights

·         Tie 

Script

Scene one

We are presented with a memorial shot of a remembrance of the missing children. The children’s photos are laid on the ground, surrounded by several pictures of them and some flowers. A woman is standing over the memorial, crying. She begins to replace some of the dead flowers lay upon the ground and against the fence. The petals from the dead flowers fall against the pictures as they are being picked up.

Scene two

A scientist walks down the corridor, holding a checklist of names. We see a beaker with harmful chemicals. The scientist opens the door, and she looks at the three children.

Scene three

We see the children playing with their toys, and they all see the bread and wine which has been carefully placed. The wine and bread are left half consumed. The children look ‘normal’ however their mannerisms are withdrawn and they come across as shy.

The camera fades to black.

Scene four

A CCTV POV shot shows us that the scientist is unconscious and laying on the floor. All three of the children are looking at the camera. James picks up a gun and proceeds to point it at the camera. The camera is then shot, and the camera lens is broken.

Scene five

The secretary is typing on the computer, and then the screen starts to glitch and break. The monitor then begins to crack and the secretary hits the monitor multiple times. The phone begins to ring, but the ringing tone is drained and dulled.

Scene six

An alarm is dominating the audio, and a police van pulls up. The POV shot of the child in the middle follows the police officers as they approach the children, they are close to the camera, and the officers’ dialogue is muffled.

Police Officer #1:  Don’t panic! You’re coming with us, there is no need to worry.

Police Officer #2: we have found three children, over.

The voices of the police officers become inaudible completely.

Scene seven

News Report

VO: Three children have been found after ten years of them being missing.
We see the children’s pictures of them being taken away from the facility.

Scene eight

We see Eve arriving at the front door of her house and we see her parents happy to see her.
We also see Mary arrive home to her mother.
We see James being taken straight into a psychiatric hospital to be ‘treated’

Scene nine

We are inside Mary’s house inside the living room where Mary is sat watching her mother’s every move with a blank expression on her face.
Mary’s mother: I have something that belonged to you before you were taken
We see Mary’s mother go up the stairs to retrieve the toy, then we see he clasping a toy and swiftly makes her way down the stairs.
Mary’s mother:  Mary? Mary where are you?
We see Mary appear behind her mother in a demonic state.
Camera fades to black

Scene ten

We see Mary and Eve both approaching the hospital where James is being held. We see them entering the building.
Blackout

Scene eleven

We see candles in a circle on the floor and as the camera pans up to see all three ‘perfect’ teenagers standing in a circle holding hands.
We are able to hear a music box in the background.
The last shot is of all three children walking towards the camera.
Blackout  

Scene twelve

The tagline appears on screen and the movie information.
ALL THREE: In the name of the father, son and holy spirit Amen.  

Blackout and the rest of the information about the film including release date.

Shot List

1)      Memorial shot.  Flower shots and petals falling past the pictures of the children
2)      Scientist walking down the corridor with a clipboard featuring medical profiles of the children and a glass beaker full of chemicals.
3)      Shot of three children being read to from a bible
4)      Back to the scientist entering the room. We are able to observe the three ‘dead’ playing in a room. The children are now ten years older. We see the bread and wine on the floor.
5)      Fade to black and the glass smashes
6)      CCTV camera effect (black and white) static. We see the scientist on the floor. James picks up the scientists gun and we see all three teenagers look at the camera and James shoots the gun.
7)      We see security tapping a computer/ TV/ tablet screen as the picture has frozen and as they do so Eve and Mary appear behind them.
8)      Key hole shot from inside to outside
9)      We hear the sound of commotion as the teenagers are captured
10)   Newspaper shot with the title ‘the missing children have been found’
11)   Twin shots of Eve and Mary being returned to their parents homes in their new demonic/ perfection state
12)   Cut to a shot of James in a dark room similar to the one he was held in as a child.
13)   Show a shot of Mary standing in the front room and her mother happy to see her.
14)   Mary’s mother walks up the stairs to retrieve a child’s toy.
15)   When the mother came back down Mary had gone or so she thought. Shot of Mary standing behind her mother
16)   Blackout
17)   Shot of Eve and Mary approaching a building where James is being Held
18)   Black out
19)   Shot of all three standing in a circle holding hands and praying.
20)   Voice over “In the name of the father, son and holy spirit Amen”
21)   Film title fades in

22)   Film tagline appears along with information  

Trailer Synopsis- Key Events

1)      Memorial shot.  Flower shots and petals falling past the pictures of the children

2)      Scientist walking down the corridor with a clipboard featuring medical profiles of the children and a glass beaker full of chemicals.

3)      Shot of three children being read to from a bible.

4)      Back to the scientist entering the room. We are able to observe the three ‘dead’ playing in a room. The children are now ten years older. We see the bread and wine on the floor.

5)      Fade to black and BAM the glass smashes.

6)      CCTV camera effect (black and white) static. We see the scientist on the floor. James picks up the scientists gun and we see all three teenagers look at the camera and James shoots the gun.

7)      We see security tapping a computer/ TV/ tablet screen as the picture has frozen and as they do so Eve and Mary appear behind them.

8)      Key hole shot from inside to outside.

9)      We hear the sound of commotion as the teenagers are captured.

10)   Newspaper shot with the title ‘the missing children have been found’.

11)   Twin shots of Eve and Mary being returned to their parents homes in their new demonic/ perfection state.

12)   Cut to a shot of James in a dark room similar to the one he was held in as a child.

13)   Show a shot of Mary standing in the front room and her mother happy to see her.

14)   Mary’s mother walks up the stairs to retrieve a child’s toy.

15)   When the mother came back down Mary had gone or so she thought. Shot of Mary standing behind her mother.

16)   Blackout.

17)   Shot of Eve and Mary approaching a building where James is being Held.

18)   Black out.

19)   Shot of all three standing in a circle holding hands and praying.

20)   Voice over “In the name of the father, son and holy spirit Amen”.

21)   Film title fades in.

22)   Film tagline appears along with information.

Group Synopsis final- 'We're Alive'

'We're Alive' – 

Synopsis:

In 1995, a group of Religious fanatics had a belief that God created man to carry out the task which he could not complete himself: Create the perfect human. After fashioning a secret cult hidden beneath the Monastery they attended and as time went on, they turned to more extreme measures of making a person pure. It involved kidnapping school children from the nearby town and performing various genetic and psychological experiments on them. In total, three were captured; an eight year old boy named James and two seven year old girls named Eve and Mary.

In the beginning, the results were promising. Aside from a few minor deformities, the Subjects showed increased levels of passivity and calmness. These experiments continued for ten years, resulting in a sudden change of behavior from the Subjects and making them see everything through their eyes as sin apart from themselves.

During a routine testing, the Subjects escaped their confinement to wreak havoc upon the facility, murdering everyone inside. Upon escaping and making their way to the police, the children were returned to their homes with the exception of James who needed immediate psychiatric treatment.

After hearing of the news of their ally getting incarcerated, Eve and Mary made their way to the Psychiatric Hospital James is being kept at, found James' ward and killed the doctors attending to him. However, the police are soon alerted to their location and cause the Subjects to unleash a horde of mental patients upon them and make their escape.
With an uncertain future ahead of them and the blood of countless "sinners" on their hands, the three Subjects head out of town towards an unknown location.

Villain: “Final Girl” (Opposite to traditional “Final Girl” as well as good final girl = doctor)
Subject 1: James – Genetic trait: Tendencies to spontaneously murder.
Subject 2: Eve – Genetic trait: Psychological manipulation.
Subject 3: Mary – Genetic trait: Frequent mood alterations.

Own Synopsis Idea

I'm calling it Hunted.

There is a small British country side where our main protagonist wakes up to find they are in a different world, though our protagonist doesn't realize this at this point. The surroundings are quiet and the protagonist is oblivious to what had just happened. The country side is somewhat abandoned, and all that can be heard is the sounds of the wildlife. The pacing of the story is somewhat slow at this point, then a bleeping noise can be heard and the protagonist needs to run.

The protagonist realizes they needed some supplies, like food and drink, so in order to survive they have to loot some nearby abandoned houses. The protagonist also have to find a weapon whilst also dodging the robot enemies. The protagonist also needs to find distraction and vantage points to obtain the Stone Pieces which are guarded by robots that intend to kill the protagonist on sight. The protagonist must collect a certain amount of stones to actually get back home.

The robots intend to keep the humans away from their world by hunting and killing them with firearms. The protagonist has to use wit and agility to dodge and sneak past the hunting robots.

The story will continue with someone else ending up in the world, so then they decide to team up. 

The both manage to collect all of the pieces, but the main character had been caught by a bullet, leading the story to end in an abrupt cut to black.


This idea is based on a game called 'Sir, You are Being Hunted' where you as the player have to use wit and agility to dodge the robots. The player also has a choice to use combat to flee the robots. I found that if the story was somewhat adapted to a horror, the story could work. Usually within the game the player is always on edge, so this tension can be used effectively to create a good horror trailer.