My Original Idea

Title-Untitled

Duration-5 Minutes

Rating-15, due to strong violence.

Target audience-Teenage audience, aged 15-20 interested in horror/thriller

Synopsis-The film starts at a crime scene, a house with police crime scene tape around it, the main character a police investigator, smartly dressed in a suit. As he arrives and looks around the crime scene we get to see what really happened.
As the investigator stands and looks at the house we see the first flashback, a young female owned the house she looks outside her window to the same place where the investigator would have been, to see a strange man looking towards the house, although startled she shuts the curtains and returns to what she was doing.
Then the investigator moves up to the house and to the entrance where we see the door has been kicked in and the lock broken. A flashback reveals the hearing a knock on the door, she asks who it is and tells him to leave but he starts banging the door and kicking it in, eventually it breaks open and we see the face of the man which reveals he is wearing a mask.
Moving into the house the investigator finds broken picture frames on the floor, where the woman was pinned up against the wall before managing to get away and run towards the kitchen.
In the kitchen we see a knife on the floor covered in blood it leads a trail towards a cupboard. In side the investigator finds the body.
A final flashback reveals the man grabbing a knife in the kitchen and stabbing the woman before dragging her to the cupboard, as he shuts the door and walks away he removes his mask to which we see that he is actually the police investigator, cutting back to the present the man walks away from his house with a smile on his face and gets into his car, where we see the mask on his passenger seat.

Alternative ending:
As the fight in the kitchen happens, it is cut so we cannot tell who has been stabbed, we don't see any faces and then just see the feet as they are dragged towards the cupboard. Cutting back to the present the investigator opens the cupboard door to reveal the masked mans body.

Suggested Elements-flashbacks, allow a more in depth view of the story to the audience.

Rhythmic editing, music that matches what is happening in the film.

Match on action as the flashbacks match where the investigator was, eg looking at the house a shot such as a tilt down to the investigators feet, cut to the flashback starting with a tilt up from the masked mans feet.