Since our group pitch plot as a group we have decided to rewrite our trailer plot but still using certain aspects of our first plot. We sat down as a group and discussed what was wrong with our first plot, we knew as a group that is was not scary enough for the genre and we were not proceeding as quickly as we would have liked to.
We all agree with our new trailer plot and
have planned our story board already into sections where we can individually
create our story board pictures.
Katie is a 20 year old student living with her
friends her in old family home. Her father had died in the home because of an
accident when she turned 18. Her mother killed herself in prison when Katie was
5 but she never understood why her mother was in prison. She knew she had
killed her best friend in the house she was living in but never understood why.
When she starts to investigate her mother’s life she discovers that her mother
Elizabeth was a kind person and the murder couldn’t be explained by anyone. Her
friend Lucas finds a diary in the attic which is written by a woman called
Helena in 1936 and describes her affair with a married man named William.
William’s wife Katherine was Helena’s best friend. She wrote about how scared
she was becoming because of Katherine’s
behaviour, Katherine seemed to be acting very suspicious and often screamed at
her in a wild temper.
Katie is concerned about her past and paranoid
because she realises Katherine was her ancestor. Her best friend Lucy says
there is nothing to worry about and she should forget about what had happened
but then strange events unfold. The house grows cold, they hear distant screams
and photos of her mother and father are moved around and broken.
One morning the students come down into the
kitchen and everything has been trashed except for the diary Lucas found which
is untouched open on the floor. She looks in the mirror and it smashes over
her. Matthew is paranoid about what has happened and tries to convince everyone
they should leave and as he drags Katie out of the door with bags in the
hallway he flies out of the door and is hit by a car. Only a scream and the
skid of the car are heard.
A few months later (shots would show a change
from summer to winter) Katherine says she is pregnant and they all notice that
the haunting has stopped but a year later after her son is born Katherine gets
frustrated and is upset constantly. She sees Lucas with Lucy together and
thinks Lucas is cheating on her. As her suspicions build she follows Lucy to
her lectures etc.
Lucas connects her suspicions with those of
her ancestor Katherine from in the diary. He researches the past events and
realises that Katie’s mother killed her best friend because she thought she was
having an affair. He rushes back to the house and sees Katie stood behind Lucy
with a knife as he fights her to steal the knife he is stabbed in the chest and
falls to the floor.
As he is dying he says to her it’s Helena who
has been haunting them and he loves her alone. As he says this, there is a yell
from upstairs footsteps can be heard as the ghost rushes down to kill Lucy and
Katie, glasses fly everywhere the doors are locking and as they rush out to the
window they decide to jump together. Katie apologies for her acts, apologises
to her baby who is crying upstairs, pushes Lucy into the room to jump out of
the window alone, because she knows the Ghost only wants her. At the end of the
film Lucy would be seen older and looking after the son named Lucas who is sat
studying a box of items from his old house including Helena’s diary.
