A2 Media Studies Summary

At the start of coursework production, we had extremely high ambitions to create a film that would be equal to the short films we were researching on Youtube and the internet in general. Whilst this meant we were full of ideas for the film we were excited to make, it also presented many problems throughout the process. The process of creating the film was tedious at times, as we were presented with problems that we were unable to effect. From booking days to film, only to be told we could not could not film at the last minute, to losing our footage due to a small setting error that we failed to pick up, the filming process was not the smooth one we had pictured. A lot of this was due down to lack of communication on both sides, and with more planning perhaps this could have been presented. The film itself may have it's problems, but it was definitely a learning process all the way through for all of us involved.

Matthew Healey

HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

Here is a timelapse of me going through both the designing process of the poster and magazine. 

Magazine Article: 

Poster:

 

This video was created with http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ and edited with adobe premiere pro.

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?

PART 2:

Using the audience feedback we learnt a number of things about our film. We showed the film to people both in, and outside our target audience, so we could get the best reaction and feedback from both. We asked them a series of questions of what they generally thought about the film, as well as what they thought could be improved. 

All the people we talked to had positive points to make about the way in which the different soundtracks used fitted in story of the film, however the sound also had some negative feedback as well. People felt that at times the sound jumps in volume were jarring and took away from the what was going one the screen at the time. This hurt one of our overall themes of the film, in that we wanted to create a tense atmosphere the audience could get lost in, and if the sound jumps took the audience out, the overall product suffered along with it. There was also confusion with this problem, in the early parts of the film we wanted to have a soundtrack playing over the dialogue, but this was viewed as being an actual problem for the film, rather than being an effective technique, which is what we were trying to portray. In the future, we will plan out the plans for the audio before principal photography, rather than in editing, like we did here. 

The audience members asked enjoyed the film, and some were still thinking of the ending, which is exactly what we were trying to do, leaving a lasting impression on the audience was a big part of our film, and the fact we were able to do that was satisfying. One negative, which could even be interpreted as a positive, is that the audience wanted more at the end, they wanted to learn about the characters and their story, but also wanted a longer build up to the reveal, which they felt would be more effective for the overall film. Whilst we agree we could have made the film slightly longer, we were also trying to fit in with conventions of the short film. The contradictions that came up surrounding this, and the pros and cons is maybe something we should have gone over, as the length of the film is very important part of the short film genre. We were going the idea that showing less would be a good thing, but sometimes it's the case that not enough is shown, and that could be seen as the case for some parts of our film. 

In terms of the Psychological Thriller, I believe that we met the criteria of the genre codes and conventions. Each audience member was able to guess was the genre of the film was, and some even commented on the similarities to another thriller film, Fight Club , which was another part of our original plan - to be a clear genre film. 


We also received positive feedback from social media, which also allowed us to showcase our film to a larger audience. 

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?

Part 1:

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Part 1:

The genre of our film is Psychological thriller, so we felt that the target demographic age would those aged between 18 and up. At the start of the film we talked about making the film having an 18 age rating, but due to the lack of graphic violence, the film would be rated 15, so those under the age of 18 could see it, but we still felt that the older audience were the more likely audience for the film. Whilst is may be have been okay for 15 year olds to see the film, we deal with violent underlying themes, which may seem distressing to some. That is why we didn't hold anything back when marketing the film in the magazine article and poster, we wanted to show that there would be violence, and the film will be dealing with subject matters, that some members of the audience may not be comfortable watching.

In terms of the social demographics, we aimed the marketing of the film as a C1, the lower middle class. The characters in the story are reflective of the social class in the film, and while we do no think that they might see themselves reflected in the characters, they will have a better understanding of who they are. We also targeted them through the magazine article; it takes a lot influence from Empire which also targets the C1 class.

The target gender for the film was very split, but the female audience took it, just because, as discovered through audience research, they were the ones who had enjoyed Psychological Thriller films like Donnie Darko  , Mulholland Drive  and Black Swan  the most. This is almost a separate type of Psychological Thriller, one that focuses in on one or two characters, and really gets inside their mind rather than films like The Usual Suspects and Inception, with more action scenes and a larger cast, which seemed to be favoured with the males.


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How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Part 2:
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?


When we about designing the film, magazine article and poster, we decided that we should try and link and incorporate them together through the use of different elements. From the fonts we used for the poster, to the colours of the magazine to the characters themselves. These different elements would be exhibited through the three different ancillary texts.

Firstly, the film poster. When making the poster, I wanted to incorporate a style that would fit in with the overall product. The majority of the film uses dark and bleak colours, but I felt that using a different style for the poster, that still attributed to with the themes of the film. I wanted to use a 'blood' styling for the poster, to show the story behind the film, rather than what went on in the films narrative. I used a downloaded font  The poster is unique for it's genre, the typical psychological thriller poster, which normally focuses on the central actor like in Shutter Islands and the Fight Club poster, but this does not really show this, but more of a reflection of what we wanted to show with our film  - the idea of 'shocking' the audience, having a generic poster with dark colour schemes does not necessarily stand out or shock the audience, but a poster that incorporates taboo elements like blood will be more effective on the spectatorship front. The poster brings in the audience because it is different for it's genre and eye catching - we are targeting not just an audience suited to the genre, but ones who are hoping a reboot, a refreshment, and the poster is a clear indication that we are trying to that. 

For the magazine article, unlike the poster where I wanted to somewhat differentiate from the film, for the article I wanted to try and talk about the key aspects of the film, and this includes talking about the main colour scheme, which would be dark colours. The magazine itself may not use dark colours, but the images that we grabbed from the film can used to summarize how we are trying to represent the film through other forms. The magazine style is also reflective of the target audience - it takes a lot of influence from the Empire reviews, who's audience are not exactly niche, and is fact more mainstream, but is not for the 'transformers' crowd, it would be for people who enjoy film for what it is, they may not study it, but they will have an appreciation for what the film is and what it is doing for the audience. 

 





















In terms of the film itself fits in with the elements I have already said. The opening font used for the credits is very plain, unlike the poster, but this was done to fit in the characters of the film. Both Henry and the Psychopath have that manic side, which is what we see in the film, but Henry is also meant to be interpreted as, at least one point, to be normal, shown through the costuming and style of hair used for the film. Henry is very button down, and has a straight 'white collar' look about him, compared to the more rugged Psychopath. This fits in with the way we have set them up in the magazine and poster, yes there is the twist, but we wanted, to not give the plot, set them up with the use of other elements as being more straightforward characters, before challenging this in the film. By showing the characters in their costumes in other media, we have created an icon, something for the audience to reflect on before they had even seen the film. 

The colour scheme and lighting used throughout the film correlates well with the rest of the project, here are two separate shots, one with a very obvious bright lighting effect, and the other more dark. Going back to the representation of the characters before the film, it could said that the bright side is a reflection of Henry, and that the dark would show the Psychopath. This would be typical convention of the psychological thriller, to use contrasting editing and lighting techniques, but fitting in line with the twist ending that Henry and the Psychopath being the same person, the light and darkness in fact the same person. This goes back to us wanting to 'toy' with the audience, not just throughout the film, but through the poster and the magazine article as well.

We set up a typical thriller film, and market it as such, with hints here and there, which was done purposely to draw a reaction from the target audience - a audience who have become accustomed to the norm due to the over saturation of the market. We had an audience in mind, and pulled them in, and we also had ideas and themes we wanted to showcase through all stages of the film, and all elements of further media. 

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Length

Our short film is, all together, 3 minutes and 45 seconds long. The length fits with the short film conventions in that it is not too long, but not short enough that the narrative would not make sense, which is important for a film of our genre. 




Storyline

The storyline from our film is individualistic from other films of the psychological thriller in the sense that we tell most of our story through camera angles and other non verbal means. The lack of narration, which we see in many other psychological thriller films such as Fight Club, means that the film has an extra usp, which allowed us to experiment through editing and camera work so we could still tell the story we wanted to tell, even with a lack of dialogue throughout. We felt that leaving the audience with an understanding of the film was key, and that if we'rent able to properly explain the film without a dialogue, we wouldn't do the film like this, bit it turned out, through audience research, that the story was easy to identify. 

Characters

In 'Twisted' we kept within another short film convention in only having a small number of characters, Mary, Henry and the psychopath. This allowed us to flesh out the relationship between Henry and the psychopath, the mystery surrounding the two was a key part in drawing in the audience. They want to know who the psychopath is, why he killed Henry's wife, they want to know how they got there, where exactly they are, and is Henry who he claims he is? The questions that is brought up by audience trying to understand the characters is a common convention of the genre, and we try to replicate it here. 

Twist

Another convention of the psychological thriller, and the short film genre, which we adopted was the 'twist ending'. Our film was built around the twist, we wanted to build a tense atmosphere for the film so that the audience would not necessarily be shocked when the twist when it happened, but rather that they hanging on for it to finally happen. The name of the film, 'Twisted' both hints towards this, as well as being a representation of the state of mind of the two central characters. The twist in our film is that the Henry and the man he is accusing of murdering his wife are in fact the same person, meaning that Henry is in fact the psychopath. The twist is built up slowly, we see the psychopath first before Henry is introduced on screen. This sets up an air of uncertainty in the mind of the audience, as we slowly learn the details of the plot through flashback scenes. The flashback scene is then later re shown with Henry in place of the murderer, making it clear that they are in fact the same person. 

Budget and Creativity 

Our film was made with almost no budget whatsoever, keeping in line with other independent short films. We used props that had we had on us, and used a friends house as the main location. If we had a larger budget however, I do not feel as if the film would change that much. We wanted to use a typical house as the main location, so we would not need a budget for that, the only thing that might change would be the use of blood in the film. We encountered problems putting blood onto the film in post production as we felt it looked 'cheap', so with a larger budget we could have paid for so we used of make up to give the film and extra 'gritty' feel to it. 

Distribution

As a short, independent film, we felt that the majority of our audience would be online. We did not have the large companies to market and mass produce, so posting the film in it's entirety on Youtube was the best way to gain a larger audience.

EVALUATION QUESTION - IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Describe the creative process of laying out the cover


I first created the template size for the magazine article (210x297) and placed the central main image on the magzine so I had something to design around. I pulled the image from the Youtube video of my film, and made it clearer by enhancing it with brightness and contrast settings. 

I then added the border around the picture, and also added a middle line to the article to give it a unique feel and make it stand out. 

After the border was done, I added the logo to the article. On the left hand side is the name of magazine 'Now Showing' which again is red and white to fit in with the rest of the colour scheme. The 'Twisted a Review' was placed on the right hand side of the page, and was also overlaid the main picture to give it the effect that it was just a cut and paste article. Also added was a small box, giving a quick general background of what the film is about. 

I then added another, smaller grab from the film and the star ratings. 

With that done, I added the review I had typed out before hand and centred it on the page. 

Finished article: 

EVALUATION QUESTION - IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Magazine Review

EVALUATION QUESTION - IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

EVALUATION QUESTION - IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Poster: How did you go about designing your poster? pt 2

I initially decided to use both characters for my film poster, but decided against this as I believe that it would give away the twist in the film, so, using the influence of the Dark Knight poster, I used the main 'villain for the film. 

First I cut out the face from the picture I wanted to use and deleted the background. I then applied the notepad filter to the picture, giving it the threshold effect. I replaced the colour with a red on that would fit the blood design and deleted the white part of the picture so it would appear somewhat transparent. 

With the main face done, I needed a background for my film. First I tried a plain white background, but with that looking a bit plain, I decided to use a white brick background found here: http://scenarhome.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Painting-Brick-Walls-95.jpg This background was not too noticeable, but helped make the poster seem more unique, giving the blood splatter a graffiti type feel to it as well. 

With the central image and the background done, I wanted to add some additional images that would fit in the blood splatter theme, but not take away from the main picture. First I downloaded two separate images, one from:  http://www.dundjinni.com/forums/uploads/supercaptain/Blood_splatter_4-sc.png and the other from: http://www.dundjinni.com/forums/uploads/supercaptain/Blood_splatter_3-sc.png With the two high quality pictures downloaded I placed them on the poster to the side of the main image as this was the best place I decided they could be. I then changed the brightness and colour of the images to fit in with the main image so they would appear to be as one, rather stand out on its own. 

With the images all done,all I needed to add now was the text, first being the credits along the bottom of the poster. Instead of manually typing this out, I downloaded a template for it and added that to the bottom. (Downloaded from:  https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AqFcKvh0DHM/TdsweATIeII/AAAAAAAAAIw/hzrYuDOZ8kM/s1600/postercredits_3lines_left_tall.png) 

I then had to add the remaining text, the first being the name of the film. I downloaded a couple of different fonts from dafont.com  but couldn't find one I wanted, so I searched around the internet until I found the one I wanted. It was call 'youmurderedbb' and was downloaded from: http://www.fontspace.com/blambot/youmurderer-bb 

With the main font done, i needed to add the names to the poster. I decided against adding too many credit names along the top and placed them at the bottom instead. I used a movie poster style font downloaded from http://www.dafont.com/sf-movie-poster.font?text=sf+movie which for the directors name.  

Finished poster: 

Poster draft.

Even though my final poster has been created:
Here is anearlier edition of the poster which my final design was influenced by.

      

EVALUATION QUESTION - IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

Poster: How did you go about designing your poster?

Typically, posters for psychological films follow the same format, they use a dark background and feature the main actor in a similar gloomy expression. For my film poster I wanted to change this, but still keep it in line that it is a psychological thriller. 

I wanted to take two successful poster styles and merge them together for my own film. I used the styling of 'In the Land of Blood and Honey', with the blood splatter forming the image and used the message behind the poster for 'the Dark Knight', using the psycho 'bad guy' with a 'happy' expression, with combined with the blood shows his insanity. 

Both of these aren't psychological thrillers, but they both portray a message that I wanted to replicate in my film. 

GIF from Short Film

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MAGAZINE REVIEW PAGE

Group Roles

Cinematographer - Jack Quinlan

Sound Editor - Jack Quinlan

Editor - Matt Healey

Director - Matt Healey, Jack Quinlan

Cast

Psychopath - Matt Healey

Henry - James Robinson

Mary - Jakiya Sultana

Unnamed Victim - Natasha Sizer

The Friend - Jack Quinlan

NEW PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

'Twisted' - A2 Short Film

Codes And Conventions Of Magazine Film Review Pages

The first thing to notice in Enpire's review of Avatar is the use of two pages. The review itself could fit onto just one page, but with dominating images being used, the feature prehaps the two pages. A big reason that this review uses big images despite having a small review is becase at the time, Avatar was a big blockbuster film and giving it a large selection of the magazine would have been done in most reviews.

A2 Media Studies Poster

BEHIND SCENES PICTURES FROM FILMING THE INTERROGATION SCENES

BEHIND SCENES PICTURES FROM FILMING THE INTERROGATION SCENES

This was created from using the 'Make a GIF' website http://makeagif.com/

SOUND DESIGN

For our film production we are going to use a number of different soundtracks and sound effects and I will be layering these sound effects in order to generate a powerful and atmospheric vibe to the short film. Using these sounds from various websites such as http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?feels%5B%5D=Intense&page=5

and http://soundbible.com/2069-Realistic-Punch.html to help with this and further more I will also be using numerous sound effects from the video co-pilot files.

NEW PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

G324 Advanced Portfolio : Group Roles

Group Roles

Cinematographer - Jack Quinlan

Sound Editor - Jack Quinlan

Editor - Matt Healey

Director - Matt Healey, Jack Quinlan

Cast

Psychopath - Matt Healey

Henry - James Robinson

Mary - Jakiya Sultana

Unnamed Victim - Natasha Sizer

The Friend - Jack Quinlan

AUDIENCE PROFILE

The demographics for my target audience are those who are aged at 18 to 24. The reason for this is is that the short film will contain graphic images and violent underlying themes, that the effect theory would show to be as desensitization for younger audiences. Also in terms of psychographics, the short film is a thought provoking piece designed to make the audience uncomfortable and to shock, so psychologically in theory people aged 18 and above should be able to handle the mentality behind the film.

 Also in terms of demographics, the film would be aimed at the social category C1. This is because this class of society would become more enthralled by the psychology behind it and it the narrative’s conclusion would play upon their minds afterwards.

The main audience in terms of gender for this short film would probably be female over male. I believe this because from speaking with different social circles, the number of female people that have seen psychological films such as ‘Shutter Island’ and loved it were much higher than the males.

Also other genres and things the audience would be into watching, would be things like horror and thrillers.

Reception theory apllied to short film

The individuals in the audience will have numerous different reactions to the narrative. Some will decode the enigma and twist in the tale faster than others, and others in the audience may not agree that the conclusion means the same as their opinion. The film would be left to an open interpretation for all to debate over.

Treatment

Henry (protagonist) has captured the psychopath who murdered his wife and has him bound to a chair. After beating the psychopath in the head, he begins to taunt Henry about the situation and his wife. As Henry grows increasingly angry proclaiming all of these brutal and vial acts that the psychopath has committed we are taken to flashbacks of these crimes. The first is taken to the psychopath holding up a woman by the throat against a wall promising he won't kill her if she tells him where the wife is. After revealing the location and pleading the psychopath slits her throat and drops her to the ground.

We are then placed back into the dark room where the psychopath is cackling out loud, saying that he has but a fragment of the truth, then receiving another punch, it flashes back to a scene in the home of Mary. The psychopath is seated on the kitchen table surface playing with a knife in his hands. Mary walks into kitchen shocked to see the psychopath there, telling him to leave, she'll get help for him. He chases her through house  into hallway where he slits her throat (camera does not show this, only shows him cradling her body).

We go back to the dark room, where the psychopath no challenges Henry on his misguided facts of how everything really happened. The psychopath then narrates over a new set of flashbacks where it is revealed that Henry was the actual murdering psychopath, and the flashbacks are the exact same apart from it being Henry in the other place and occasional flickering in the editing changes the setting to a medical ward and then back to the house setting with the women changing from Mary to a nurse.

Back in the black room Henry wakes on the floor and sits up disconnected from the world and as he rises so does the psychopath behind him. Taunting him the psychopath begins to dance around Henry as Henry draws a knife and the screen goes black, slowly as we hear a violent struggle the room begins to slowly gain light, until the knife pierces the psychopath in the chest and Henry cradles him the same he did with his wife. A door in the distance opens allowing natural light to flood in, where we are then transported into reality as he is actually cradling a nurse in his arms in a hospital room. It suddenly becomes apparent to him that he has had another violent episode in his ward, showed through quick flashbacks and as the camera becomes disorientated like Henry it tracks him moving through the corridors of the hospital trying to escape as the sound of the psychopaths voice leads him, ending with the blurred outlines of two workers grabbing and pinning him to the ground as he screams out.

Brief History of the Psychological Thriller

The Psychological Thriller genre has been constant, popular genre which we can see being used in some of the very early literature texts. It focuses on manipulating the audience, and the building of suspense. It has been popular with authors and film directors alike, as it captures and stimulates the audience in a way that is different to something of the horror genre, or the action genre. Psychological Thrillers, even if in a 'fantasy' setting, tend not t try and suspend the audience's belief of what is going on in the film. They have been known to commonly feature narrative points which are used to catch the audience members off guard; it builds up a high expectation, before making them feel uncertain of what they have just seen.

Examples in Literature:

• The Count Of Monte Cristo (1844) is a swashbuckling revenge thriller in which the protagonist is betrayed by his friend and is sent to a prison in southern France from which he later escapes and seeks revenge. The story uses conventions such as revenge, power and betrayal which relate to the thriller genre.
• Heart Of Darkness (1903) is a first person within a first person about a man who travels the who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader. Layer by layer, the atrocities of the human soul and man's inhumanity to man are peeled away. This could be seen nowadays as a psychological thriller because of the psychotic theme and conventions it contains.

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Examples In Film: 

• Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller was the third silent movie The Lodger (1926) which was a Jack the Ripper story. This film was a psycho thriller because it dealt with a psychopath murderer and so had a typical story line of this genre. Hitchcock also produced thrillers such as Blackmail (1929)- his first sound film, Murder!, Number Seventeen,The Man Who New Too Much. These were all suspense films.
• The chilling German film M (1931) directed by Fritz Lang, told the story of a criminal deviant who preyed on children.
• me of thrillers was the FBI/agent hunting a serial killer and the most famous example of this was the picture winning, The Silence Of the Lambs (1991) by Jonathan Demme. This was classified as a crime thriller but it also merged into the psycho thriller sub genre  as it dealt with a psychological issues. David Fincher's Se7en (1995) is another example of a crime thriller that was famous.

FILM SCRIPT – TWISTED

FILM SCRIPT – TWISTED

 by Jack quinlan 

Scene 1 Int. Blacked out room - unknown

The Psychopath is tied to the chair after being beaten his eyes are wild and mocking as he has a low cackling laugh. Sharp non diagetic violin sounds as he sits ups and there is a close up on the Psychopath as he sits up.

Psychopath: (playfully)

Aren’t you getting tired yet?

Cuts to low angle medium close up of Psychopath, his eyes look to his left, licks his lips sadistically.

Psychopath: (mockingly)

 You do realise you’re looking at this from the completely wrong angle right?

Cuts to close up to side of Psychopaths face as he is punched from Henry whose face is still consumed in the blackness.

Psychopath: (sarcastically)

I’m not actually a bad guy if you get to know me.

Cuts to medium close up between the Psychopath and Henry.

Henry leans in very close to Psychopath.

Henry: (growling)

You are a sick little fuck

Cuts to close up to the bound hands behind chair, his hands are wriggling rhythmically.

Close up to Psychopaths face.

Psychopath: (playfully)

 You know I prefer the pink fluffy cuffs

Cuts to low angle medium close up of Henry; his rise in anger begins to make him shake as he clutches the Psychopaths shoulder.

Henry: (furiously)

You’re a real funny guy. A real (punch) funny (punch) fucking (punch) guy

Cuts to high angle close up of Psychopath shaking off the punches his eyes darting around the room, then his eyes lock in on Henry, as Henry leans in closer.

Psychopath: (playfully)

Funny how Henry? Like a clown, like I amuse you? (laughs)

Cuts to medium long shot between the two. Psychopath is hysterically laughing as Henry paces back and forth behind the psychopath then places leans over the shoulders of the Psychopath and without looking at him begins to speak.

Henry:

So why’d you do it?

Psychopath:

 Do what?

      Scene 2 ext. Alleyway - dusk

Cuts to medium long shot to flashback of Psychopath he is pinning a woman to the wall by the throat, she is repeatedly struggling and squealing as his grip tightens and he brings the knife to her cheek.

Psychopath: (playfully)

C’mon now don’t, don’t struggle

Cuts to medium close up to the Psychopath holding the woman, she freezes as the knife moves to her face and looks away.

Psychopath: (angrily)

Look at me, no, no, no, look at me. Tell me where to find her and I’ll let you go.

Cuts to close up of woman’s face as she stares at the knife eyes frantic and then stares into his face. Narration from Henry.

Henry:

And so she told you.

Psychopath:

 And so the piggy squealed.

Cuts to over shoulder shot as Psychopath slits throat fade back into black room.

Scene 3 int. Blacked out room - unknown

Cuts to medium close up to Henry staring into face of Psychopath the Psychopath having a sadistic and mocking sneer.

Psychopath: (mockingly)

I think you might be bending reality a bit there pal; I guess you think Mary was my fault as well?

Scene 4 int. House – night

Cuts to medium close up of Mary tracking her walking through her house into the kitchen, she looks up freezes and drops her keys to the ground and takes a step back.

Cuts to medium long shot of Psychopath sitting upon the kitchen worktops playing with a knife in his hands; switches to a close up shot of his face as he looks up with a big grin.

Psychopath: (stretching the word I’m) 

Honey I’m home

Cuts to medium close up of Mary as she shudders at him being there.

Psychopath:

What’s the matter honey? Surprised to see me?

Mary: (shaking voice)

How... how did you get in here?

Close up of Psychopaths face smirking

Mary: (shaking voice)

Look I can get you help, just... just put the knife down and we can talk.

The Psychopath jumps off of his seating spot and leers towards her knife pointed at her. The camera goes to a medium long shot and tracks both their movements as she screams whilst chasing her through the house, the camera slows at it turns a corner to find the Psychopath slowly sinking the knife into her chest.

Scene 5 int. Blacked out room – unknown

Henry violently shaking places his hand back upon the Psychopaths shoulder slowly moving it to the back of his head and yanks him back by the hair preparing to beat him in the head again. Camera cuts to close up of psychopath.

Psychopath: (challenging)

Have you ever asked yourself Henry how it was I got into the house, how I knew exactly who it was that would tell me where to find Mary, and how you even knew it was me doing all of these acts of a madman. Think back Henry, really think back for a moment, open your eyes.

Scene 6 ext. Alleyway - dusk

Cuts to medium long shot to flashback of Henry he is pinning a woman to the wall by the throat, she is repeatedly struggling and squealing as his grip tightens and he brings the knife to her cheek.

Henry: (playfully)

C’mon now don’t, don’t struggle

Cuts to medium close up to Henry holding the woman, she freezes as the knife moves to her face and looks away.

Henry: (angrily)

Look at me, no, no, no, look at me. Tell me where to find her and I’ll let you go.

Cuts to close up of woman’s face as she stares at the knife eyes frantic and then stares into his face.

Woman:(hysterically)

Henry Please!

Cuts to over shoulder shot as Henry slits throat and camera fades straight into the home scene.

Scene 7 int. House – night

Cuts to medium close up of Mary tracking her walking through her house into the kitchen, she looks up freezes and drops her keys to the ground and takes a step back.

Cuts to medium long shot of Henry sitting upon the kitchen worktops playing with a knife in his hands; switches to a close up shot of his face as he looks up with a big grin.

Henry: (stretching the word I’m) 

Honey I’m home

Cuts to medium close up of Mary as she shudders at him being there.

Henry:

What’s the matter honey? Surprised to see me?

Mary: (shaking voice)

How... how did you get in here?

Close up of Henrys face smirking

Mary: (shaking voice)

Look Henry I can get you help, just... just put the knife down Henry and we can talk.

Henry jumps off of his seating spot and leers towards her knife pointed at her. The camera goes to a medium long shot and tracks both their movements as she screams whilst chasing her through the house, the camera slows at it turns a corner to find Henry slowly sinking the knife into her chest.

Scene 8 int. Blacked out room – unknown

Cuts to medium close up as Henry awakes on the floor in shock, his eyes wild and frantic, camera then cuts to a medium long shot of Henry sitting upright and the Psychopath sits up behind him, a pitiful look on his face, eerie violins play again).

Psychopath:(mockingly)

Bad dreams honey?

Cuts to medium close up as Henry turns his head startled by the sight of him starts to get up, the camera tracks his movement as he rises to find the Psychopath is now in front of him clutching him by the throat.

Psychopath: (Screaming, Mary’s voice being used over the top)

You killed her, you twisted psycho!

Cuts to a black screen where we can hear a struggle and grunts as the two begin to fight, Henry wailing that it’s not true, and then light enters the screen to a medium long shot of Henry stabbing the Psychopath in the chest with a knife.

Cuts to close up of knife sinking in and Henry cradles the Psychopath in his arms.

Scene 9 int- daytime

Cut to medium close up, Henry cradling a nurse in his arms, a blade protruding from her corpse as the Psychopath begins to narrate.

Psychopath:

Looks like somebody’s has been a naughty boy again.

Cuts to close up of woman’s face and then to a shot reverse shot of Henry’s shocked face, cutting to a blurred medium long shot of Henry rising and staggering out of the room.

Final cut to first person view as Henry staggers down a corridor where the blurred images of to workers approach grabbing him and pinning him down, an overwhelming sound of static plays over the shot.

End