Group - Concept Development

One Liner
Normal guy. Normal life. Then the feeling of being followed everywhere, not knowing what's around the corner. Waking up in dark places, with the deep, throbbing knowledge... there's no way to escape.

Opening in detail
Blank screen to start, with non-diegetic, eerie music fading in but staying quiet. The sound of running getting closer and closer. A pause, with heavy breathing before two more footsteps of another person, and sounds of a scuffle. A few seconds of silence, before a sudden shot of an unknown partially obscured, blurry, sinister looking face instantly replaced by the face of the protagonist. Multiple shots (mostly CU) of the protagonist and his surroundings, showing his confusion at being in a graveyard at night. At transitions between shots, credit titles (produced by etc.) will flash up on blank screen. Shots of protagonist stumbling about, desperate to find his way home, he is gripped by a hallucination of someone being hung in the tree he is leaning on, using POV shots. After this hallucination, ECU shot shows the protagonist's face lying on the floor in some woods, knocked out. Eyes snap open and he is again freaked out by his change of location. Protagonist continues to try and make his way to a road, when he suddenly has a cloroform cloth held tightly over his mouth from someone behind him. As the protagonist loses conciousness, the shot turns blurry and fades, the music also fades, as the abducter whispers "There's no escape". The main title 'Somnium' will then fade in on a blank screen.

Characters for Opening Sequence

• Victims - One or two average people to be tracked, beaten up and hung by murderer
• Murderer - Big, hooded, hulking male, dirty overcoat etc.
• Protaganist - Average, well dressed, nice home

Props

• Hangman's noose
• Chloroform cloth

Locations

• Woods
• Graveyard

Soundtrack

• Non-diegetic soundtrack - atmospheric, minor key, droning, tense, suspense-building, constant
• Diegetic - selective sound of footsteps, doors creaking, etc. to emphasise isolation and threat

Titles: These are our 5 finalised fonts, and the one we will use will be determined by our audience questionnaire. The word 'Somnium' is the latin word for hallucination.