Valentines Day Nightmare (coursework pitch)

Mis En Scene

• Middle class/ medium to large house
• Sofa infront of television
• White painted/tiled bathroom
• White bath (to contrast with red blood

Character

• Teenage 17 year old boy, socially awkward. Dark brown hair, brown eyes, tall, suspicious smile.
• Teenage 17 year old girl, socially awkward. Short blonde bob, attractive.

Costume

• Boy: 1990's 'look' = ripped jeans (horizontal slits across the knee) for 'grunge' look. Nirvana cut off tshirt denoting that he is interested in Nirvana and connoting that Nirvana were popular in 1991.
• Girl: 1991 'Grunge' look, strappy Nirvana top and long brown skirt.

Music

• Nirvana (to show era)
• ''Aint No Sunshine'' by Bill Withers from 1971

PLOT

Boy (brown hair) and girl (blonde hair, possibly connoting that she is a scream queen) on sofa together watching television (One of Nirvana's concerts) diagetic sound. Colour TV (because colour TV was introduced in 1974 and the film opening is set in 1991)
Medium high angle shot of boy and girl sat together on the sofa.
Boy: ''Happy Valentines Day babe'' in an english accent, denoting that its valentines day and also denoting that the boy is english, possibly connoting that the film is set in the UK.
Medium close up shot of boy falling asleep.
Close up of boy waking up, expanding into a long shot to reveal that the girl is no longer next to the boy and there is a bloodied kitchen knife replacing her by his side, blood down the boys face and blood down the boys clothing.
Long shot of boy moving off the sofa and into the next room trying to find the girl, shouting 'Marion' or 'Janet' (intertextual reference from John Carpenters Psycho).
Medium close up shot of boys feet walking up the stairs.
Point of view shot of boy walking along the corridor and stopping at a bloodied hand printed door frame and door.
Over the shoulder shot of boy opening the door to find white tiled bloodied walls and girl lied across the bath with bloodied clothes and multiple stab wounds.
Medium high angle shot of the dead girl in the bath.
Medium close up shot of the boy screaming: 'Janet!' or 'Marion!', as this happens, effect is used to make the shot fuzzy.
BLACK AND WHITE shots used to connote that the boy is in a flashback.
Point of view shot of the boy walking into the bathroom as girl is washing her hands.
Girl laughs and says 'Norman?' then looks down at the knife.
Close up of the knife in boys hand.

Medium close up P.O.V shot of girl struggling to defend herself against the knife, camera moving around and girl pushing camera out of way.
Hand goes over the camera to create a black screen, diagetic screams and banging is heard.
COLOUR SCREEN shots used again to connote that the boy is out of the flashback.
Long shot of the back of the boy stood in the same position as he was before the flashback.
Long shot of the boy getting into the bath with his dead girlfriend.
Medium close up of the boy pointing the knife towards his chest, the boy is crying.
Screen goes black and diagetic screams are heard from the same person.
Non diagetic radio sound with fuzz audio is heard, formal and fast language is used to connote that the radio is a news report, a brittish accented woman says "17 year old's Marion Crane and Norman Bates (Or Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins) deceased bodies were discovered in a bath in their hometown of Leeds on February 14th 1991, police suspect a greusome murder followed by suicide"
White text appears on the black screen with director, followed by actors and editor.
At the same time, Bill Withers 'Aint No Sunshine' is played.