First 3 minutes of my film

Jake Fleetwood.

First 3 minutes of my film:

In the first 3 minutes of my film the audience see’s a death threat, an assault and in the final 3 minutes the audience are left we on a cliff hanger by a classic ‘who-done-it?’. It opens on a old man in a room on his own and we get the impression that his wife has died by the use of flashbacks. His phone then rings, to which he answers to a series of questions and interrogation by the caller on the other end of the phone. Once he can get a word in he asks them how he get his number they reply by putting the phone down. This is repeated for a few weeks. 

One day the man then receives a letter to which he opens to find a A4 sheet of paper with a death threat (the letters are cut from newspapers and magazines). Once he reads the threat he picks up the phone and rings his old police friend. Once he explains what’s happened he hears a noise on his front garden lawn and goes out to look. Still telling his friend whats happening. Whilst investigating whats happening he is hit over the head with a hockey stick and his friend can hear a thud. Worried he puts the phone down and rush to his friends aid. He arrives at his friend house to find his friend laid on his grass unconscious… 

First 3 minutes

First 3 minuets of Story idea

Starts by showing the detective walking in to his office, taking off his coat, opening his bag and taking out a pile of documents/files. Just before he starts to work another officer walks in and informs the detective that there is a call waiting for him. The detective thanks the officer and then answers the phone and the call is silent. The detective puts the phone down and starts look through the files he pulled from his bag. As he is working his mobile phone starts to ring with an unknown number. The detective answers the phone and again the call is silent at first. Just as the detective goes to cancel the call he hears a deep, mysterious voice that tells the detective that there is going to be a murder. The detective asks who the voice is and there is no answer. The voice then tells the detective a location and that the detective should hurry to the location if he wanted to stop the murder. The detective then ends the call and puts on his coat and heads towards his office door. After exiting this office the detective tells another officer to come with him. They leave the station and drive to the location given by the voice. On arrival the detective is puzzled, as the location seems normal. But the detective’s opinions are changed as he hears a scream. Both the detective and the second officer run to were they think the scream came form and find a women stood over the body of a female runner. The second officer takes the woman away from the body and then reports the murder. The detective steps toward the body and bends down beside it. He looks around the body and cannot see any clear wounds. 

Story idea, first 3 minutes

Story idea, first 3 minuets.

Detective Morris walks out of the dinning room and stands in front of the window of his flat with a can of bear in his hand. Looking out over the buildings into the town life at night. The phone on the side table starts buzzing and light up with an unknown number. He walks over and picks up the phone and answers it. Over the phone he is told to go to a location at a certain time, As we hear the voice is sounds deep and robotic. Whilst on the phone the camera switch to the other end of a phone where it is a dark room with the only light coming from the computer screens along a wall, which are showing different cameras. We see a dark figure from behind sat in a computer chair in front of a screen with smoke blowing over his shoulder. The camera then cuts to some dark woods with a figure running through the trees looking over their shoulder. Detective Morris then shoves the phone in his pocket and runs over to his coat rack and pulls his coat off and runs out of the door slamming it behind him. We then see the person running again, they then run out of the woods but towards a lake the halt and run along the banking into a small patch of trees where they slide onto the flaw and hide in a small bush. We then see the dark turn to day and detective Morris walks onto the scene and walks over to the patch of trees and sees the dead body in the bush, his eyes widen as he realises who is laid there his phone rings again and we see the man on the other end and tells him another location and time but this time to go alone or his wife and second child will be killed.          

Media Film idea

Media - Film idea.

Genre - Crime, with parts of physiological horror.

• The whole film is based around a retired police officer who's wife’s death anniversary has just passed.

• The clip begins by the elderly officer out with friends when he gets a call from a anonymous number. He denies the call but they ring straight back. He then answers to receive a bombardment of questions about his personal life. He then interrupts the caller on the other end and asks how they got his number. They reply by cutting off the call.

• This carries on for a few weeks until, he opens a letter addressed to him, inside he finds a A4 sheet with a death threat on it.

• He rings a old police friend and explains whats happened and they spend a while talking.

• Whilst on the phone he hears a noise outside his house, he tells his friend whats happening, and that he’s going to take a look.

• Whilst investigating what the noise was and on the phone to his friend, a man with his face covered comes behind him and hits him over the head with a hockey stick. Then we see him leave a note in his hand.

• His friend hears a thud noise and shouts his friends name down the line, we then hear him say, ‘’I’m on my way!’’.

• His friend arrives to see him on his lawn unconscious.

• The audience then find out that the character dies.

• The rest of the film is based around, his friend uses his old police skills to work out who killed his friend, why they killed him and then unravels the mystery of the death threats and he begins to get them and is told to back off otherwise he will end up like his friend. Although it ends up that he catches the murderer with the help of the police and his old police boss.

Film Idea

Genre; Psychological Horror
Name of the film; A Game of Cards

Main characters

Jeremy Roberts is a twenty five year old, who lives in New York City in the 1960s. He studied at New York University, and majored with a degree in English Language. After graduating from NYU, he went on to get a job, writing for the New York Times. Since a child, he has suffered from many psychological imbalances, including severe depression and anxiety. He was sent to the sanitarium, and feels more alone than ever.

Cherry Nichols is a twenty three year old women, who resides in New York City Sanitarium. She suffers from major depression and schizophrenia. Little is known about Cherry, except she was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and moved to New York when she was thirteen years old. During her teenage years, she was bullied heavily by fellow students at high school, and this led to her becoming suicidal. She didn't graduate from high school, and was sent to the sanitarium when she was sixteen years old.

Sister Wilson is a nun that works in New York City Sanitarium. She is sixty one years old, and is known for not treating the patients with good care. She is highly religious, and prays to God every morning and evening. Because of her faith, she believes that people who suffer from clinical insanity are doing so, because God is punishing them for their wrong doings, and refuses to try and make them better. Instead, she punishes them even more, because she claims, in a dream, that God told her to do so.

Plot

The story begins with twenty five year old Jeremy Roberts in his hospital room. The room itself is very dull, and the walls of the room are cracked. The only thing in the room is a small, metal bed, with one battered pillow and a thin blue blanket resting on the straw mattress. The walls of the room are heavily drawn on, with various inscribing's, including a list which Jeremy counts on how many times he's tried to kill himself and failed. Jeremy is sat in the left corner of the room, with a pack of cards spread out in front of him. He constantly plays with the cards, and is always deep in thought, looking panicky. Cherry Nichols, a twenty three year old, and fellow patient, enters Jeremy's hospital room. Her short, medium golden brown hair is stuck up all over the place and is full of knots. There's multiple stains of blood on her oversized, long nightgown, where self inflicted cuts on her body have re-opened.

Cherry and Jeremy then have a short conversation about the theories that got Jeremy thrown in the sanitarium. She is the only person who believes him, and thinks Life and Death control their destiny. After their conversation, she leaves his room, because otherwise Sister Wilson will be wondering were she is. Cherry leaves the room, and is found by Sister Wilson, who tortures her, incorrectly using Electroconvulsive Therapy when she didn't need the treatment. She then proceeds to re-open the self inflicted cuts on Cherry's arms, and made the wounds deeper.

Forward to Jeremy again, who is in his hospital room, messing about with his pack of cards. He picks up a pencil from under his pillow and starts drawing on on the wall next to his bed, writing words along the wall that don't make sense to anybody else, except Jeremy. Words, such as; Death, life, pain, cards. This is all relating to his theory about the world. The evening draws in, and Jeremy feels alone, and starts to suffer from flashbacks of previous treatment he has received while being in the hospital. When he wakes up in the morning, he is curled into the corner of his room, with the cards spread out around him, and there's dried blood on the floor. During the flashback, he had found a blade, and began to cut up wrists up, until his body had almost drained of blood. Jeremy believes he should of died, however Life won a game, and saved him from dying.

When the doctor comes in his room in the morning, and sees what happened last night, he tells Sister Wilson what happened. She drags in to the same room that he was sent to when he first was admitted to the hospital.

Flashback;

When Jeremy was first brought into the hospital, he was immediately given treatment, even before his condition had been examined by the doctor. He was dragged into a tiny room, with a metal bed, with restraints on the bed, so the patient will be fully tied down, and unable to move. Three psychiatrists shove him on to the bed, and tie him down. Then they use Electroconvulsive Therapy, at a level of electricity above what is recommended. They put a metal bar into his mouth, which is connected to the machine that runs electricity through the wires into his brain. As they turn up the amount of electricity that goes into his brain, it begins to affect his body, and his eyes begin to bleed. They then remove the metal bar from his mouth, and drag him to a room, which becomes his hospital room. He is left there, in excruciating pain.

Jeremy's theories

During the 1960s, religion played a big part of everyday society. Because of this, most people generally believed in a religion. However, some people also believed in science too. But, unlike the rest of general society, Jeremy believed in something very different. He believed that everything in life happened for a reason, and this was controlled by Life and Death, who played a game of cards. The idea of the game is that if Life wins, something good happens to Jeremy, such as he passes an exam, or wins an award. However, if Death wins, then something bad will happen to Jeremy, for example, he is involved in a car accident, or breaks his arm. If Death wins the game more than twenty five times, then Jeremy will die, and Death will decide how he dies.
He expresses his theories about this, while writing for the New York Times. As what he believes in, is neither really religion or science, people greatly reject him and his theories about the world. Because of this, his undiagnosed depression and anxiety, that he has suffered from since being a child, worsens, and he is ultimately sent to the New York City Sanitarium. While in hospital, he continues to share his theories to the other patients, however, they also reject his theories. Jeremy believes that everybody seems to be rejecting his theories, because Death won a game, and decided to make everyone not believe him.

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Media Film Idea

Genre – Crime

·         Starts with a detective walking into his office

·         His phone rings, he answers and he hears a voice telling the detective a location and that he should go and check the location.

·         The detective hangs up the phone and goes to the location

·         When he arrives he finds the body of a runner with no clear wounds

·         The detective reports the death and the body is taken to find how the runner dies

·         The detective stays at the location with other officers to see if they can find any clues.

·         As the detective is looking his phone rings and it is the same voice who tells the detective another location, then hangs up

·         The detective realises that this could be another murder so rushes with the other officers to the second location

·         On arrival the location seems normal until one of the other officers with the detective collapses onto the floor.

·         The officer is then rushed to the hospital and the detective returns to his office.

·         A few days later the detective finds out that both the runner and the officer were poisoned.

·         The detective’s phone begins to ring and it is the same voice who tells that this is the detective’s last chance and again gives the detective a location and tells him he has a time limit to save the next victim.

·         The third location is the station the detective is in.

·         The detective then realises that the victim must be another officer and the killer must also be in the station.

·         The detective then rushes around the station trying to find the killer, when he finds an officer laid on the ground with a dark figure standing over him.

·         The figure runs and the detective chase’s the figure through the station and into the street where the detective corners the figure.

·         The figure then reveals that they are the detectives superior officer and then pulls out a gun

·         The detective also pulls his gun and then has to arrest his superior officer who is then jailed for life and the detective then retires.

Media Film Idea

Media story idea

 Genre : Crime

• Cop/deceive stud in flat window looking out at town/city dark out.
• woman running in woods
• Cop/deceive receives phone call creepy robotic voice
• tells about the murder where and when
• Running woman dead in woods
• Cop/deceive goes to where he's told, sees the murder victim its his daughter
• sets about trying to find out who done it
• long day at work goes home to find his wife and second daughter gone door left open
• searches house
• called again same creepy robotic voice saying where and when to go to a place says no earlier or things get worse
• goes when told finds part of his wife with a note
• saying instructions on how to find her
• follows these abusing his powers as a cop to do so and finds another part of her
• keeps doing this until final clue telling him  where to find both his wife and daughter
• both in different areas though and only allowed to save one if he tries to save both, both die if he tells anyone both die
• shows him in car at junction one way to his wife the other to his daughter he has to choice which way to go shows him speeding off  one of the directions
• end of story never find out which one he chooses to save

First three minutes of my own film story

A Game of Cards

The film starts with Jeremy Roberts sat in his hospital room. The room is plain and simple, with only a metal bed, with one tatty pillow and blanket placed on top of the bed. Jeremy is sat in the corner of his room, with a pack of cards spread out around him. He is talking to himself, speaking fast, the words he's speaking are not making any sense to anyone other than him. He picks up a pencil off the bed, and writes some words on the wall. These words do not make any sense to other people in the hospital and only make sense to Jeremy.

These words include things such as 'death, card, destiny' ect.

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