PROPOSAL PART 1-

PROPOSAL PART 1-

Outline of Purpose/Post- 

Set in the pandemic, a couple of friends organise a zoom call to catch up and talk as schools and public places are closed. During the Zoom meeting, they suddenly start talking about their old friend that has passed away and/or has gone missing. They continue to talk about what could have happened to their friend and who posted the last ever post that was on their social media page because they have doubts that it was actually them who posted it. Suddenly, an unknown caller joins the call. The caller asks if everyone wanted to play a game; they accept. However, chaos ensues as the main protagonist finds their friends being taken down one by one after they play this game on the app on their phones they were told to download. 

This app tells them the exact date they are going to die. Everyone freaks out. Someone's death appears as today, they didn't take it seriously until the last minute where that person succumbs to their death. They are eliminated one by one as they try to remove the person from the call and confess to their secrets to find out who killed the person.

The twist of the short film is to subvert viewers expectations thinking its the ghost of the person in the call that was killed as the short film hints towards it but however it was someone in the call posing as the murdered/missing person to be able to get everyone to confess to their secrets and other things they are hiding as everyone in the call is a suspect and could have possibly been behind the disappearance/killing of their old friend. 

Target audience and scheduling/distribution 

For our short film, we're aiming for an audience that ranges between 15-18 years olds. The main characters in our short film are going to be played by 17-18 year olds- so the characters in the short film are going to be more relatable and connected to the main characters are they are around their age group. This is going to be further proven by the setting of short film where they cannot go to school as they are stuck indoors due to the pandemic, which a lot of teenagers can relate to in this very moment in time.

Although we believe that both genders will enjoy our short film, according to research (and possibly stereotypes) males prefer to watch horror and scary movies more than females, meaning we would have more male watchers than we would female, so whilst creating our short film we need to consider our target audience. 

The people watching our short film could possibly have an interest in scary, suspenseful and thrilling killer movies that are cloaked in mystery that gives the watchers a challenge to see if they can find out who the killer is before the main characters can. Our target audience should also be frequent users of social media and smart technology, as we are basing our short film on zoom, our target audience should have at least have used it once so that it feels familiar to them.

Although we are basing a lot of our short film on Zoom, there are going to be some shots that are not online. As we're mainly going to be showing our short film to people in the local area, we are going to also get some shots from outside in the part, near a corner shop where the viewers can recognise and get excited as they have been to that place to show the emptiness of public places due to the pandemic.

For the ethnicity of our audience, we want it to be diverse as the main characters in our short film all come from different backgrounds so a lot of people can relate to them.

According to research, more younger people such as teenagers (our primary target audience) watch videos mostly on Youtube than opposed to TV. We believe that more of our target audience will see our short film on Youtube and find it to their interest than it would be on TV as a lot of our audience doesn't watch as much TV anymore. Also, there are not a not of channels that primarily broadcast short films and our film will only be about 10 minutes at most long.  

Genre and Theme

The Short Film is a: Horror, Thriller and Mystery. The viewers as they watch can try and guess who the killer and/or how the person disappeared as the characters in the short film are left to unravel the mystery; the short film is going to keep the viewers on the edges of their seats as more shocking events occur in the short film.

The characters in the short film are going to use objects such as: their mobile phones, their computers and/or tablets, etc.

Other props in the short film can be: a fake knife, fake blood, a blender, a laptop, computer, webcam, papers, and a microphone.

The characters are going to be dressed up in casual attire, so the target audience for our short film can relate to them as they are both similar to one another.