G324: Advanced Portfolio in Media

Electronic format for my A2 Media Studies coursework.

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Pitch

Film trailers are created after a film has been made, by editing different parts of a film for a promotional package. Therefore, it was only ideal for me to come up with a full story for my film and then to make the trailer.

Here is my story:

While their mother was sleeping, Mattie brutally murdered her younger brother Michael, who was only 3 years old at the time, with a knife in the kitchen while their mother was asleep. Mattie was only 6. When her mother came into the kitchen, she saw Michael on the floor with his blood everywhere, over the knife and all over Mattie. Mattie was taken into a mental hospital because she was blamed for her brother’s death, which was too much for her mother to handle so her mother committed suicide. After therapy and care, Mattie describes that a dark haired man, with a wonky leg, in a duffle coat had come through the back door and murdered Michael in front of her and that she was innocent. Matthew, a neighbour six doors down, matched this description and was found guilty for the murder meaning that Mattie was able to leave child care when she was 18.

15 years later, Mattie lives in her own apartment, with job and a predominately healthy and stable life despite her past. Mattie appears unaffected by her past, her mother’s death and witnessing the murder of her brother. Suddenly she start’s having nightmares about her childhood, seeing herself with Michael’s blood over her and painting a picture with the blood. Over the week, the nightmares become more vivid and Mattie see’s that the picture her young self is painting is of a mask. Here, her nightmares come into her waking life, as she begins to see her young self on the street, in work and even in her home. The mask too begins appearing in her day to day life, as she sees a man in a duffle coat wearing the mask in shops, in restaurants on dates and at home. Then one day, Mattie is getting ready and she looks into the mirror and sees herself wearing the mask. These nightmares become too much like reality and Mattie becomes frightened. Mattie goes back to the child care home she grew up in and asks to see the physiatrist, Dr. Kien, to see if she can start therapy again to help her nightmares.

One night, while Mattie is sleeping, she wakes up from another vivid nightmare of her and everyone around her wearing this familiar mask. She wakes up to see that a masked silhouette behind her. She demands to know who the person is and why they are haunting her. The masked person replies that this is just her dream and that Mattie is still in the mental hospital from her childhood. She had been declared insane and started to have happy dreams of a normal life, in a normal apartment, with a normal job and normal friends, being happy and healthy. However these dreams began to be taken over with the masked man, the one that she told police killed Michael when in fact, Matthew was never arrested. Mattie killed Michael when she was young and was taken to the mental hospital. She has never left.

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