Pitching for final idea

One sentence description

Our idea is about a young teenage girl being stalked by an unknown man and her life is in danger.

What is going to happen in the opening

(D1) there will be a  teenage girl that is sitting on her laptop and she is doing some work to meet some important deadlines.She is sitting with her phone and her laptop and doing the work. It was a evening and she gets a text on her phone from an unknown number saying ‘You’ve got something I want’ and she ignores the text and carries on with the work.

(D2)This day is a similar day for her again, she was still in her house doing work, but today she is alone and it looks like something bad will occur. Her phone suddenly rings but she didn’t know who it was. The call came through as “NO CALLER ID” and she answers and the same phrase is said ‘You’ve got something I want’.

What is going to happen in the opening

(D3) it was a Sunday and she had a day out with the friends and it was coming up to the evening and she is making her way home. The text is from the same person and is threatening to kill her family if she does not meet up with him. She goes to the place (park)  but when she gets there nobody is there. As she leaves she receives another text saying ‘I’m here’. She looks back and realises there's a guy using his phone metres behind her and she realises that he could be the stalker. She panics and ran away from the man. She looks back again and the guy has disappeared and then she showed a sign of relief. She makes her way home but then realises that she needs a taxi so she stops a taxi and says “take me to (address).” After that she has got a text saying “I'm closer to you”. Becoming suspicious she looks up at the mirror and sees that the taxi driver is watching her and she watches him back.The taxi driver says something like “you don’t need to tell me where you live I already knew that before you even told me. She tries to open the door but its locked. The car drives of at the distance.

Genre/ Sub-genre

It will be a Psychological Thriller. Danger is revealed to girls as she realises she is being stalked. Audience knows as much as the character does in the opening sequence. Involves manipulation of character and testing their limit. Elements of mystery and suspense. Audience anticipates what is yet to happen. Kidnapping scene at the end questions the audience to what will happen to her. 

Characters

Main characters: girl (Jamie),

Stalker (Bob)

Friends (Sam, Grace and Amy)

Young male(John).

Location

Home

Park

Street of houses

Shopping centre (shops)

Length of Pacing

The first 2 days are ordinary and will only be shortly shown. Except when she gets the text and call on those 2 days the pace increases. When she is with her friends for day three, the day quickly finishes and then it goes slower when she gets a text again. The pace increases so the tension quickly rises. Once she finishes running and finds a taxi everything is normal and silent. Panic rises when she realises she is being kidnapped and she is quickly seen in the car driving of to the distance.

Influences

The idea was derived from classic kidnapping scenarios and movies. It also involves the real life stories from e-safety problems in today’s society. We wanted to increase the tension and make it more dramatic with the stalker and social networking concept. The kidnapping make it’s more a serious and physical problem, especially with the idea of prostitution and money. 

Target audience

12A

15-20 year old