My Product - Plot Summary

I have decided to work in a pair to create my product as it will give me access to a wider skill set and also will be very helpful during the brainstorming stage, and together we have come up with the storyline the whole film will follow. From this we will decide what parts should feature in our trailer and how to get a sense of the plot into the trailer.

Our film is going to be focused around a murder which happened approximately one year before the film is taking place. The murderer will be one of the dead girls best friends, however they have never been caught and no one knows that it was her, not even the other friends. One year later the five girls are getting on with their lives, until one day a boy who was infatuated with the girl before she died holds them hostage and tortures them until they admit who killed her. 

The film will start in school, with the five girls going about their normal day-to-day lives. During the day at school, someone is watching them however they do not notice and the audience do not see their face, leading them to believe this is the antagonist of the film and the person to fear. In this characters locker is a shrine to the dead girl, making it clear from the start he was obsessed and making him appear sinister and stalker like. This is a twist on the false hero theory as this appears to be the antagonist however by the end we know he is trying to get a twisted form of justice and the murderer is in fact the villain.

The girls are then kidnapped by the stalker, who takes one and then texts the rest to meet her and holds them all hostage in an abandoned house just outside the town they live in. He ties the five girls to chairs and begins to tell them about his love for their friend. At this point in the film he will appear utterly deranged and there will be no doubt he had something to do with the murder. He is wearing a bracelet, which belonged to the girl who died and as the film progresses it becomes clear she wore it the night she died.

Throughout the film he forces them to hurt each other and hurts them himself. To begin with they are defiant and fight back but as he starts forcing them to tell the truth about the night their friend died they become more and more willing to play the game as they want to uncover the truth themselves. It will appear that they are all guilty at different points, as none of them have been fully honest about that night and the whole film will feature flashbacks of that night and of them all having fun together when they were friends, which contrast hugely and make the murder appear even worse. During the flashbacks of the night the girl was killed, items will be seen and things will be said which make each character seem guilty and the truth of all of their whereabouts that night become clear. It will almost become a 'truth or dare' style game as he tries to find out who killed the girl, forcing the girls to tell him what happened for face being tortured.

Eventually the girl who killed the other admits it when he nearly kills her with the promise he will release them and let them get medical help for the wounds inflicted. He does not keep this promise however and kill that girl and then himself. The other girls are then left there, tied up at the end of the film.