IDEA!

We put together four brief ideas that could be used towards the theme of psychological horror;

• amnesia
• schizophrenia
• delusions
• mental patient

For each of these ideas we came up with some ideas that would be used if we chose each one.

Schizophrenia
Split personality….
Weird visions ……
Believes they are two people…..
A kid at school sees a new kid at school but the truth is that it’s the other personality that the kid has…..
Mental patient
Could be set in a mental hospital showing the lives of patients.
The release of the main character who hasn’t fully recovered.
ESCAPE!!

Delusions
Blurred visions etc… shows images that aren’t real but seem to be there…..
Amnesia
Looking at Memento as an example which follows a similar storyline….
Maybe use opening as not action but links with the storyline i.e. memento uses photos.
A guy accused of a murder but has amnesia so can’t defend himself and he finds out that it was a setup.

After going over these ideas We have chosen the schizophrenia idea of a child at school. He is imagining a new child at school but not knowing that he has gained a split personality disorder and the new child at school, is actually his opposite personality, but he can’t see it because he sees everyone interacting with the child.

The opening will include

• A voice over
• children laughing
• slow motion of children planning (also slightly blurred)
• we will also have a colour cast of grey to show a distanced and depressing mood.