Statment of intent

Title: The Rippler

 tagline: Silence is not your ally

 Logline: A man named Eric Blanc (who is a hiker) mother and father died in a car crash goes on a hike with a few friends in a forest. They later disappear one by one but realise what is causing it in the end but its to late. 

  Full narrative: On a normal morning day a man named Eric Blanc receives a call from the police informing him that his mother and father has died in a car crash . Eric spends the next two days grieving and pondering on why it had to be his mother and father. After he gains some sort of his senses he contacts friends Jeff,Steve,Chloe and Maya and lets them know what has happened. In an attempt to help Eric relief some stress and cope with it they decide to go on a long hike with Eric.They set out the next day to the Ripple nature reserve which is believed to be be closed of due to gruesome murders being taken place their,they go along believing they are just stories to scare kids from heading their as a few hours pass by Steve and Chloe keep mentioning how they feel a presence is watching them but just believe their mind is just playing with them they take a quick water break and set down their things. Above them they all seem to spot a blacked out figure sitting above them and freak out a twig snaps near by and they realise Chloe they all began to panic and scream her name out and try to call police but they receive no signal they then began to search for her but a a little card is left on top of Chloe's belongings witch has a finger on the a lip as if it was shushing someone Eric then realises that Steve is now missing and where he was standing is a cross with a few drops of blood on it.Maya then begins to breakdown they grab their things and begin to track back the way they came trying to get out of their while trying to call the police at the same time as the day goes by the set up a night camp to sleep Jeff then goes out with Maya to get some fire wood half an hour goes by and Eric begins to worry what has happened, he then takes a look at the card and tries to figure out what it means he flips the card around and it reads Silence = with a picture of skull with a signature at the bottom the Rippler then realises that the silence is what will lead him to his death but its too late he feels a tap on his shoulder and turns around to see Jeff covered in blood with a knife leaking of blood...

website plan: On my website homepage ,I will feature typical conventions of a website homepage such as trailer and links to social media. Their will also be shots of the blacked figure, one of Ripple forest to help establish the setting of the film. Their will also be an interview with the director who will give an insight on how the film with a low budget and small amount of time and how that he created and old fashion and nostalgic film which brings back the feeling of uncertainty and pure horror. The director a 19 year old student of London theatre school has worked under the wing of many famous and well established actors of horror films which would give him plenty of experience and knowledge of the genre. 

photography plan: My photography will contain spine chilling images and bring curiosity to the audience. I will be creating a picture with a cross dripped with blood to bring a sense of  fear into my audience. In another the image I will be taking a picture of the setting where majority of the story will take place this is so the audience will have a clear idea of where the story takes place which would be a forest which would appear peaceful from the outside until they see the sign The ripple which would be sort of etched onto a wooden sign to bring a sort of juxtaposition as the forest looks calm and peaceful but the sign looks sinister and evil. The last image will be of a blacked out figure sitting on a branch the fact their is no visibility of the characters surface adds a whole level of uncertainty and questions why is it their? who is it? what is its purpose? and the colour black also adds more uncertainty to haunt on viewers keeping the character mysterious and hidden and to create an enigma code.

Representation: In my film i made the characters diverse as i have involved an Asian character called Maya and African character called Chloe and then two white male characters Jeff and Steve