Synopsis and Target Audience

John is taking a run through his local woods after work on a dark October day. However, his life will take a turn for the worst - he becomes, "bait".Straight from the start the audience is fully aware of both the sense of danger and malice that is shown in copious amounts, aswell as the dark twisting storyline of "Bait". John is lured from an everyday life and is thrust into a world of confusion, trickery and extreme violence.Whilst trying to survive from the grinding tools of a psychopath, John tries to tap into the mind of his captor and try and desperately find a way out. After an anonymous provocative message is sent to authorities the search for John begins after several days missing. The plot thickens as discoveries are made into the identity of the blood thirsty killer and where John is being held from escape.As the search for John becomes conclusive, John becomes aware of the twisted plan of his captor and realises he has become bait for a simple minded mass murder. - His rescuers are being tested.Fast action and slow tension building scenes capture the true evil contained in the darker rural areas of the UK.

(The poster was created by Olli Cannon and the group worked on the synopsis together.)

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This synopsis got us thinking about who is our target audience?



We thought it was more or less about 18+ as our story is a convention of a horror gore film which would be rated as an 18. However we do not plan to use language, violence, drugs or scenes of a sexual nature which would bring our small clip down to a 12 or 15 at the highest. But this i feel was only due to our lack of resources, if we had the money for fake blood make up and false limbs then i suspect we whould have used it.

Scenery and Props

So as we had a rough plan of the storyline we needed to find a location to film it. I thought that this was very important as it could make or break the film, as we needed a certain type of atmosphere. Also it would need to be a safe area that isn't to public so as to reduce possibilities of brack ground noise; but accessable and close to where we lived so as not to take over a day filming.

We knew we wanted a rural setting in the woods so we picked ashridge forest. which was ideal as it was as it was close to both Harry and Olli's houses. We scoped out the area taking pictures of the areas that we would use to shoot, it seemed relativly quiet but still public. However, on the day started to film there were tons of screaming children and too many members of the public wandering into shot.

The solution was Harrys idea, he had been working for a woman who had a private pine wood forest, so we went to her house and asked permition. With is grantted we started to film. This wood was infact more ideal, with dense trees and a thick canopey giving us just the right lighting; and in fact it worked better than our previous idea.

The main prop was a rusty saw which we used as the weapon of choice for this phsycopath.

I shall include picture in my next post once i get them off Olli.