Concealed

As a group we decided to discuss our idea as a group, however we completed the task ourselves.

Title: Concealed

Genre: Psychological Thriller

• The antagonist has serious psychological problems, which lead him to be incredibly violent and dangerous towards other characters. 
• His actions also lead to the protagonist's and the 'princess's' deteriorating emotional state. 

Age Rating: 15

• Our film is an 15 because some scenes of a sexual nature and strong violence, which comes with a small amount of blood will be featured in the film. 
• There will also be strong language.

Characters:

• Name: Anastasia Castrilli
• Age: 17 years old  
• Personality: friendly, caring, modest and sensitive 
• She is very popular in school and out. Girls see her as a role model and boys will do anything to be with her, they are incredibly jealous of her boyfriend.   
• Role in the story: Anastasia is the main character, however she is not the protagonist. She is more of the princess/prize. When looking at Propp's character theory she would classify as this role because she is what the protagonist is fighting for, but he cannot be with her because the antagonist has her trapped. She also desired by the antagonist.  

• Name: Dylan Kratos ('Kratos' in Greek mythology is the God of strength and power.)
• Age: 18 years old
• Personality: active, confident, passionate, loyal, brave and determined.
• Dylan is also very popular in school. He is known by everyone as a arrogant jock. However he is not what he seems like as when he is with his friends he is very caring and  down to earth. When he is with Anastasia this side to him comes out even more and he is very protective and passionate towards her. It is no secret how deeply in love he is.
• Role in the story: He is the protagonist. It is him that finds Anastasia.

• Name: Damien Santana
• Age: 19 years old
• Personality: quiet, observant, mysterious and creepy
• Damien is a very excluded student and people tend to be intimidated by him, which makes them steer well clear of him. He has been held back a year, so should of left school by now if he wasn't held back. He has a very strange obsession with Anastasia, he just wishes she would so much as acknowledge him. Damien seems to be very possessive of her even though he has never even spoke to her, so whenever he sees Anastasia and Dylan together he gets overly jealous and seems to get angry. He suffers with Schizophrenia. This is a result of his troubled childhood. His parents left him when he was just 2 years old. He has been in care his whole life moving around from family to family. Now past the age of 18 he has left to his devices and lives by himself.
• Role in the story: He is the antagonist as he is the character that keeps Anastasia locked up, so that no one else can have her. He is also the character that is not mentally stable and can get very aggressive and possessive.  

Plot

• Beginning(disruption): Our film challenges Todorov's narrative theory because it has a non-linear narrative structure. The beginning starts with the disruption rather than the equilibrium. The opening will feature Anastasia locked up and the audience can see her deteriorating state.
• Equilibrium: Anastasia and Dylan are are happy together at Dylan's house. Damien lives opposite Dylan. Dylan notices that whenever Anastasia is round, Damien is always standing at his window and stares at Dylan's house. Whenever he mentions it to Anastasia she tells him he's being ridiculous. Nothing has ever happened to her so in her mind her world is perfect and nothing can go wrong. Dylan has football training. Anastasia orders food for them both in time for when he gets back.
• Disruption: On her way to collect the food, Damien uses a rock to knock her out from behind. He then takes her back to his house and locks her in his attic. Damien takes her phone and when Dylan texts her to ask where she is he replies "home.".
• Resolution: Dylan has been slightly suspicious of Damien over the couple weeks that Anastasia has been missing, however he felt as if he was just overthinking because he was so desperate to find her.
• They're both in the library at school and when Damien leaves he doesn't realise that Anastasia's phone has fallen out of his pocket.
• Dylan sees it and takes the chance to look through it thinking that it is Damien's phone. It not until he looks at the pictures on the phone and sees one that Anastasia and Dylan recently took together, that he realises it is her phone.
• Dylan carefully observes everything that Damien does and then goes home back to his house and watches out his window until Damien goes out.
• At that moment he breaks into his house. He searches everywhere for Anastasia,when he calls for her, she hears his voice and starts screaming for him. He follows her voice and breaks into the attic. 
• Both of the characters burst into tears of happiness as they tightly embrace each other. 
• He sees the bruises and cuts on her, he becomes overwhelmed with anger. 
• They hear the front door slam. Damien has returned. 
• They can hear him go upstairs, so attempt to leave. However this small window of chance ends very quickly as he almost instantly starts to come back downstairs. So they hide. When Damien goes up to the attic and sees she's gone he becomes distraught and starts smashing up the house. He finds Anastasia first and grabs her by her hair. As she struggles, an enraged Dylan emerges from his hiding place and quietly makes his way to the kitchen. 
• He grabs a knife and threatens Damien. A fight brakes out causing Dylan to drop the knife. 
• Anastasia begins to panic as she sees Dylan struggling. She impulsively grabs the knife and stabs Damien in the back. He slowly bleeds to death. Dylan and Anastasia finally escape.
• This challenges Propp's character theory because the princess kills the antagonist, rather than the conventional ending of the protagonist killing the antagonist. Dylan is still the hero because he saved Anastasia.
• In the beginning of the film Anastasia conforms with the stereotypical woman. She is feminine and vulnerable and takes the role of the damsel in distress. However in the end she has a role reversal and challenges the stereotype because she becomes strong enough to stand up to Damien and save the protagonist.
• There is no new equilibrium because the film does not end well for any of the characters. Anastasia has committed a serious crime and things would not return to normal life if the film was reality. 

Location

• Our opening sequence will take place in a dark old attic. It will be packed of junk however, the junk will not be closely placed around Anastasia . It will emphasise how isolated she is from the rest of the world. We want it to be dark and dirty so that the audience will instantly see that she is in danger because darkness is usually associated with evil/bad things or characters. The basement will be in Damien's house.