The thing about the progression of this project is that changes are bound to happen throughout the way. Even though it means that we have to change a little or a lot, we have learnt to look past the situation and somehow move forward.
Below are the initial and the amended plot for the pitch.
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It
is 2013 and Robert Green has been relieved from his military position in the
war. Traumatised by the slaughter and murder occurring in the battles, he
decides to settle down in a new home to help him go back to normality. On the
first night, he hears a knock at his door. Though when he opens it, no one is
there. He assumes it’s just children playing around, but a symbol was drawn in
red on his doorstep. This happens frequently, until he witnesses a murder
during the night from his window, reports it to the police, but no evidence of
it happening is found. Robert soon realises that he is being followed and in
danger, and attempts to leave the town. However, the children of the town do
not work in his favour, and constantly stop him. He is later met with Christina
Wallace – a nearby resident of Penningdale Avenue, who is also unable to leave.
They team up in aim to find out how to combat these sinister children that
stalk them.
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Idea 2: The Void
Timid couple, Christina (Chloe Espiritu) and Robert Green (James Ross) has been settled into Capel Road, East London, for just over a year. Having lost two children in childbirth, they desired a change of environment and to start their lives a fresh. Robert works as a teacher in a local sixth form - Christina, a waiter at a nearby restaurant. Their relationship is stable, though it is made evident that they are suffering deep grief, as Robert is seen to be drinking wine frequently, and Christina cries in her sleep, and occasionally experiences night terrors. However, they are visited and begged by Robert’s auntie, Rose Aberfeldy (Shalom Siquera), to look after their children for some weeks, as she flies in emergency to India, as her cousin passed away.
The next day, the children, Denver and Carla, arrive at their home with their belongings. They appear kind and innocent, but a little shy. The couple become uneasy at the weight of the responsibility, however they treat the children as their own and become fond of them. They take them shopping, to the park, etc. However, a week later, they begin to misbehave and show animalistic behaviour, and Christina and Robert become worried.
The couple soon find symbols around the house in crayon and paint, hear distorted voices around the house, and other things out of the ordinary occur. Things moving by themselves, loud bangs, and things going missing.
Christina begins to feel the pressure, commits suicide.
Robert is left alone, and is eventually murdered by the children.
{Updated Version}
It is the present day, and Robert Green (James Ross) is settled down into a quaint house in East London, alone. His past is dark, with his beloved wife, Christina (Chloe Espiritu) and young children having died in a car crash. With a mild drinking problem, Robert blocks out the outside world, as he is afraid to let anyone into his life with the fear that they will walk out again. He dwells in the home in which he would have lived in with his small family, and is content with his isolation. However, he sometimes has hallucinations of his family wondering about the house.
One day, a phone call comes from out of the blue. It is Christina's sister that lives nearby, with the request of babysitting her two children for a week, as she tends to her family in an emergency, in India.
When the children arrive, and their behaviour is without guile. However, their personalities alter in an odd, eerie sense. Robert finds strange symbols around the house, hears different voices, things going missing around the house. Things eventually escalate to a point where Robert feels he is losing his sanity, and contemplates suicide.
Characterisation:
Protagonist: Robert Green (29)
White, middle classed male.
Straight, wife and children desceased.
Londoner.
Gardening, literature, art.
Atheist.
Former greetings card designer.
Antagonists: Denver and Carla
Reincarnation of Robert's children, Zachary and Poppy.
Filipino ethnicity.
Ayeisha and I were very much in favour with the 'Knock Down Ginger' idea although we had to consider the props, cast and the house location we had in mind. Eventually we both agreed to make some changes which resulted to a slight change in concept. It still has changed
