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1. Devil's Game KGLPRODUCTIONS

2. The Genre Thriller Genre – there is a clear antagonist, the future victims' photos will be up on the wall. 

3. The idea (Synopsis – whole film) • •A well-established businessman seemingly leads the perfect life. He has a wife and two children, lives in a good neighbourhood and etc. His life is turned upside down as he finds out his wife is cheating on him;  the man's business is also at its end as it gets bankrupt. In a matter of a few months the man has lost everything including his family and all his money.  • •Fleeing to Mooresville, Alabama – a small town an hour away from Birmingham. The man buys a small house. With Alabama being quite religious, the man starts attending church almost every day. Here is where he comes to the conclusion that he must take it upon himself to punish the people who have sinned against God.  • •The man buys a warehouse that was abandoned, on the edge of the town and spends a few years designing an intricate game. The following few months after the game is built, he starts driving to Birmingham and observing the people around him – potential targets.  • •After kidnapping 7 all who have sinned in one way according to the seven deadly sins. The man puts them into the game he has created. They are trapped in a warehouse having to solve riddles and problems with religious connotations – if they get it wrong, they are killed.  The victims do not know why they are there.  • •One victim (the main protagonist) does stick out – an eighteen-year-old girl. Being the daughter of a police chief in the city, the girl is adamant that her father will come and find her.  She makes a deal with the man that for every problem she solves correctly, a hint will be given to the police force about the kidnappings.  • •As the game goes on, there are flashbacks to each of the characters sins as well as the man observing them. This game goes on for two weeks until there are 5 people left. They have not yet figured out why the man is doing this until the main protagonist questions him and finds out more than she should know. As she is processing this, the man attempts to kill her and leaves her severely injured.  • •At the same time as this, the police have had enough clues to work out what is going on and trace the victims to the warehouse. The man ends up fleeing the scene as the 5 remaining victims are rescued. We see the girl being put into an ambulance, but the film ends there – we didn’t know if she has survived or if the man has been captured.

4. The idea (Synopsis – opening Sequence) • •The non-diegetic music is a piano with a fast tempo, it crescendos to add bangs and a clock ticking.  • •We see a car driving – both the outside and the inside of it – OTS from behind the driver. It is being driven by the antagonist.  • •The car stops at a house; the man exists and walks into the house. He we see him go down into a basement and turn on the lights.  • •The walls are covered in readings from the bible – the seven deadly sins are circled and highlighted.  • •The sins are also printed out in bold letters and underneath them on a pinboard are photos of the future victims.  • •At OTS shot shows the man approach the final sin which doesn’t have anything underneath it – envy and pins up the photo of the main protagonist.  • •There is a black out and the title ‘Devil’s Game’ is a depicted on screen.

5. Visual Cues (Colour’s/images) • Basement – low-key artificial lighting, a chalkboard, scraps of paper (torn out from a bible), The Seven sins will be written at the top in chalk and photos of the victims placed underneath. • Car Driving - natural lighting, there is daylights. The car is not expensive and doesn't raise attention. 

6. Influences • We did research and found a similar idea film called “7”.  The film tells the story of David Mills, a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. Seven was the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year(1995), grossing over $327 million worldwide.  • The main inspiration comes from the thriller and science fiction genre music. We listened for music from the most famous thrillers and visualized what the picture should look like for this kind of music, thereby creating an appropriate atmosphere for the film. • Initially, we hadn't come up with a motive for the antagonist, then we thought that the motive could be something religious and as Alabama is a religious state, we decided to base the storyline there. After we decided that there should be seven victims, it was only logical that they should represent the seven sins.

7. The practical considerations • Where: Ewhurst. Abandoned common room.  • Driving through forest and along the roads to get to ewhurst • Who: one man.  • When: early evening. 

8. Aliquem Leto Dare KGL PRODUCTIONS

9. The Genre • Crime - • Alcohol and illegal substances, • Weaponry, • A failed attempt from the police force, • Robbery, • Relates to a hard upbringing from the protagonist.

10. The Idea (Synopsis – whole film ides) • Gang members allocated in an underground basements selling illegal substances and allocating people to kill other gang members from different gangs. A new gang member joins who is an undercover police agent working for the London metropolitan police. He is mesmerised to find out about the basement and discovers lots of information to give back to the police so they can help catch them. One mistake and it all goes wrong, they find out he is a policeman undercover and gets stabbed three times and soon later tied up to a chair as he slowly wakes up in agony he is threatened and the gang find out all the information he has told the police and their plan to shut the basement down and lock the gang up. They swiftly kill the police officer and move locations and city’s to soon later set up another basement. They end up clearing everything in minutes and making the basement look empty with no evidence behind except a dead body of a policemen. The police and army later on rage the basement to find nothing except their college dead on the floor bleeding out, they were to late and had failed their mission.

11. The Idea (Synopsis – Opening Sequence) • Opening clip of an underground basement full of drug substances (needles, white powder, pills, cannabis etc…). • Weapons – knifes, blades, cleaver etc… • Part of a gang and business • People weighing different amounts of illegal substances to sell on.

12. Visual Cues (Colour’s/Images) • Low-key lighting to create eerie atmosphere to set the mood of the opening sequence. • needles , pills , powder , weighing scales. • Locks on all doors. • Money everywhere.

13. Influences • We did research on Crime films that we had watched in the past and decided to include some ideas into our own. One was a series called ‘On my block’ which is where you meet two or three gangs that are based in L.A who become very violent with the weapons they hold. The other was a film called “Blue Water” which is a film based around gangs, violence and drugs which we then decided to include drugs into our film Idea, to then create a film idea based around drugs, violence and gangs. 

14. The Practicle Considerations • Where – the boys toilets in main house which is underground. • When –Broad daylight. However, will be underground. • Who – bunch of older teens and an old man to act as a policeman.