Our new opening synopsis

Our film is set in Norwich at Ormiston Victory Academy in 2013. The film is focussed on a 16 year old girl called Amelia. She is intelligent and cares about her studies, she wants to gain the best grades possible.
Amelia is first seen studying in an empty classroom. As she is studying she gets a strange call from an unknown number but she decides to ignore it. Shortly afterwards, the bell goes so Amelia walks home through the woods. As Amelia is walking home, she hears strange noises and gets another strange call from an unknown number; she decides to ignore it. Amelia then notices a lot of blood on a tree and gets a bit scared. She starts hearing noises and asks 'Is anyone there?' Amelia keeps walking but someone grabs her by the shoulder.

We changed our synopsis as we included too much. As we are only doing the first two minutes of a horror film we couldn't give away the killer like we originally planned to do.

Opening synopsis

The original synopsis

The film opening is set on the outskirts of Norwich, Costessey in the 1980’s era. The opening focuses on Amelia. Amelia is a 16 year old, brunette. She dresses appropriately and she is very intelligent, she is also naive and adventurous. Amelia lives in a semi-detached single-family house with her 45 year old father David and her 43 year old mother Karen.

Amelia is first seen running out of her house and down the road in with her dad following her early afternoon for an unknown reason. This reason is found out soon.

Amelia is upstairs in her room playing a (80’s artist) record on the 25^th November 1987 then she hears a strange noise so she warily walks down the stairs. The camera sharply cuts to a hand holding a knife covered in blood. When Amelia reaches the bottom of the stairs she finds her mother dead on the floor. Amelia begins to overwhelm with emotions as she screams at first then kneels beside her mother and begins to cry. Watching her cry beside her mother is David standing on the other side of the room with a sinister look in his eyes.

Amelia is looking around and her breathing gets heavier as David is getting closer to her.
The new opening synopsis
 

The film opening is set in Norwich at the school Ormiston Victory Academy, in 2012. The opening focuses on Amelia.  Amelia is 16 years old and brunette.  She is intelligent and cares about her studies, she wants to gain the best grades. 
Amelia is first seen studying in an empty room. As she’s studying she is getting calls and text’s from an unknown number, she ignores the unknown number, but not so long after she hears strange noises and she doesn't know where it is coming from.  Amelia decides to leave the empty room and walk home.  As she’s walking home she gets another call from the unknown number and is still hearing the strange noises. Amelia  is looking around and her breathing gets heavier  and you see the villain in the darkness .

We changed our opening synopsis because it was difficult for it to be set in the 80’s due to the setting such as buildings, cars and other surroundings out of our control being to modern and we also struggled to get an accurate representation of people in the 80's so we didn't know how to clearly signify that our characters are in the 80's.