Idea Premise

Name:                    Joseph Bowles
Working Title:      In a child’s eyes
Film Genre:          Fantasy/ Horror
Length:                 10 - 15 minutes
Target Audience:  15 +
Tag line:                Innocence will save the world

               

Premise:                 In a lonely dark Forest an innocent girl lives in her own little fantasy world. However everything goes awry when her own imagination turns against her.  

 

Synopsis:               Set in a lonely forest, dark and dead. A young girl uses her imagination to bring life and colour to the dingy forest.

But everything goes from good to bad to worse when her imagination goes darker than the forest and turns against her. Can she escape the nightmare world that she has created?

Visual Realisation: ‘In a child’s eyes’ journeys into a dark, dead, scary forest. Carpeted by fallen leaves and mud and murky swamps, when subjected to a world of imagination, the forest is transformed into a Childs utopia of colourful flowers and lush green grass. A land of wonderful creatures from myth and legend makes it the ultimate children’s fantasy world.
But when the Childs fantasy turns nightmare, the lush green grass and flowers are morphed into living black oil and black thorns and thistles. The creatures of horror lurk in the shadows, fuelled by fear and a lust for blood.

 

Statement of Intent:      ‘In a child’s eyes’ Starts as a fantasy, showing the wonders and limitless of the imagination and dreams of an innocent child. However there is a second half to the Childs imagination, which is the half where nightmares and fears are born –this is the horror part of it. I intend these two worlds to be almost the complete opposites of each other. the first will be vibrant colours and be very happy and playful, especially with the creatures I will include such as fairies. And the second will be very dark and scary with a lot of emphasis on shadows and peripheral vision to show how a Childs imagination could make anything, such as a tree, be frightening. Both the worlds will be shown against the ‘Real world’ which will represent normality. I also plan to incorporate an underlying message “innocence will save the world” i want to make a statement of how industry is destroying the beauty of the natural world and it is the “un-innocent, industrial adult world” which is destroying it. To do this I will put a big focus on things becoming almost mechanical and oil orientated when the nightmare world begins.