Group: Initial Concepts - Discussion 1

Today the group got together in order to create a general concept. The decisions reached were:

• We want to do a combination of psychological and supernatural horror.
• Our inspiration comes from 'Fight Club' (Fincher, 1999) and some shots inspired by 'Donnie Darko' (Kelly, 2001) and 'The Shining' (Kubrick, 1980).
• We will use a single male protagonist/antagonist as is conventional of this particular style of psychological horror.
•  The protagonist will have split personalities: himself (with a conscience and somewhat 'good') and a supernatural-esque voice in his head (morally wrong, the embodiment of the 'evil' nature inside himself)
• The backstory for the protagonist is that he has gone through deep emotional pain throughout his life as a result of harm both physically and mentally from other individuals, which has led him to the depressed/schizophrenic state he is in now.
• The horror aspects come from the psychological torture he goes through at the hands of his other personality and the murder that he commits as a result of the persuasion from the voice/being.
• We think the representation of his other self could be shown through mirrors where the being is shown rather than the protagonist himself. Another idea is to have them both in the real life narrative as individual characters but the voice, although shown as seeming like a real person, being a figment of his imagination.
• We have also contemplated the idea of beggining the film at the end of the narrative with the inclusion of suggestive flashbacks as proleptic references and shots of a noose (or similar props) to suggest suicide from not being able to handle them emotional strain.