Short Film Proposal

Proposal 

Brief plot of story

A girl is seen leaving a social event, late at night, dressed up and begins to walk towards the train station to travel home. The surroundings are dark and quiet as she walks, with little to no one around.  We cut to a new viewpoint of someone watching the girl as she walks down the dim-light road, no face is shown, just their viewpoint. This continues until she arrives at the empty train station, getting on to the last train.

 

The girl gets on the train, with a shot of someone else viewpoint as she walks on. Still no face of the person shown. This continues as the girl walks down the carriage and finds a seat. The train announcement plays over the speaker as she brings out her phone and begins to play music through her headphones. The titles play and after the scene continues. 

 

The girl is shown texting her mum or friend to let them know where she is and when she will be home. This is little to no sound throughout, with the distant sound of her music and her texting. She gets of the train and changes to a new platform, without a notice of the person following, no face of this person is still not shown.

 

Once on the new and final train home, she begins to feel weary and worried as she notices the lack of people and the ‘man’ watching her. The face of this man is shown slightly, wearing all dark clothing and a hood up so little to no face can be seen. Shots of his face and hers are shown through the cracks of the seat as she notices this man watching her. The man continues to watch her as she begins to act distracted and pretend to have not noticed him, calling someone, and chatting to them. The train stops and she gets off, A shot is shown of him getting off right after.

 

She leaves the light train station and begins to start the walk home,  looking back paranoid to check whether the man is still behind her to see whether she was overthinking or whether this man was actually following her. She notices the man and begins to briskly walk home in the dark streets, shots of their feet are shown as she increases pace and so does he. Use of shadows are also used to indicate him following her.

 

She gets on to her street to her house and begins to sprint home as the music still plays in her ears, he begins to run as well. As he catches up with her, the music begins louder and almost deafening and more tense, the cuts become faster paced in line with the music. She gets to her house, fumbling with her keys as we see him running from the corner of the shot. She gets into her house and slams the door shut, just as he gets to the door and hits it aggressively. Shots through the peephole of the door, him looking through it frustrated, creepily. He turns around, leaving angrily as he hasn't been able to capture the girl to find multiple other woman, standing covered in masks, angrily waiting. The girl was a ploy for the man to follow so those he has previously attacked and followed before can get their revenge.

Once the woman have approached and they begin to reveal their face, flashbacks of them watching from the distance are shown. The same shots used before however a different focus is used.