Planning and Research: Recurrence Finalisations

We aim to target the film Recurrence at 15-18 years olds as it depicts the tragedy that befalls a teenage girl and therefore a teenage audience we believe would communicate best with the message we are sending out.

The film is something that we want the audience to be actively involved in and not passively involved in. We also wish to sell the film to a major film distributor such as Warner Bros and Paramount as the film is intended to best suit huge audiences and sold for cinema not nation television stations.

The Soundtrack for the film is Peaceful Sleepers which was Written by Amy Barton and sung by the group Amy’s Ghost, the song works really well in to the film and shows the tragedy as well as the triumph.

Planning and Research: Whole Film Synopsis For Recurrence

Synopsis of the whole film

Set in a suburban town, a teenage girl is seen to run away from her mother’s house to move in with her father. Lara (the teenager) does not realise what she is about to encounter. She enters the house expecting to be greeted by her father who appears to be out.

As she begins to explore the house and move her things in the audience begin to realise that she is not alone in the house, and that she is being watched. Lara calls her father who answers and says that he has been called out of town due to business and will be back a.s.a.p. A little spooked by the house Lara calls her boyfriend Matt explaining what has happened and he agrees to come and stay with her until her father comes back from business.

Soon the couple realise that there is something seriously wrong, and both say that they have seen a young girl walking around by the river and in the garden. Matt says that they are probably paranoid and due to the events that have happened all they need is a good night’s sleep and to put it to the back of their minds. Suddenly they couple wake in the middle of the night to find the girl standing at the end of the bed. She says that she is merely there to warn them that the same fate that had befallen her will happen to Lara and she must leave as soon as she can. They demand to know what she means but she vanishes in to thin air.

Overtaken by curiosity the couple find the old house records in a desperate attempt to find out who the girl was. They soon find out more than they wanted to. Her name was Lucinda Kent she lived in the house over a 100 years ago and was found brutally murdered along with her mother and brother her father was also found dead next to them and it seemed that he had taken his own life.

Confused Lara and Matt decide to leave and get away from the area, yet as they are about to leave Lara’s dad arrives back and says to the two that they are being stupid, that they were probably just imagining things and that they are perfectly safe with him. Reassured they decide to stay.

The next day the couple find that they cannot leave the house the doors are locked, and when they go down to the basement in search of tools to get out they find Lara’s mother and brother dead in the cellar. Frantically trying to find a way out they realise that what happened all those years ago was the father had killed his family and took his own life as he was ashamed of what he had done.

Lara and Matt as they try and leave the basement are confronted by Lara’s father as he points a shotgun at the two and states that he had to do it. But before he can shoot them both Matt leaps for the gun two shots are released in the struggle one hitting Lara’s Dad. As he lies bleeding to death on the floor Matt turns to reassure Lara and finds that she has also been shot.

He holds her until she dies and you see him leave the house before the police arrive. He later discovers that the young man who was courting Lucinda had been at the house when her father had gone insane and he disappeared after the family had been killed.

Planning and Research: Finalised Script for Recurrence Opening Two minutes

Script

Characters

Lara Allgood

Mrs Allgood

Girl

Scene 1

Fade In

Close Up : A candle is set against a stone pillar and is alight, words appear above “Some say that fate is set in stone” the words fade and new words appear above “yet what if fate was merely the past repeating itself” the words once again fade and the candle is blown out “RECURRENCE” appears above the candle.

Long shot: Of a girl leaving the house holding a lit candle

Close up of the girl holding the candle she looks up

Fade out

Fade in

Wide shot: Lara is sitting on the sofa non diegetic music plays over the top as her and her mother have an argument. Lara storms out of the room.

Long Shot: Lara slamming the door and walking up the stair well, across the landing to her room.

Montage of mid shots, close up and over the shoulder shots: Lara packing to leave the house, grabbing her things and walking back down the stair case putting on her shoes and leaving the house and walking down the street.

Fade out

Fade in

Long shot: Lara walking round the street corner and entering the drive way.

Another montage: Lara walking down the driveway approaching the house.

She lets herself in to the house and walks through the hall way under the stair well and out the back door in to the garden.

Long shot: Lara walking to the same position as the girl in the previous scene she looks around.

Fade out . 

Research and Planning: Filming

The filming of Recurrence went smoothy in terms of timing, however when we came to editing we realised that the actual footage that we captured did not work to the effect that we wanted and so as a group we have come to the consensus that some re filming was needed as well as a slight change to the plot as that was what was needed to make the concept of the film effective.