- Married couple are called Jack and Clare (they are the main protagonists).
- Jack- aged 20. He is the smart character who likes to take control and he believes that he is always right. He has serious anger problems and before the
wedding, he used to abuse Clare which has left her with scars all over her
body. Jack has anger issues due to his poor upbringing in which his step dad
would abuse his mother in front of Jack; therefore he has been influenced by
his awful behaviour. Jack's ethnicity is Irish and he is tall, muscular and pale skinned. He has dark,
curly hair and dark, deep-set eyes with no sparkle to them at all. His beard
has an un-trimmed look to it, making him appear ‘rough and rugged’. He has a tattoo
of a skull on his right shoulder in order to show that he is violent and not
easily frightened. When he wakes up in the hotel, he is only wearing a pair of
shorts (the wedding suit has gone missing) and the only outfit he has taken
with him is a pair of dark blue jeans and a white, three quarter length top.
- Clare- aged 19. She is a 'people pleaser' who wants to get on with everyone. However, she is easily freaked out and frightened despite how brave she attempts to be. She is this way due to being bullied at school
and being abused by Jack which has scarred her personality for life. She was
brought up by both her English mother and father who were both very over-protective and
were very strict on her until she fell in love with Jack meaning they had to
let Clare gain her independence. She is reasonably short with long, straight,
light blonde hair which gives her a look of innocence. She has large, blue eyes
to portray vulnerability and her right eye has a very faded bruise circling it
which was caused by Jack, she has numerous scars around her body and especially
on her back. She wakes up wearing her nightwear and her wedding dress has also
gone missing. The outfit she has taken with her to the hotel is a light blue
pair of tight skinny jeans and a grey jumper with a white collar.
- Holly- Clare's best friend, aged 18. She is the complete opposite of Clare and frequently gets into arguments with the other characters because she never wants to help out. Her parents were born in Essex and she was very spoilt when growing up, she would
always get what she wanted and she never had to do anything for herself. She
has a very stubborn personality and did not have many friends during her years
at school as a result of this; she became best friends with Clare as they both
struggled with making friends so ended up bonding very well. Holly wears a lot
of make-up and straightens her jet black hair every day so her daily look is
not ‘natural’. The outfit she brought to the hotel was a pair of black,
skin-tight jeans, a black crop top and large, gold hoop earrings.
- Tyler- Jack's best friend, aged 19. He is the sporty one who puts a lot of time and effort into his appearance. Him and Clare eventually fall for one another before she realises that she is actually married to Jack. When Clare does realise this, it causes conflict. Tyler had a very normal upbringing and his
parents were rich so he went to a private school and college that specialised
in sport. His Father is Nigerian and his Mother is English. He knows he is good looking and at times, can be very full of himself
however; he has a caring personality so gets on quite well with the other
characters. He is very tanned and muscular with sparkling brown eyes and a quiff that has been dyed blonde which he clearly spends a long time styling each morning. The outfit he
brought to the hotel was a pair of blue, skinny jeans and a white vest top
which clearly ‘shows off’ his muscles.
- The twin brothers are called Patrick and Sean- their ethnicity is Welsh
- Patrick- aged 17. He is the shy one and is extremely smart but is afraid to speak out (wasted talent). The reason for this is because when growing up,
Sean would constantly get all of the attention from their parents so Patrick
was always left by himself. This meant he spent the majority of time alone in
his room where he would constantly study which is why he is extremely smart. He
is very well dressed and wears smart, black jeans with a red polo top and
polished brown shoes. He has dark hair which is combed back and he has
glistening green eyes which are hidden by his large, wide framed glasses.
- Sean-aged 17. He is the 'dumb' one however is very chatty so gets on well with the other characters. Due to him being less academic, he would always
be centre of attention with his parents as they wanted to help him as much as
possible. The same applied to when he was at school as he would get a lot of
attention from the teachers and he was also very popular with the other
students because he has a friendly personality. He does not care about his appearance
and he wears a full grey tracksuit with scruffy trainers. Like Patrick, he has
glistening green eyes however, he does not wear glasses and his dark hair is
extremely long and messy and looks as if he never brushes it.
- Kate- aged 19. She is a single Mother born in Croydon who has a baby daughter named Amelia. Kate is often very stressed and worried and her main priority is her daughter. Her boyfriend left her as soon as he found out she was pregnant so she was left to raise Amelia completely by herself. She does not have a job so struggles to live a healthy lifestyle and before she was pregnant, she lived off her boyfriend’s high earnings because he ran his own business. She has mousy, brown hair up to her shoulders, a large amount of freckles and dull, hazel eyes. She wears a tartan print skirt with black tights, a white t-shirt and a black cardigan. They are all poor quality clothes to represent how she has a low quality of life.
- Amelia- aged 5 months. She is the daughter of Kate and is the first character to become possessed in the series. . Due to her very young age, she does not yet have a distinctive personality but she tends to cry more than would be expected of a baby her age. When Amelia does become possessed, the characters notice strange things such as her floating above her cot and her eyes turning a bright, evil red colour.
- Jake- aged 15. He is the geek who is obsessed with comic books and computer games and he forms a very close bond with Sean as they are both talkative. He comes from a Jamaican background and he grew
up without a mother, as she died in a car crash when Jake was very young, so
has a close relationship with his father who is a comic book illustrator. After
he has the dreams which enable him to remember his Father, Jake becomes very
homesick as he is one of the younger characters and he begins to miss his
Father an awful lot. The dreams also enable him to remember his Mother which he
is emotionally affected by because he knows that it is only within his dreams
that he is given the opportunity to see his Mother. Jake wears a pair of black
jeans with a blue, marvels top which expresses his passion for comic books. He
has jet black hair which is plated into short dreadlocks and small, chocolate
coloured eyes which hold warmth and kindness.
- Max-aged 16. He is passionate about science so is extremely fascinated by the supernatural forces within the hotel and is eager to discover more about them. He has always believed in ghosts and claims to
have had visions of them ever since he was young. Both of his parents are
scientists so they encouraged him to focus on subjects such as biology,
chemistry and physics at school so he could go on to study them at college. He
often had a great amount of pressure on him to achieve perfect grades and would
get shouted at and punished if he did not achieve the grades his parents
expected of him. He was brought up in an Indian background and has dark, silky
hair with mysterious brown eyes which hold curiosity. He is very tall and wears
dark grey jeans and a baseball top in the colours black and white.
Patrick, Sean, Kate, Jake and Max are all close friends of Jack and Clare.
The setting: The hotel itself is in an isolated, eerie area and it is surrounded by a creepy graveyard and an extremely old church which is rarely used. This is the same church Jack and Clare got married in at the very beginning of the first episode. The weather is generally dark and gloomy, there is barely any sunlight to represent how the characters are in a mysterious area. The inside of the hotel has long, empty corridors and the windows are boarded up. The food and drink in order for the characters to survive is stored in the basement.
Music: I would make use of dramatic, suspensive music that will build up during intense scenes in order to leave my audience at the edge of their seats. When the characters are creeping around the hotel, I would use quiet, piano music because it creates a sense of mystery.
The escape out of the
hotel: The first ‘challenge’ the characters will come across is a
mysterious, old, black, rusty door which has a numbered code they have to work
out in order to unlock the door. The code is all their ages added together
however, it takes a very long time for them to figure it out and Jake is the
character who eventually realises what they have to do. Once they unlock this
door, a long corridor which appears to be never-ending is revealed to which
most of the characters are terrified by so only a few decide to venture through
in order to find out what lies at the end of the corridor. A new challenge will
not be found and instead they appear to be back in the original setting of the
hotel so the characters have to search for the new challenge. This is so the
dreams and nightmares can still occur and this process will continue until the
end of the series with additional obstacles such as ghosts that will always attempt
to prevent the protagonist’s from reaching their goals. The other challenges
would include: crosswords which require the characters to know a great amount
about their past; mazes and intense games which require skill, memory and
patience.
Episodes: The first episode would be called 'the discovery' and the audience will mainly be introduced to the different characters and will get to know more about them regarding their personalities. Within this episode, the characters will realise that they are trapped in the haunted hotel and they are yet to discover the way out. The first characters the audience are introduced to are Jack and Clare, followed by Kate and Amelia. The majority of the episode will consist of Jack, Clare and Kate finding and questioning the other characters and all of them are discovered in their individual hotel rooms apart from Holly. However, no-one realises that there is still another person to be found meaning their new focus is to try and remember their past, their main goal being what their name is; to which none of them succeed. Towards the end of the episode, the characters will hear the sound of a girl screaming which is coming from one of the hotel rooms which they did not spot in the first place. Jack immediately takes charge and leads a few members of the group (Clare, Kate who is still clutching Amelia and Max) to the room and as they get very close, Holly charges out. She is still screaming hysterically and when she notices Amelia, she frantically points at her shouting: “It was you! They’re after you, it was you, it was you!” This is the first ‘foreshadowing nightmare’ of the series which informs Holly that Amelia is going to be taken over by the supernatural forces of the hotel. However, the other characters and audience do not know this yet because the episode will end here as a lot of suspense has been built up meaning the audience will be left wondering what is going to happen next resulting in them wanting to watch the next episode.
The rest of the episodes will vary between certain main
topics. Some episodes will focus purely on character development and looking
into the characters dreams to discover more about their past and for some,
their involvement with the supernatural. Some will focus on the nightmares
which foreshadow deaths and possessions that happen within the hotel and the
characters attempts to prevent themselves from dreaming them in order to stop
the events from occurring. Some episodes will be about the characters escape
from the hotel and the various stages within the hotel they have to complete in
order to get closer to finding a way out. Of course, many of the episodes will
contain a mixture of these main topics. As the episodes develop, new characters
will be discovered but this will not be until later in the series in order to
give the audience a chance of getting to know the original characters very well
so they feel a connection with them.
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