First thoughts:
Nightmare or paranormal nightmares: About a group of twenty
completely different people who survived a shipwreck (the other people on the
ship died) to find themselves washed up onto a haunted island. These people,
little do they know, all have some involvement with the supernatural which is
the reason for their unusual survival, however they do not know this and the
only way they can discover their past is in their dreams. These first
nightmares however are foreshadowing a death or possession that will happen to
one of the characters and they are not aware of this until two have passed
away. The only way for the nightmare not to come true is by not dreaming it,
which is almost impossible and the characters have the immense challenge of
trying to control their dreams to try and defeat the paranormal forces on the
island. At the same time, they still need to discover about their past to
understand why they survived the shipwreck and what they can do to help defeat
these forces.
Development of
this idea:
Instead of being on an island about twenty people surviving
a shipwreck, the television series could be based in a haunted hotel. The
reason they are in the hotel is because the night before, there was a wedding
and the married couple and their closest friends all stayed in the same hotel
that night (there were no other guests in the hotel). When they wake up the
next morning, they are trapped in the hotel (all the doors are locked) and they
have all been completely wiped of memory. The only way they can regain the
stories of their past is within their dreams and as the series develops, they
and the audience begin to understand that each of the characters have some
involvement with the supernatural. However, there are times when a character
has a nightmare which foreshadows something awful (e.g. a death or possession) that
is going to happen to someone and when they realise this, the characters must
find a way of controlling their dreams so the supernatural forces of the hotel
do not overcome them completely. The main problem is that the only way for the
nightmare not to come true is by not dreaming it but the characters still need
to dream about their past to understand why certain things occur in the hotel.
There are additional ‘obstacles’ within the hotel such as ghosts (which the
characters at some point could be able to interact with) and as the people
explore further into the hotel, they discover more and more secrets that lie
within it.
In order to find an escape out of the hotel, the characters
realise that there are challenges and quests that must be completed, for
example, secret mazes and coded puzzles. During the completion of these
challenges, characters are killed or they disappear but also new characters are
discovered that have been trapped in the hotel ever since they last stayed
there.
The title:
·
The title of my television series would be:
possessed.
Genre:
·
Supernatural
·
Horror
·
Thriller
The characters:
· 10 characters at the beginning of the first
season- all under the age of 25. I have decided that they should be of a young
age so the teen audience can easily relate to them. One of the characters is a
very young child or baby because people are emotionally affected by children.
The receptionists that worked at the hotel have gone missing and later on in
the series they are found to be dead or possessed.
·
New characters are found as the series
develops, they are slightly older due to being trapped in the hotel for a
longer amount of time. These new characters also help the original characters
to control their nightmares.
·
Due to being wiped of memory, the couple do not
remember getting married and they fall for different people. However, when they
realise they got married when they dream about it, arguments begin to occur and
there is a lot of drama between the characters.
·
There would be a mixture of both male and female
characters- no dominance of one gender in order to make the characters
relatable to a male and female audience.
·
We learn more about the characters through their
dreams. The first episode will not begin with the wedding but with the
characters waking up in the hotel, I am doing this so the audience can share
their confusion and so they only know as much as the characters know, therefore
helping the audience to engage with them to a greater extent.
Setting:
·
England, in a haunted hotel (called church’s
yard hotel) which is surrounded by an old church and a graveyard. The lighting
will be dark to create tension and suspense.
Music/sound:
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During intense scenes, there would be quiet
music that gradually builds up creating suspense and to make the audience feel
more involved with what is happening. I would also use children’s nursery rhyme
music because it is effective as teen audience would find it sinister.
·
I would make use of sound effects such as
screaming to alarm the audience.
Technical aspects:
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It would consist of two or three seasons, each
containing 15 episodes.
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Each episode would be 40 minutes long.
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Post watershed (after 9:00).
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