Storyline For Our Horror Film!

This is the full story line in detail:

Horror Synopsis

Timescales:

1971…… 1991……2011

Act 1

Flashback to 1991, the cupboard – delirious girl sings ring a ring a roses as she dies (because the chemical inside smells like roses). Friend outside can’t get her out for fear of the bullies. Film this from inside the cupboard only.

• the detention room – Courtney is telling the flashback. It happened in 1971 as well. Every twenty years, a girl is murdered.
• Teacher says story is a myth and begins to stammer. Bullies make fun of Teacher, she runs from the room in tears.
• Bullies turn on Courtney – she’s not one of them, why is she here?
• Lights go off. Ring a ring of roses outside.
• Girls rush out, find her keys/belongings

Act 2 (a)

• Courtney and Kimberly go to the cupboard. Tammy and Dawn don’t want to and go elsewhere.
• Courtney explains why she’s in detention – because she thinks the ghost will strike again.
• Bad girls messing about – jump out of cupboard at Courtney & Kimberley. Courtney notices some of the chemical is missing.

• First murder (Dawn) – Tammy and Dawn off to do something bad (break into staff room?)

Act 2B

• Race to get out of the building – try windows, doors, mobiles, technology etc etc
• Ring a ring of roses over the Tannoy.
• 2^nd murder – run round the corner – one doesn’t make it. Discussion about whether to return or not.

Act 3

• Realise it can’t be a ghost, why would a ghost use the chemical?  They go back to the cupboard, realise chemical bottle is emptier than before. They discuss who will be the bait. Final girl must win.
• Tammy sets up video outside cupboard.
• Good girl in the cupboard – hears noise. Tammy tries to persuade them to go – this is a bad idea.
• Good girl tells bully to hide
• Noise
• Silence
• (teacher has returned for more chemicals)
• Teacher opens the cupboard & finds good girl.
• Good girl explains that bully is missing but set up camera & shows film to teacher. Behind Courtney, the teacher pulls out the chemical soaked rag. Courtney sniffs: can you smell roses?
• Return to 1991 – see the friend outside the cupboard. She has the same stammer/glasses as the teacher (something which links them together)

Here are a list of things that will be needed/included/used in this film:

Props:

• Rags
• Chemical bottles/containers
• Keys
• Computers
• Camera – video Spectacles (for teacher as child & adult)

Locations:

• Cupboard (in hall or classroom)
• Classrooms x 3
• Corridors
• Staffroom

Effects:

• ‘Ring a ring a roses’ on tannoy

We all had to write different summary plots based on which scene our charachter was in. I worked with Ms..?  to write my summary . Heres Acts 1 ,  2A  and 3.

Act 1 Plot Summary

The scene opens with the flashback to the 1991 of a girl called Caroline Warren being bullied at school by four girls and eventually ending up being trapped in a cupboard. As she’s dying she smells roses from the cleaning chemicals in the cupboard and to stay calm her self down she sings ringa-ringa-roses… Her friend hears her singing this so she comes along to see what is going on. As she approaches she hears that Caroline is in trouble and she hears Caroline cry for help. Her friend approaches the cupboard to help her out but hearing the bullies she runs off scared. A few days later Caroline is found dead, at this point the audience does not know who the teacher is in the following scene which is the friend in this flashback.

From the flashback the scene cuts to the present day of a group of students in detention for bullying. The four bullies are Tammy, Kimberly, Dawn and Courtney but in fact Courtney has another agenda for being in detention.  She is there to tell the story of the girl who died which was Caroline Warren. She has also uncovered another death which took place in the same cupboard at the same date which was Friday 13^th 1971. Courtney believes that something sinister will happen today as it is the anniversary of the two girl’s deaths. As she tells her story Ms. Graham starts to stammer meanwhile all the bullies except Courtney start to turn on the teacher and she runs out the detention room crying. With the teacher gone the bullies then turn back to Courtney and questions her motives being in the detention room. Courtney finally confesses that she thinks this is going to happen once again. 

It suddenly dawns on the group that they cannot hear the teacher anymore so they decide to split into pairs to find her. This is where things start to go wrong. Two of the bullies don’t believe the story while Courtney and Kimberly believe that something will happen and they are scared.

Act 2A

All four girls start to get serious and run for their lives as they think that the ‘myth’ is real because, they find their friend (Dawn) killed. Tension builds up as ‘Ring O Roses’ is being played over the tannoy. They run around the whole school building trying to find an exit to get out of school. They turn a corner but Tammy, (the bad bully) gets killed. The two girls left are still running for their lives not noticing that Tammy is missing, but they stop and hide, hearing doors moving in the wind, and windows creaking, hallucinating their minds for them to think that the ‘ghost’ is near. They find a way to escape the hidden place and try to open windows and doors the computers are not working for communication and their mobile phones have no reception…

Act 3 (The End)

Act 3 starts with Tammy and Courtney White realising that they need to do something clever in order to stay alive and uncover the mystery. They come to the conclusion that it’s not a ghost killing the bullies but has to be someone else. They go back to the cupboard to look for clues, they realise more of the chemical is missing. Courtney White and Tammy decide to set a trap to find out is really behind the killings. Courtney White decides to hide in the cupboard while Tammy videos the evidence, Tammy is scared. While Courtney is in the cupboard she hears noises. Tammy walks to Courtney and doubts the idea will work while she is talking to her they hear footsteps approaching the cupboard Courtney tells Tammy to run buts it’s too late. Courtney is scared to hear noises … and then silence. She hears footsteps approach the cupboard. It’s the teacher she opens the cupboard and is surprised to see Courtney. Courtney assumes that the teacher is on her side and tells her everything she tells the teacher that Tammy has been killed and it has been caught on tape she goes to the camera and watches the video back to her dismay she finds out that the killer is the teacher but might it be too late?

Everything will be revealed when the film is unleashed.