Pitch

Opening Pitch
We wanted to create a tense thriller, following the exploration of an abondoned building by three characters; however unbeknownst to them, a fourth person is following them throughout their journey.

Mise en Scéne
The most important element for us to achieve with our opening is suspense, meaning the mise en scéne will be extremely important. The location of our film is an abandoned building, containing cracks in the walls and deserted rooms (besides the junk lying around); low-key lit rooms do well to set the scene, normally only offering a single light source. We would also have shots of the characters on the roof of the building, which would of course be fully lit; however the light sources get dimmer and dimmer as they venture deeper into the building, showing their descent into the darkness.

Character Profiles
We were originally planning to have 4 characters within the film, however due to a lack of willing cast members we instead opted for 3.

Leader
This is the character who organised the trip due to his previous experience, and leads the group throughout their journey of exploration. He would constantly reassure certain members and boost the morale of the group. We didn't want him to have any stereotypical defining features of a leader, such as height, build or scars. He needed to be assertive, fair and loyal, and above all responsible for the group. His confidence would contrast greatly to that of the other member of the group.

Scared character
This would be one of our stereotype breaking characters. He was going to be tall and well built, with a seemingly alpha-male attitude which masks his genuinely scared self. He was going to wear clothes that would make him out to be a stereotypical jock or chav, as in many other films they are seen to be cocky and arrogant, the exact opposite of in ours.

Technical character
The tech guy would be the person who records their journey throughout the building, occasionally having a first-person shot from his point of view to reinforce this. His relationship with the alpha-male character would be close, and his overall attitude would be passively positive. Most of the time he would be trying to get to the scared guy, messing with his head etc. He'd never feel a need to turn back as he has all confidence that the building is safe.

Brave, unamused character
This character was originally going to be the scared guy's girlfriend, who wanted to join the exploration. With this couple we are essentially playing on the un-stereotypical views of what their attitudes and feelings would be, by swapping them round. So instead of the big jock-like character who would normally be reassuring his scared girlfriend that nothing's wrong, it's the other-way round. She would find the building interesting, and show more confidence than would be expected of her.

Our final character design was that we dropped the scared guy's girlfriend. Due to this, we had to alter the scared guy's character slightly, because he was originally only there because of his girlfriend. Now that his girlfriend no longer exists, we had to change him from a jock-like character which would look notiably out of place, to a character similar to that of the other two.

Our final characters were the leader, scared character and technical character.