Film Script

Lillith

By Vanessa Kintu

Ext/day: Graveyard

Several tracking shots showing the angel statues as the titles fade in. Wide shot of Lillith walking through the graveyard.

LILLITH (V.O)

When we are young we are read books and told stories which speak of love magic and wonder. We’re made to believe that these things exist in the real world; princesses with long flowing hair, charming princes, fairies, elves, pixies.

Lillith stops and kneels in front of her brother’s grave.

LILLITH (V.O) (CONT’D)

No one talks about the dark creatures out there, the ones who posses the ability to come into your life one ordinary day and take away everything you ever cared for.

Ext/day: University garden.

Fade to Lillith’s brother sitting on a bench studying.

LILLITH (V.O) (CONT’D)

No loving parent tells the children stories about the demons that lurk in the dark corners of the world.

Wide shot of the brother sitting on the bench and the demon standing behind him. Point of view shot of the brother’s back as the demon moves towards him. The brother hears something and turns around only to be met with emptiness. He turns back confuse and gasps as he sees the demon standing in front of him.

LILITH (V.O) (CONT’D)

Nevertheless, I know that it is these creatures that are real, I know because a year ago my brother was murdered by one of them.

The demon grabs her brother by the throat and lifts him up into the air.

LILLITH (V.O) (CONT’D)

And so I set about to write my own story, perhaps more a horror story than a fairytale, but I will write the truth about these creatures.

The demon throws her brother across the garden, he hits the wall and falls dead.

LILLITH (V.O) (CONT’D)

The dangers of knowing their existence, the fears of possessing their powers and the strength it takes to defeat them.

Location Shots

 These are the shots of our graveyard scene it is in Abney park cemetery in Stoke Newington. Which is a good location as it provides us with all the elements of a peaceful but slightly eerie place. This is where all the scenes of the sequence took place we were a little restrained with filming as we did not want to show any gravestone as people may be offended.

 This is the location for the second part of our film which is in the garden for our college. It is a nice area to do our murder scene as it was calm and peaceful but also empty to show that the 'demon' can appear anywhere at any time to do their evil work. It also helped that we could use the wall an object to slam somebody into.

Research for title sequence

Another film that inspired us was the Blade II title sequence that gives us an idea on what a title sequences does as this simply explain the back story to Blade and what the current film is about as Blade tells us a story on his life with scenes of it . We can use this to show the lead character of our title sequence. This was the storyline that we used to make our title sequence as we can show different scenes while using a voiceover to explain what is going on, so the viewer is not left confused.

This particular horror title sequence that we found on YouTube was of particular interest,as the use of font and visual effects along with the non-diegetic instrumental soundtrack created a terrifying atmosphere. We want to create a similar reaction from our audience from watching our title sequence,so we will be working on our font and making it spooky.

Furthermore,there are some elements in the title sequence of the film 'Seven' that are similar to the above video. both use white font that sparks up, flickers and moves up and down, this animation creates an eerie atmosphere. The use of extreme close-ups in the 'Seven' title creates dramatic tension.


The Bourne Identity has helped as it focuses on one character and allows us to put a lot of detail in the character we are using such as clothing that can express what kind of person our character is. It also makes the audience feel affection towards the character but also fear and other feelings. In the film there are many shots of the main character shown as a criminal we can use that to give a different image of our character.

We also wanted a choke scene when our victim gets killed and we found a good choke scene to base it from which is Kyle Xy which is a TV series about a boy who is an alien.

We also wanted a choke scene when our victim gets killed and we found a good choke scene to base it from which is Kyle Xy which is a TV series about a boy who is an alien.
It has the grab, that initiates the scene then there is a cut to the legs lifting up which made us believe he is being lifted up followed by a low angle shot of the man being choked.

Film Making Evaluation Questions

1. 1. Our media product uses the conventions of film,by using establishing shots as well as wide shots,which are regular camera shots used by film makers. We challenge the conventions of films,by using a female as the main character. Our film alls in the genre of an action thriller film, as it does involve elements of tragedy.  We use the location of a graveyard,ts is a generic onvention of a horror film,as t has connotations of a ghostly figure,which are mostly featured in a horror film.
   2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
   3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
   4. Who would be the audience for your media product? Our target audience is anyone over the age of 12,as it dosen't necessarily need parental guidance.
   5. How did you attract/address your audience?
   6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
   7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? 
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Storyboard

The storyboards are now complete and there is a link to download the full storyboard is here if you wish to view them.

Filming Schedule

Tuesday 21st February - 09.00am: Filming at the cemetery.
Friday 26th February - 2.30pm: Filming parent's death.

Operation Cemetery

In order to capture the thriller essence that we aim to have in our title sequence we choose Abney Park Cemetery as one of our two filming locations.