Synopsis

A newly married couple, Rhys (aged 37) and Bethani (aged 35), move into a new home to begin their new lives together. Throughout the first three months of living in their new home the couple experience weird unusual activity within their house, for example the sound of footsteps running about and a laugh which sounds like it belongs to a young child. The couple ignore it and think it is just the young children who live next door. Three months after moving in Bethani begins to have a nightmare, in the nightmare Bethani sees a young child, aged around 6, running about, laughing then becoming really sad/upset suddenly. Bethani’s nightmare seems to be in fast forward. She awakes scared, heavily breathing and feeling very uncertain, to which she turns around and see’s the young child that was in her nightmare stood next to her bed. From that moment Bethani makes it her mission to discover who the young child is and why they are haunting her and her new husband’s home. Rhys does not believe Bethani and thinks she is going mad, to the point where they nearly break up other Bethani’s obsession, until Rhys (three months after Bethani) experiences the same nightmare as she did, Rhys also awakes to see the young child stood next to his bed. He realises Bethani is not in bed so he goes downstairs to try and find her, there are messages written all over the house explaining the young child's existence. She/He lived in this house thirty years previous with their alcoholic uncle after his/her biological dad had disappeared when he/her was 4 and the mother had committed suicide not long after. The young child had suffered abuse from their uncle for two years before he got more than angry with her/him one night and killed her/him. Pictures and messages are all over the wallpaper explaining this.  Rhys is frightened and scared for Bethani as he cannot find her. He hears whispering in the kitchen so he goes to find out what it is, and stood over Bethani’s dead body is the young child. The young child points to the wall behind Rhys, he turns around and sees a message on the wall, ‘I don’t want to leave, those who interfere will suffer what I suffered’ is written next to a picture of the young child laid in the same place and position as Bethani is now, with the uncle stood over her.

Chosen Sequence

The sequence from my imagined feature which I have chosen to produce and develop into an extended sequence is about a quarter of the way into my imagined film and it establishes the basis to the narrative. The sequence I will be producing will be the nightmare that Bethani has where she sees a young child running about being happy then sad, and then Bethani awakes to see the young child stood beside her bed. This scene introduces the character that Rhys and Bethani have being hearing within their new home but unable to work out who and where the noises are coming from. This sequence then makes Bethani more aware of the young child and sets her on a quest to discover who the young child is which is what the narrative is based upon.

Todorov

Bethani (The Protagonist)

Rhys (The Protagonists Husband)

Sophia/Robbie (The Antagonist)

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Bethani and Rhys’ new home as a newly married couple. (Diegesis)

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Bethani has a nightmare where she witnesses a young child running about laughing and playing, then she wakes up to find the young child stood next to her bed. (Disruption)

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Bethani begins on a quest to discover who the young child is and why they are haunting her and her new husband’s home. (Quest)

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The quest takes over Bethani’s mental state. Rhys finds messages over the walls explaining who the young child is. Rhys finds Sophia/Robbie stood over Bethani’s dead body in the kitchen. (Resolution)