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Lullaby Studios

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Justine Ryan
Phoebe Humphries

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Psychological Thriller

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The Unexpected

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Protagonist - Poppy, she is a 17-year-old sixth form student, normal everyday person. But soon becomes victim to an obsessed stalker that moves from constant text messages to photos, she becomes paranoid as things seem to change in her house as well.

Helper - Emma, same age as Poppy and goes to the same school. They are best friends, and she is shown to try and help Poppy find her stalker and gives her advice.

Antagonist – The stalker who is unknown until the end of the narrative, his identity is never full revealed.

They are not the only characters in the narrative, as there will be smaller extras in public places that fuel the protagonist’s paranoia when she receives texts in public.

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Poppy is a normal, everyday girl whose life is soon turned upside down when  she receives strange texts. With her best friend at her side, the two try and find out the identity of her stalker before it is too late, but all is not as it seems.

Act 1 - Poppy is shown to be an everyday girl, audience see her going to school, going out with her friends and eating with her parents. This drives the message to the audience, that there is no reason for Poppy to be stalked and has done nothing wrong. Emma is introduced, she’s shown to be a very close friend, they are shown to always be around at school. Emma is shown to be at Poppy’s house, in her room, watching TV in her lounge and eating with her, she is her best friend. It shows Poppy to not be alone and long shots could be used to make the audience wonder of this may be the antagonist watching.

Act 2 - Over a period of time, Poppy begins to receive strange texts from an unknown number; “Have a nice day”, “You look pretty today” and “Have a good day at school”, “I never liked media”. They move towards more specific messages, to do with school and her likes and dislikes. Worried about who it is and what they might do Poppy decides to show it to Emma, who tells her to ignore it, that it is probably someone from school who will get bored. Listening to Emma, Poppy decides against blocking or reporting the person and just leaves it, hoping that it will solve itself. One day after school, Poppy returns home to find her house unlocked, even though she remembered locking it this morning, but ignores this as well and goes inside. As soon as she shuts the door, she discovers a large volume of texts from the unknown number, Poppy face times Emma and tells her how paranoid and scared she feels, she tells her about the house being unlocked and shows her more texts messages. Poppy decides that she should tell her parents, but her mind is changed by Emma, who questions her about the danger it could put them in. Emma tries to reassure her, saying she is being silly and offers for Poppy to stay at hers. Poppy agrees and beings to pack her things, until she hears what she thinks is her mum arriving home and calls but here is no response, she goes looking around the house but can’t find her. As she is looking, the audience see a shadow looking through the window as Poppy’s back is turned.  She stops looking when she sees her cat, thinking that it is the cat who she heard, it is only the audience that know better due to them seeing the dark figure. Poppy tires to continue with her normal life; she goes to school, spends time with her friends and tries to distract herself. Poppy becomes more paranoid and being to react in to anything in the worst way, she hears subtle things that aren't there and fears it to be her stalker. The harassment continues as Poppy is sat in a café continuous messages come through until she decides to block the number, when she goes to the bathroom there is a note on the mirror saying that she won’t get rid of them that easily. Whilst sat down, Poppy looks at everyone in the café paranoid as to who the person may be. A new person adds Poppy, on Instagram and messages her of pictures of herself sleeping and in her room. The narrative then moves to a point of view which shows someone looking at the photos of Poppy sleeping on their laptop, when the laptop is turned off a profile of the stalker can be seen but isn’t clear enough to tell who it is.

Act 3 - Poppy is shown to be in her room, as she notices all the differences that she didn’t make. Photos are put face down, a draw is open with clothes spilling over the sides, it then cuts to earlier this morning where Poppy closes the draw and clothes are shown to be neatly folded. She uses a board to plan out everything that has happened, with photos and writing, trying to figure out the identity. Emma tries to help her figure out who it is, and gives her ideas to who the suspect may be as they plan what to do next. After Emma leaves with a promise to be back tomorrow, Poppy receives a phone call from the stalker, frightened she becomes paranoid about everything. Poppy decides to tell the police, she gathers all the texts and writes a list of the changes she had noticed. After school, she makes her way to the police station, suddenly a hand reaches out and grabs her shoulder. Turning she screams as she finds the stalker, who grabs Poppy and the screen goes black.

There is a time jump to the first day of school a year later, a noticeboard is shown with a missing poster for Poppy. The scene changes to a remote cottage, inside there is a shrine to Poppy, showing all her possessions which had gone missing. The film ends showing the outside, with an unmarked grave outside the house.

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In this narrative, we want to create lots of suspense and mystery. Through showing multiple scenarios and worrying changes it creates a build of tension in the audience, as they see it taking over the audience’s life and creates more paranoia as the characters grows.
Throughout the first two acts, there will be natural lighting this creates fear in the audience as it symbolises how this could happen to anyone as for everyone else it is just a normal day.
There will be some dark scenes in quite isolated places, this helps to build tension and can help the audience to feel the same emotions of fear and paranoia as the audience. In this film genre, it is important as it makes any jump scares and manipulation more prominent and gains more of a reaction from the audience.

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There are multiple different locations in the narrative, following improvements made from the audience survey.
Protagonists home - It helps to show the little changes that Poppy notices, especially in her room and the front of the house being unlocked. There is a focus on her everyday life, as she eats with her parents and on some occasions Emma as well.
School - This gives another location that Poppy is shown to be followed, as she receives more texts. It also gives a further look for the audience to see how close she is with Emma. This location would mean that we would need to seek permission from school, so that it wouldn't disrupt lessons as well as arranging for some other students to act as extras.
Final scene – This is the climax of the film, the location will not be revealed to the audience, and would not be featured in the trailer as it would give away the ending.

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The intended audience for this film will have the age range of early teenagers to young adults, the age of the actors is a large contributor to this as they will be able to relate to these characters and will be at similar stages of life. It will not be aimed towards a specific gender, in this narrative we hope to avoid gender stereotypes of both of what the audience would prefer and on female characters being portrayed. Through having a small primary age range it therefore means that it is important to not alienate one gender due to an unnecessary stereotype. Similarly, it won't be specific to a nation, whereas, like most independent films, it is more likely to be shown to a British audience due to it being produced in England and the limitations that an independent film can face.
For this genre of film, it is important that the audience become invested in the film and the plot twists, it gives any manipulation more poignancy. Therefore, the intended audience need to enjoy sitting down for a film and being completely drawn in to a film. In order for the plot to have the most impact the audience need to pay attention to the film, rather than having it on in the background.