Short Film Pitch

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 A group of friends explore a creepy forest and mysteriously die one after another

This is our group's pitch for our film.  This pitch may sound similar to the pitch of Nicholas and Grant's Media Studies AS level film introduction.  That is because it is. We all really enjoyed the idea they had for their last project and want to expand on it.  Kyle, our third group member was also involved in the film introduction from AS Level.  He was an actor in the film.  In fact, he was the actor with the most screen time.  The short film will have the genres of mystery and horror.  We plan for the tone to be serious.  Hopefully, even scary.  There are many ways we have thought of making the idea from our AS Level project more in depth.  We do not plan to use footage from the last project.  Instead, we will simply use the idea as inspiration and make something new from it.  Perhaps we will make one of the students in the group the culprit.  Or, even the camera man.  Our group has toyed with that idea a lot and we like the mysterious nature of the idea.  However, we have yet to figure out how to implement it.  All in all, we have very ambitious ideas for our short film.  We are also very excited to work on it together.

Other ideas we had were "man drinks mysterious potion at 3 am and becomes a creature from a different world" and "a boy is an unwilling accomplice to his father's murders and has to choose whether to save the next murder target or not"

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