Storyline for our Short Film!

For a while now myself and the group have been discussing narrative for our short film. We are still waiting for a response from the cinema but will hopefully be arranging a meeting with the cinema owners shortly, ideally in the next week to discuss further plans and times etc. However, in the meantime we have been brainstorming different ideas to present to them so that we appear more professional and I think that we have finally created a strong narrative. Below are some of the notes we brainstormed in class...

Start:

The start of our short film could begin with old styled black and white footage of the cinema in the 50's, showing a group of teenagers going in there to enjoy a film. News paper clippings could then come flying onto the screen showing how the group of young teens never came out of the cinema and went missing ever since. A black screen could then appear saying that the case was suspiciously closed and now in 2013 it marks the 50th Anniversary.

Middle:

Back to the present day, a young girl becomes very interested in the case and wants to find out more. She decides to go to the cinema with her friend with her hand-held camera to question the cinema owner and find out more. Everything looks normal and she meets a man who claims to own the cinema. After asking the cinema owner what happened the day the teens went missing he begins to tell stories about the old Gaol that once stood there before his cinema. He thinks that the prisoners of the Gaol still walk the screening room and he believes that the paranormal were responsible for the missing teens. The young girl begins to believe what he is saying especially after unusual things happening during her tour around the cinema.

End:

The young girl begins to explore on her own and finds a golden watch with one of the teenagers names carved into the back of it lying in the owners office. She immediately begins to panic and finds herself running out of the cinema. She contacts the police and urges them to come back to the cinema with her and arrest this owner for being responsible for the missing teens. When they arrive at the cinema there is nothing there but an abandoned building. Nobody was in there. Including the 'owner.' She couldn't understand what had happened and it wasn't until later that night when she was searching for answers on the Internet she stumbles across a website with the history of the cinema. There she sees the cinema owners face but there he wasn't a cinema owner. He was a prisoner of the Gaol who had killed himself in his cell before the teens even went missing. The last shot could show the young girls face staring blankly at the screen. The audience are left with many questions and it's up to them to form their own answers.