Saturday, 6 May 2017

Final Major Project - Devil's in the Details

Once I had my film ideas for the pitches, I needed to expand on them and create a story outline and synopsis for them to better get across what these films are, and have a greater chance of getting one of them picked for Final Major Project.

Chapter Two - Ready, Set... GO!

Helter Skelter

Story Outline


Lonely dark road at night.
Headlights crest over a hill.
We see two young charming women hitchhikers out on the empty road.
Our protagonist Matt Hunter, is driving along the road and stops and offers them a lift. The two recognize him from his band and get excited. Matt takes the girls back to his home after chatting and flirting.

He pours the girls a drink but before anything can happen, he receives a call from his band and is needed in the studio. Matt offers the girls a place to spend the night and leaves for work.


Matt arrives at the studio and the band tell him that one of the songs is been cut from the new album because the label doesn’t like it. They have 48 hours to write and record a new song for the albums release. 

Matt arrives back home after a long night in the studio to find he is welcomed by a strange and rugged looking gentleman emerging from his house. The man comforts and reassures Matt that he is not going to hurt him and that he is a fan, getting on his knees and kissing Matt’s feet. Inside there is 10+ women walking around making themselves at home. The man introduces himself as Charley and explains that he’s serving a cause and these are his followers. Matt becomes fascinated with Charley and in a way learns from him.

Charley is a fan of music and the two begin jamming together and writing their own music together. Matt starts paying for Charley and the girls, making sure they can live and paying medical bills. Charley talks to two of his girls in private right before him and Matt leave for the studio. Matt and Charley play the new song for everyone and its a huge hit, they record the song for the album and meet the deadline.

Matt arrives back home after a long night in the studio to find he is welcomed by a strange and rugged looking gentleman emerging from his house. The man comforts and reassures Matt that he is not going to hurt him and that he is a fan, getting on his knees and kissing Matt’s feet. Inside there is 10+ women walking around making themselves at home. The man introduces himself as Charley and explains that he’s serving a cause and these are his followers. Matt becomes fascinated with Charley and in a way learns from him.

Charley is a fan of music and the two begin jamming together and writing their own music together. Matt starts paying for Charley and the girls, making sure they can live and paying medical bills. Charley talks to two of his girls in private right before him and Matt leave for the studio. Matt and Charley play the new song for everyone and its a huge hit, they record the song for the album and meet the deadline.

When Matt returns home his house is empty of Charley and his girls, but not liking the loneliness, Matt leaves and heads to a bar.
Meanwhile Charley and his girls and murdering the studio executive who stole Charley’s credit, saying he manipulated Matt.

Matt returns home to find bloody footprints all over his home. As he slowly walks around his home the song him and Charley wrote starts blasting out of the home speakers. Charley confronts him and threatens him again, confessing to killing the studio executive before lunging and stabbing Matt right there and then. Matt is left to bleed out on the floor on his own as their song continues to play. Charley calls an ambulance and allows him to live.

Matt wakes up in a hospital bed with the news playing on the TV. Charley has been arrested for his crimes and there seems to be a police officer outside Matt’s room. Matt turns off the TV and plays the radio, to which their song continues to play over the credits.

The Bank Heist or (How We Illegally Obtained Our Fortune)

Story Outline

The Client-

The client is a young educated man who is visiting the bank today to shut down his account. He is to come into a lot of money very soon due to an inheritance and plans on moving away quite urgently with all of it. The clients day starts off very boring as he calls in sick at work, and gets up and ready for his day. He arrives at the bank and endures dull queues and irritable bankers. He is in the process of closing down his account when the robbery happens. He is kept hostage inside the bank and is beaten by one of the robbers. Deaths of hostages and robbers occur as The Masked Man makes his way to stealing his fortune. The Client manages to sneak away from the action and steal the clothes and mask from one of the dead robbers. He just manages to make it outside to where the robbers hidden van is. He opens up the back door to reveal all the stolen money and stands there in shock.

The Detective-

The Detective is a middle aged police officer who is currently working his last day in this city before his move to a small village. The detective mopes around and makes goodbyes before hearing about the bank robbery and is called into action to help negotiate. He gets to the bank and tries to negotiate with The Masked Man but results in hostages been killed. The Masked Man asks for police to move further back if they want any survivors. The detective offers to trade some of the hostages for himself which The Masked Man accepts. As the hostages are released, one of the robbers tries to run for it around the side of the bank resulting in the detective chasing him and killing him in an empty alley. The detective then  notices a van and carefully approaches it.   

The Masked Man-

The Masked Man is a highly intelligent figure and sits inside a van with the rest of team. The masked man goes over the plan and sends in men to the bank as customers with their masks and guns concealed until the robbery takes place. The masked man then enters the bank, shooting it up and takes the hostages. The story the continues what we’ve seen from the masked man’s point of view of taking the money and negotiating with the detective. The masked man kills many of the robbers to tie up loose ends and has the money moved to the van outside. The masked man then helps The Client with supplying him with a mask and clothes to fit in with the bank robbers and has him wait outside at the van. The masked man then makes a phone call to the detective telling him everything’s ready and that they need him to get out and find a route not blocked by cops. The Client and The Detective meet at the van and then are accompanied by The Masked Man who is revealed to be The Detective’s Wife and The Client their son. The family then makes off with the money, escaping the police.  



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