Original Idea:
My original idea was about a girl's sister going missing despite her meeting her after school everyday; the shots would track the lives of each sister as they occur, with one of them walking through a safe environment (school building) and the other going through the woods. The concept of the narration, the flashbacks and the forest-stalker was kept in the developed idea, as I saw them as key conventions that really pulled the opening together into the thriller genre.
Developed Idea:
My developed idea became a story about two girls in a relationship who meet everyday at the same place - a tree in a forest, labelled by a pink scarf. The flashbacks feature their relationship along the past year, and goes along with a voiceover by Emma, the other girl in the film alongside Scarlett. The date then shows that it is a saturday - the day they always meet - and to make the relationship even clearer, it is Valentine's day. Emma is on the phone, and her speech helps to establish that the two are in a relationship, and the norms of it. Scarlett reaches the tree, characteristically "early", but finds she is not alone; multiple shots make the audience assume that she is being watched from several directions. When Emma reaches the tree, Scarlett is nowhere to be seen, so she calls her.
My idea meets the brief due to it containing followed/subverted conventions and also being two minutes long. It contains the main convention of a thriller: the girl is either dead or missing, and there is a sense of fear and tension throughout. It doesn't cross into being an either action or horror film, and stays within definitive thriller boundaries; it features no visible action, and doesn't involve extreme gore and such involved in horror films.
I also made a Prezi containing more information:
After I had figured out my idea and what I wanted to do with it, I decided to create a small (and very rough) draft of what the advertising poster might look like. I wanted to capture both the feeling of being stalked - hence the lower right depiction of Scarlett being followed - and also the essence of what the film was about; Scarlett herself and her relationship with Emma. That's why the top left has a depiction of the two of them holding hands.
