Character Planning for The Possession

Character Planning for The Possession

Main Character/Protagonist – Clarissa Campbell-She is 18 years and is the main character that steals the locket and becomes possessed. The story revolves on her stealing a locket from a corpse that has died in the riots and therefore is cursed and the journey she embarks on trying to find a resolution to the deaths happening.

Jayden - He Loves Clarissa and is secretly obsessed over her and tries to get her attention by helping her and following her.  After secretly following her he sees her as she steals the locket from the corpse of the stores owner and now knows the truth.  He uses this a chance to force her to allow him to be with her. She gradually falls in love with him.

Edna Wallace – The current owner of the shop who is 98 and she took care of the shop all her life. She dies falling over during the riots. And returns as a supernatural ghost in the locket that possesses Clarissa.

Carol Campbell – She is Clarissa’s mother.  She is mental and is schizophrenic and is totally dependant on her daughter Clarissa.

Mya – One of Clarissa’s two best friends. She is 18 years old. She is obsessed about her image, she is always combing her hair, looking in the mirror doing manicures etc.

Rihanna – she is another one of Clarissa’s two best friends and also 18 years old. Around her friends she is a rebel who drinks and smokes etc but hides this from her parents by acting like an angel around them and when speaking to them.

The Possession - Setting plans

We saw a nice place to film our shots because of the destruction of the riots in out film it would be a perfect place

The Possession - Writing The Screenplay

Celtx is a free media pre-productions software designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, machinima, comics, games and podcasts.


Celtx uses an industry standard screenwriting editor typical for screenplays, stageplays, AV scripts, comic books or radio plays. Celtx also includes a rich text editor for outlines. Celtx also incorporates LaTeX in its Typeset feature, which allows for more flexible templates and printing options.


During our session in class we learned how to use Celtx to write screenplays. We spent our lesson in our groups writing the screenplay for our trailers.
It is a very professional software that makes screen writing much easier.

Applying Todorov's Theory

1) The equilibrium would be the girl moving to the house and walking around the house as everything is normal

2) The disruption would be the paranormal activities and the whispering that is scary the protagonist

3) The Recognition of the Distruption happened when the trailer reveals the creatures that scare the girl

4)An Attempt to repair the disruption is shown in the trailer when it shows the family portect the girl and trying to run and escape the house

5) There is no resolution that restores equilibrium in the trailer

Todorov's Theory

Todorov theory suggest that chronological narratives are structured in five stages:

1)In the beginning there is a state of equilibrium,everything is normal and nothing is wrong at this stage.


2) Disruption ,The equilibrium is disrupted and thing turn out for the worst.


3) There is a recognition that there has been a disruption;someone realises that something has gone wrong.


4) An Attempt to repair the disruption Events Occur to try to restore what has gone wrong.


5) All had been restored and there is a resolution which restores the equilibrium and Normailty

Coursework Idea Synopsis

BloodShed High Presentation

In order to apply the recognisable conventions of trailers, in groups we came up with ideas about how to market and promote a film called BloodShed High.

We planned by making a brief synopsis of the story and characters. We also thought about our Unique Selling Points and the codes and conventions such as the credits, title etc.

We discussed on how our trailer would act as a promoting tool and how we can use the trailer to promote the film, actors, directors etc.

Since our target audience would be the youths of london we used famous directors and actors from a previous successful film. This will be our USP.  In order to make the horror trailer scary we used editing techniques such as thunder and lightning effects to capture the viewers attention.

From this exercise we learned that trailers are not short movies they are a genre of their own. And the audience expectations are key and the production is vital towards a successful trailer.

We learned how to use what we learned in AS and how to apply that knowledge to make our own trailer

Key Concepts in Synopsis

TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL is a hilariously gory, good-spirited horror comedy, doing for killer rednecks what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies. Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house, who are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count. TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL has been a hit on the festival circuit, debuting at Sundance, and winning the Midnight Audience Award at SXSW, the Jury Prize for First Feature at Fantasia, the Best Director award at Fantaspoa, and the Best Motion Picture Award at Sitges.




Guillermo del Toro presents DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK, a horror film starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison, directed by Troy Nixey. Based on the 1973 telefilm that del Toro believes is the scariest TV production ever made, the story follows Sally (Madison), a young girl who moves to Rhode Island to live with her father (Pearce) and his new girlfriend (Holmes) in the 19th-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the house, Sally starts to hear voices coming from creatures in the basement whose hidden agenda is to claim her as one of their own. Akin to del Toro's PAN'S LABYRINTH, DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK focuses on a young girl's struggle against menacing and terrifying forces. FilmDistrict will release the film on August 26th.


The writer-director team behind SAW and the filmmakers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY redefine the haunted house genre in INSIDIOUS. This horror film is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.






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