the lonely wood story

Two people decide to go exploring their local wood which is coated with a bloody history which interests one of the two and decides that he wants to go exploring the wood to find out why exactly the place has such a bloody history. they go away from the tourist trail and venture deeper into the wood. A dark, dim and eerily strange part of the wood, which nobody dares to go into. The local nickname for the wood is the lonely wood. As the venture deeper into the heart of the wood the trees start to get closer and closer together, giving them slow route there but also making it more complicated to escape from the wood.

They decide to travel straight forwards for an hour they think this way it will be easier to find their way back out of the wood, unfourtunetly the trees seemed to working against them sending them off track as they venture closer to the heart of the wood.

Synopsis

The film the lonely wood follows Richard and Dave as they read up on a tale about the gruesome history of their local wood. They head into the wood and go away from the safety of the tourist trail which leads them into the realm of the demented figure who has made its home in this secluded part of the woods and doesn’t like being disturbed and starts to chase Richard and Dave as they try to escape from the figure. They can’t remember the way back to safety and Richard leads the way so Dave assumes that he knows where he is going and follows him.

The two adventurers then they find and short tunnel which cuts under a passing set of train tracks. They get to the end of the tunnel and the figure is in front of them, this is designed to scare the audience. They double back and get back to the other side of the tunnel and run back through the woods looking for the tourist trail and this sequence of the film ends with the figure watching them near by. This is designed to keep the audience watching and to isolate them from one and another.

film studies creative project brief

i am creating a sequence from my imagined film which involves the history of wood covered with a bloody past and a unsolved mystery. which will be 3-5 minutes long and will make use of editing and mise en scéne.