Final Storyline

This week myself and Laura met up and finalised the storyline and drew up some up to date storyboards. We decided on our characters and decided that we would have:
Main girl- Who will be called Michelle
Cinema owner- Who will be called Jeff
2 workers from the cinema
Reporters
3 different people acting as random people on the street being interviewed.
At the moment we are not sure on who will be playing what apart from the cinema owner and the main girl (who will be played by me). The other characters we are yet to cast however we have some people in mind and know casting shouldn't be a problem.

Here is the final story line that can also be found on Laura's blog.

Final story: 

The first part of the film will be very similar. We will show a clip of the cinema being used by people on the 21st May in the 1950's. It will then appear that they were never seen again. Another black screen appears, telling the audience that on the 21st May, every year since then, unexplained events occur. It will then cut to numerous newspaper reports, news footage up to the modern day , showing how still, unexplained events such as, power cuts, fires keep occurring at the Cinema every 21st May. it then appears that Michelle, the young student film maker, wants to know more and is not satisfied with the idea that this is just a coincidence... 

She decides to contact someone who worked at the cinema during the time when the group of 15 went missing during a viewing, in the 1950's. A man arranges to meet her there, to show her around and tell her what he knows.

Michelle arrives at the cinema and for a while nobody turns up but finally as she turns around he is standing by the doors unexpectedly. They go in and begin to talk about why she is investigating the place and why she finds the whole situation weird. She asks him where he was the night the people went missing, he explains how he was stood outside and he could smell burning. The film then cuts to a black screen showing people in the town being interviewed about the cinema. One woman says, "No, I no longer go to the cinema. Not after what Iv'e heard about it." After more clips of town people it cuts back to the man speaking about what happened that night. He says that when he went into the cinema, nobody was there. No film was playing. No nothing. Michelle becomes very uneasy around this man and asks many direct questions. He begins to ignore them and wanders around the foyer. He then offers to give her a tour around the viewing area. 

They sit down in the cinema seats and there is silence for a long period of time. He eventually begins to mutter the date, 1826. He tells her that this is a new date for her to remember. 21st May, 1826. He goes on to tell her how this cinema marks the spot of the old Gaol where hundreds of smugglers were brought to justice that day. He goes on to tell her about the mob that raided the Gaol and how their loved ones broke them out but many were also killed. He tells her that he never talks about this because he doesn't know who's listening. Suddenly the fire alarm goes off and cuts their conversation. 

Screen cuts again to interviewing people on the street. Michelle asks what they think of the occurrences that happened on the 21st May. Some reply that they don't want to talk about it. Others say that there is nothing wrong with that date and they've had no experiences in the cinema. 

Back to the cinema, the man shows Michelle the projector room. He talks about when he used to work at the cinema and how he used to place the film, ready to be projected, leave for 5 mins, come back and the film was tangled across the floor. He begins to laugh and find this funny. Michelle stands there looking at him blankly. He reaches into his pocket to show her a map of the Gaol and as he does Michelle notices an odd marking on his hand...

He pulls away and walks out. Michelle sits in the room for a while and talks to her camera. Asking herself why she is here and how she feels uneasy about the situation. She suddenly hears a banging. She follows the noise and realises that there is someone standing at the door. She opens the door and the man says, "Hello nice to meet you, I'm Andy, I'm here to show you round the cinema." Michelle stands there in shock and tells him that he can't be the person, as the man has already arrived and shown her round. She freaks out as she realises there is nobody but her in the cinema. The camera cuts off.   

The final scene, shows a black screen once again, telling the audience that a few days later, this information was found. A picture of the man who showed her around the cinema appears on the screen but underneath is an article that dates 1846. He is dressed in a prisoner outfit and the headlines reads...'SMUGGLER DIES IN GAOL AFTER MOB BREAKS OUT' The picture zooms in on his hand, where the mark that she saw on him is also on this photo. The next shot is black for several seconds. Michelle's face then appears as she is talking to her camera looking extremely distressed. She tells the audience that she doesn't understand what she has discovered and she doesn't know if she's solved the case of the 21st of May, but what she does know is that it happened. Maybe she broke the cycle for that horrible, horrible date or maybe she didn't. This silences her but eventually her last breath mutters, "Sometimes questions are better left unanswered." The film ends with an abrupt black screen and as the credits begin to role, a folk song(that we found the real smugglers sang at the time of the event) plays eerily in the background.