Basic Plot

Our basic plot was originally slightly confusing, but we narrowed it down to keep it interesting, but also to induce simplicity.


The main outline was to straight away get the audience to recognize that there had been a murder. This was to create questions in the viewers mind. We then introduced the protagonist, who was apparent to be going to sleep. We then wanted to show that the protagonist was reliving the murder in his mind. We had to keep flicking back to shots of the protagonist sleeping, to show the differences from real time to dreaming. This was effective as we made it clear that the protagonist was clearly distressed. As the film progresses, we show that the protagonist was in clear disarray, walking through the 'dreamworld', not knowing where to go, however the murdered character kept appearing, as if haunting him, tempting him to follow her. This progressed into the murder of the female, which created the question of 'why?' in the audience's mind. We believed that this helped us to keep the audience interested and on the edges of their seats as they would be in suspense. We wanted to end it to show some sort of relation between the murderer and the victim, so we showed a picture of the victim in the murderers room where he was sleeping, which induced even more questions, and allowed us to end on a cliff hanger whilst the viewers were still tense. As this is clearly quite psychological, we used the film Inception to influence us on various aspects of our film.