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THE BUTCHERThuvaaragan Kuruparan

Hassan Shahid

Rikhel Trivedi

LOGLINE

• An unknown man goes around kidnaping innocent women and tortures them to death. Lucy is his latest victim. Will Lucy’s boyfriend help her escape the trap or does her fate lie in the hands of The Butcher?

NARRATIVE

Non-Linear Narrative

• Lucy wakes up in a shed dirty and tied up and is about to get killed.

• It was a nightmare and she wakes up and goes to the bathroom to wash her face.

• When she looks up she see’s someone behind her and gets kidnapped.

DISTRIBUTION

• Genre – Horror

• Crossgenre – Thriller

• Subgenre – Slasher Film

• Time Period – Contemporary

• Budget – Low to Medium

• Location – A house. A Butchers Shop

CAST

• Lucy – Natalia Cotonou

• The Butcher – Aron Maher

MUSIC

• Diegetic – Voice over, Sound effects.

• Non Diegetic - Background music

THEMES

Crime

Death

Violence

Gore

Paranoia

MISE-EN-SCENE

• Location – Bedroom, Butcher shop.

• Props – Butchers knife. Ropes

• Costume – Butcher; Butchers clothes. Lucy; Ripped up dirty pyjamas at start and clean pyjamas when she wakes up from the nightmare.

• Lighting – Bright the whole way through.

• Colour – Dark for antagonist and light for protagonists.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Primarily both male and female aged from 15 to 30 years old.

• Socio Economic group – E to C1

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