First Plot Draft

Our First plot Draft

In a the busy centre of London, 2 ordinary teenagers were going about there everyday lives. school, homework and tests were all a chore, everything was completely normal, but when one of them is invited to a party and over hears a conversation between some shady characters everything changed!
Natalie an ordinary schoolgirl finds herself fighting for her boyfriends life. The police won't help her because his existence has been wiped! all she has is word of mouth and having to overcome many obstacles means every step that she takes, is another step towards never seeing him again.
An epic love tale about a girls fight for true love!


This is the first overall outline of our plot that we have decided on so far. It fits into the thriller genre well and the kidnapping theme was influenced by Nick and Leylas analysis of the thriller 'Taken' which is based on a ransom. However, in order to give our plot a unique selling point, we needed to come up with an interesting twist. I wanted to break some conventions in the form of mixing time periods e.g. having a character from the future in the present day in a thriller situation as it would be interesting to see how someone with a maybe more advanced knowledge would tackle the stressful situation and cope in the world. However this may be too complicated and therefore we decided instead to break the gender conventions by having the female as the hero saving the male, which is completely opposite and breaks all regular gender conventions of the huge, muscular, fearless male rescuing the damsel in distress, and the fact that the main character is female is unstereotypical and therefore, our unique selling point.

Our Second Plot draft

Holly was an ordinary 20 year old, fresh out of the University of Greenwich. Holly's life was great she had a much desired job with times magazine and a handsome boyfriend who she adored. On the night of her 21st birthday she celebrated with all of her friends at a club, the night was young but mike holly's boyfriend could not contain himself, in the middle of this packed party he got onto one knee and proposed to his darling holly. The happy couple headed home but mike needed to fill the car with petrol, they stopped off at the nearest petrol station and filled up, she went in to pay. That was when holly's great night turned bad. She turned with a smile to her boyfriend but he didn't smile back. He was being dragged into a blacked out Mercedes and all holly could do was scream. Trying to find him brings up many obstacles which mean every step that she takes, is another step towards never seeing him again. An epic love tale about a girls fight for true love!

This is the second draft we came up with. However i want to change the main female characters name to something other than Holly as it will get confusing having the same name as me. Also we have since decided a scene in an abandoned petrol station late at night would be an amazing scene to set some shots in as it has the thriller, creepy vibe.