Statement of intent (updated)

Title: The Hallucination

A person experiences a hallucination on an ordinary day, causing him to panic. The protagonist is the person who experiences the hallucination, as we will experience the story from his point of view. The episode will end once narrative resolution has been created by the donor (the protagonist's brother outside the door). The ~2 minute extract will appear at the end of the show.

I plan to meet the brief by adding a multitude of locations. These will include outdoor as well as indoor locations. These locations will offer a wide variety of perspective and setting on the show. The two characters will be an innocent man (protagonist) who experiences a hallucination and his brother (donor). There will be a multitude of camera angles/shots in each scene, such as close-up, over the shoulder and tracking. This is because it will offer a wide variety of perspective on the scenes and will help create imagery and visualisation for the audience, helping them use their imagination to try and predict what happens next, especially with the tracking scene where the camera follows the protagonist. The narrative resolution will be the protagonist finding out that his hallucination as false. There will be lots of non-digetic sound/music to add suspense to the story, such as intense music, heartbeat sound effects and more. These sounds will help to add a theme of anxiety and mystery to the scenes. The protagonist will feel relieved that he was only experiencing a hallucination instead of a real event, whereas the donor will feel angry as he does not see the protagonist's perspective and he thinks that the protagonist has left him outside for too long - this creates dramatic irony for the audience. Narrative resolution will be created once this scene ends as this is when the protagonist learns of his hallucinations. One of the props that will be used is a knife. The protagonist will use this knife in an attempt to fight off his hallucination I will use an Asian character as my hero to subvert typical stereotypes of heroes.

My target audience will be Young teenagers/adults who enjoy themes of mystery. They will be people who enjoy traditional mystery/sci-fi films/tv shows such as Stranger Things and Doctor Who. My TV show will target this specific audience by incorporating themes of sci-fi in my show. The demographics of my audience would include middle class/working class people who love a good sci - fi story and young adult/teenage males who are mostly interested in mysterious shows. The psychographics of my audience would be those who like to watch and consume sci-fi media. The audience pleaseures that I will offer will be entertainment - sci-fi story and personal identity - the protagonist is a character who is struggling with a hallucination, could represent the viewer's hardships in life.