A Proposal for an FMP (short film or script)

Deaths Apprentice
Horror

By Holly Lambert

Delta Digital Productions

The date here

PROPOSAL

Logline: (must be less than 30 words, it must contain the character, motivation & obstacle)

The authorities are investigating a key suspect about a recent bloody murder in a small town.  Details
of the case slowly unravel. 
Tagline: (a line which would feature on the poster)

Unravel the murder 

Format: (feature or episode or short)

Stop motion animation

Length: (in minutes)
3 Minutes

Genre: 
Horror

Age Rating: (BBFC certified)

18

Synopsis: (a summary of what your film is about and what happens, include all 3 acts and
the ending)
Act one 
Evelyn is handcuffed to a police interrogation table. Opposite her is a police officer who is showing
her evidence that she committed a murder. She is laughing. Everything is backward. Rewinding the
tape and time itself 
Act two 
Parts of a body are being thrown into Evelyn is seen cutting up a body. The blood is being
slowly sucked up back to the body. As she saws the bones it’s as if the body is being healed by
Evelyn. The more alive the body is becoming until we see the victim’s eyes open. 
Act three 
Evelyn retract her stabs on the victim. Each one getting more powerful and the pain lessons on
the victim’s face. until all the blood has gone back into the victim. The pain flows away just like the
blood. The victim and Evelyn are walking backwards. Back from a bus stop. We see them sat down.
The final shot the are shaking hands. 
 

Characters: (In-depth breakdown of your main characters - including pictures)

Evelyn is the main character. They are an antihero desire as they kill the victim. She is a 20-
year-old girl who makes someone uncomfortable while being drunk at a bus stop than
leading to her killing the other victims. She is purple as that is the colour associated with
passion and desire.

Mia is the drunk victim. She has been drinking all day and has only just turned 18. She is just
wanting to get home after a been broken up by her boyfriend.

Target Audience: (include psychographics and demographics)

As I am making my film as a personal passion project, I will not have a specific target audience, it will be
as if I was the perfect target audience member. It will be all the things that I like and look for in a short
film and I will focus on my research on the topics that interest the target audience member (me) most.
The 'perfect' target audience member is withing the 18-24 age bracket. My Acorn demographic is 5/o/50.
STRUGGLING YOUNGER PEOPLE IN MIXED TENURE They will shows with a dark tone that often
involves British police shows. They notice colour plates first before any anything else. They are very
visual and notice the small detail. They also love stop motion and the way they explore different themes.
Resources needed: (include actors, crew, locations, archive footage, music, props etc)
The resources that I will need to complete it will be armature wire, cardboard, latex, acrylic
paint, tripod, camera, wool, wooden dolls house, gorilla glue, basic LED circuit board, a clip
of a police report of a murder case and final cut pro and Nikon D3500

About Me/Us: (short bio about you)

I am a passionate young film maker at the start of my new journey into exploring ways to tell
stories and expand ideas through film and other forms of media.

What I/we Want:

I want to create a project that shows off my skills and I want a project that I can be proud of.
If it goes well than I will submit it to film festivals.