Storyboard for Mayhem

Synopsis for Mayem

The city and its residents are haunted by a ruthless murderer inspired by the works of the late Dr Frankenstein. Each new crime scene, a new body part is missing and is added to his collection but will it be the final piece of his puzzle? Ca the Frankenstein killers bloodthirsty rampage be stopped? Follow Detective Dufrais, a young but experienced detective, as he searches the city looking for the man behind the mask who killed his family. Can he overcome his demons and fears and face off to the murderer that ruined his life? He might be closer than you think. 

Mayhem Screenplay

Mayhem Screenplay

 

Detective Dufrais - A young man dressed in a long trench coat and a fedora holding a notepad.

 

INT - SPOOKY ALLEYWAY - NIGHT

A view from a handheld camera is shown in a dark alleyway. Heavy panting is heard. Black screen interrupts footage every 3 seconds and shows black screen with titles on. This cuts to and from the footage and the titles. Every now and then a mysterious figure wearing a mask is seen in the footage.  Loud bangs are heard and a loud scream is heard after titles then blood splats up wall and camera falls on floor where the word MAYHEM is written.

End of scene

 

INT – MURDER SCENE – DAY

Camera shows a doorway blocked off by police tape. Detective comes into shot and camera follows him through the door.

 

Detective Dufrais: (V.O)  

Time of death 2:03 am, 19 years of age, the last piece of the puzzle, the heart.

Carved out of his chest with a butter knife.

The camera focuses on the dead body covered by a sheet with blood where the heart would be.

Last month it was a brain, the month before, a lung.

Maybe he`s expanding his collection or maybe building something, or someone.

After today he’s completed his masterpiece, a modern day Frankenstein.

I need to put a stop to this…once and for all...

End of scene

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Analysis of BFI Data - Genre and Classification

Genre                  No. Of releases    %of releases   Profit          %Of Box Office        Top Performing Title

Animation	33	4.7	246.6	21.4	Despicable Me 2
Action	47	6.7	215.4	18.7	Iron Man 3
Comedy	153	21.9	158.2	13.7	The Hangover Part III
Sci-fi	9	1.3	87.4	7.6	Gravity
Drama	141	20.2	59.7	5.2	The Great Gatsby
Fantasy	9	1.3	59.5	5.2	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Adventure	8	1.1	57.7	5.0	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Horror	37	5.3	57.5	5.0	World War Z
Crime	33	4.7	48.6	4.2	American Hustle
Music/dance	11	1.6	48.6	4.2	Les Misérables
Biopic	22	3.2	40.2	3.5	Philomena
Thriller	64	9.2	29.1	2.5	Prisoners
Western	3	0.4	20.4	1.8	Django Unchained
Romance	34	4.9	13.9	1.2	I Give It a Year
Documentary	89	12.8	10.7	0.9	One Direction: This Is Us
War	5	0.7	0.3	<0.1	Lore
Total	698	100.0	1,153.7	100.0

As you can see from the table above the Horror and Thriller genres were two of the medium profitable genres in 2014. There were less horror movies released than thriller movies  but the Horror genre made more profit and has a higher percentage of the Box office. This could be due to the fact that the Horror genre is the more popular genre. This is shown as the best Horror film, World War Z was a lot more successful than the best Thriller film, Prisoners. However, there were more Thriller films released (64 vs 37) which may show that the studios think that Thrillers are more popular than Horror films despite them making £29.1 Million compared to the Horror genres £57.5 Million.

The most popular film genre of the year was Animation. This is shown as they had the highest percentage of the Box Office and made the most money. This was due to front runners such as Despicable Me 2 which can be watched by all ages. The popularity of this genre is also shown as they had less releases but made more money than Action and Comedy films. This is because most types of film are restricted by age ratings which make the audience limited which would decrease revenue.

Genre                                  Average Number of sites   Releases       Profit

Sci-fi	422	9	87.4
Western	327	3	20.4
Fantasy	280	9	59.5
Animation	273	33	246.6
Adventure	251	8	57.7
Action	206	47	215.4
Biopic	193	22	40.2
Music/dance	168	11	48.6
Horror	145	37	57.5
Crime	132	33	48.6
Comedy	102	153	158.2
Thriller	89	64	29.1
Romance	59	34	13.9
Drama	45	141	59.7
Documentary	20	89	10.7
War	14	5	0.3
All genres	108	698	1,153.7

This table shows that the most popular genre Animation, had a lower number of sites dedicated to show the films of the genre than Sci-Fi, Western and Fantasy. This is unusual as the Western genre had one of the lowest profits and had the least releases. This is a similar situation with the Fantasy genre. Horror films again seemed more popular than Thriller films as they had more dedicated sites showing their films. This again contradicts with the number of releases as yet again, the Thriller genre had more releases which were less popular than the fewer released Horror films.

The War genre had the lowest number of dedicated sites showing their films. This may have caused the War genre to have the lowest income and second lowest number of releases: The film studios know that this is an unpopular genre along with Western films therefore they make less films.

Genre        Genre Releases    % of all       Gross Box       % of total        Best Performing Title
                                               releases          Office           Box Office 

Action	9	6.5	64.1	25.1	Fast & Furious 6
Music/dance	4	2.9	47.9	18.8	Les Misérables
Comedy	26	18.7	37.9	14.8	The World’s End
Sci-fi	1	0.7	31.1	12.1	Gravity
Biopic	6	4.3	16.8	6.6	Philomena
Horror	7	5.0	14.8	5.8	World War Z
Documentary	33	23.7	9.4	3.7	One Direction: This Is Us
Crime	8	5.8	8.9	3.5	Trance
Adventure	2	1.4	8.0	3.1	Jack the Giant Slayer
Romance	3	2.2	6.2	2.4	I Give It a Year
Thriller	17	12.2	4.1	1.6	The Counsellor
Fantasy	1	0.7	3.2	1.3	47 Ronin
Animation	5	3.6	1.9	0.8	Moshi Monsters: The Movie
Drama	17	12.2	1.3	0.5	Hyde Park on Hudson
Total	139	100.0	255.6	100.0

The Animation genre, which was the most profitable film around the world, was one of the least popular in the UK and Ireland. They had a lot less releases and made a lot less money. The most profitable genre in the UK and Ireland was Action. This was in the top 3 of the best genres in the world which shows that it is globally very popular. This genre made the most money at the box office despite having not that many releases. The Documentary genre had the most releases but didn't make much money at the box office. This may show that they are very common but not very popular. In contrast, the Sci-fi genre had only one release but made more money than all 33 documentary films put together. This shows that Sci-fi films are a lot more popular than Documentaries. 

Thriller films were more frequent in the Box office than Horror films, just like the global statistics, and yet again the Horror genre was more profitable and more popular despite having a lower percentage of all releases but a higher percentage of the total Box Office sat 5.8% compared to Thrillers 1.6%.