PLANNING & RESEARCH - Plotline summary :D

Ok, so this is the narrative of our film :) I'm afraid you may have to read it several times to totally understand, its just a little bit confusing...!

• Megan is an average teenage girl of 19 who attends university, which is where she meets Eric, the male lead in our film. Megan and Eric start to date and after a few months have fallen in love.


• However after they have been going out for about a year Eric begins to act strangely, his personality changes and she is finding it increasingly difficult to contact him, even though when she speaks to him he seems to know everything shes been doing.


• Megan gets scared and tries to run away but he finds out and attacks her, even though she still doesn't know why.


• she manages to escape and contacts the police who eventually arrest him.


• Megan thinks she is safe and relaxes, but one night he comes back to her house and just as he is about to kill her another man who looks just like Eric bursts into the room.


• This second man desperately explains that he has just escaped from the police station and the man who is about to kill her is his twin brother.


• Eric had been trying to keep his brother a secret for years as he didn't want anyone to find out that his brother was mad and take him away. However one day his brother got so tired of being kept in the house he attacked Eric and locked him up, taking his place in society he planned to kill the girl Eric loved to get revenge.


• Eric is just trying to reason with his brother to put down the knife which he has them both cornered with when the police burst into the room, they are momentarily stunned by the two men standing before them and Eric's brother uses this split second to stab Eric in the chest.


• The police shoot the brother who dies instantly, shortly afterward Eric dies in Megan's arms.

This postmodern ending is a twist in what would have been a typical fairy tale. Other than this final moment our film follows the conventions of Vladimir Propps theory of Spheres of Action, with a Villain and Hero, whose reward would have been the Princess.

Lucy :)