Invoked- Plot

The title of my movie will be 'Invoked'

The opening of my movie will start with a pre-title sequence, a sign showing the name of the forest as an establishing shot and then cut to a man running through a forest, he is covered in dirt and has ripped up clothes, you can tell he has been through a lot. Heavy breathing will be heard as the camera quickly cuts among the trees, the man will seem obviously panicked and trying to escape from a calm walking figure. All shots of the figure will obscure their face and not give you a full picture of what they look like. A shot of their glowing clenches hand will be shown as you hear the figure giggling to themselves; all the while tense, quick music will be playing. The man trips at some point, but quickly scurries back up. As he hides behind a tree and calms down, we see a shot of him looking round the tree, we have lost sight of the pursuer, and neither the protagonist or the audience know where the antagonist is. The man slouches against a tree, thinking he is safe, only for a hand to reach through the tree and his chest (implied by sound effects and camera angles). As the light fades from his eyes, the screen will fade to black, with the sound of an echoing chuckle from the antagonist in the background.

Then the title sequence will begin, spooky music will play as the names of the director, cameraman, writer, producer etc. appear on the screen in distorted writing. The background images will be those of creepy woodland and symbols carved into wood, giving clues as to what the movie will be about.

I plan for the rest of my movie to be about a group of teens that go to the same forest for a secluded camping holiday, so that they can party as loud as they want, at some point, an establishing shot will be the same shot as the establishing shot of the pre-title sequence, so that we know it is the same forest. They will be having a good camp until one of the group goes missing, and the others go to search for them only to find an abandoned building with strange symbols and concoctions around. The group then realise that they are slowly being picked off one by one, hunted, and that their car is nowhere to be found.

The symbols will be Aztec symbols for different animals, the antagonist will turn out to be an Aztec shaman, who can invoke the spirits of animals to grant him superhuman strength, and other abilities.