Logline

Log-line & Title

"Jamie is an Internet famous Youtuber who has recently moved into a new apartment. When uploading his Vlog he starts to see strange things happening to himself on the screen. Is everything what it seems or does Jamie have a Flatmate?"

As a group we chose this as our longline as it created a sense of tension with the film, making it interesting for the audience and therefore this would cause excitement and want them to see the film. We used 'is everything what it seems or does Jamie have a Flatmate?' as it adds a sense of weariness and unexpected danger within the film, and this adds to the excitement.

This longline relates to our title of 'Viral Terror' as it highlights the main plot of the story and how as Jamie is a famous youtuber where his videos go viral, and this title perfectly ties on within the background of the main character. We decided to use the word 'Terror' as it makes the word 'Viral' sound haunting, as for something to go viral online means it spreads quickly, along with this and terror there is this concept that viral terror means something dangerous is spreading quickly; which links to David killing so many innocent people all at once.

For the title I conducted some research into other film titles and what there representation of the film was. For example a 'Nightmare on Elm Street' fits perfectly with Freddy Krueger's plot to kill innocent people within their dreams who all live on Elm Street. This approach with a direct link of the title to the plot of the film was what as a group we intended to do. Other films such as Sinister doesn't give any reference to the plot the film, yet the word 'Sinister' alone gives a haunting impression to the audience of the film, without telling us the location or the event.