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= Film Genre Paper = // Due Monday May 19th, 2008 // Objective: To evaluate the elements of a chosen film genre and compare and contrast these elements in an acclaimed film of that genre and the film that is being made in class.

Document: Typed, 2+ pages (12 pt, double spaced), Works Cited (with citations within document). Requirements: 1. Description of elements of chosen film genre: What are the attributes of that type of genre ( recognizable patterns, syntax, filmic techniques or conventions) ? Use [|http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html and at least __one__ other source for your information (not Wikipedia). 2. Choose one acclaimed film in your chosen genre (it must be listed in the top 25 for that genre). Rent the DVD and watch the entire film. Stop the DVD at times and takes notes about specific elements of that movie as it relates to the genre. In the paper, describe specific scenes and how the elements of that scene add to the overall theme of the genre. Pay attention to dialogue, audio, lighting, special effects, editing, camera movements, etc.. 3. Opinion of your chosen genre. Do you like it? If you would change something about the genre what would it be? Other comments. = = =Resource List= = = = = = = = = =Film Genre ideas:=

Gangster names, slang terms, etc.. http://lowchensaustralia.com/names/underground4.htm

Crime / Gangster crime fighting team original super hero Irish mob in Boston Murder mystery - won young killed - why? Mistaken identify revenge drug deal went wrong accidental Car crash conspiracy Comedy Dubbed japanese kung fu movie Daytime soap opera long lost sister - what? love triangle Silent Movie - old machine Biography - historical fiction Musical of a typical day at Valley Catholic Science Fiction / Horror Zombie are taking over the world
 * Brief story ideas:**

=Story Ideas:= A small disease starting in northern Africa has turned into a worldwide pandemic. After school one day, with only a few students left, they get word that the disease has reached Oregon. Thousands of people are dying every hour. The students know they must stay inside the school know it is safe. Suddenly a note is found in the school that a large amount of liquid carrying the disease is set in the school, and set up to release the disease at 5:00 pm, which is an hour from when they read the note. They must find where it is stored before they catch the disease and die. Protagonist wakes up to an alarm, groggily hits snooze button. It’s a bright morning, birds chirp, and our main character is reluctant to get out of bed. After a moment of hesitation he gets up and goes through his morning routine. As he leaves the house, he sees his neighbor and greets him in the usual fashion. As he drives to work, he notices peaceful townsfolk going about their lives. The song on the radio is interrupted by a news bulletin and, annoyed, our hero changes the channel. Before music resumes we hear briefly, “Explosion at the George C. Romero BioLab…” At work there is a bit of a murmur about the accident as the Lab is just outside of town. As the colleagues watch the news, it becomes clear that something is wrong. Firemen are going into the facility and not coming out. (*all the news can be off camera with reaction shots*) The office manager gives the coworkers the day off due to the hysteria gripping the town. As the hero drives home he sees the same peaceful townsfolk, only now visibly different. He arrives at the house and the friendly neighbor attacks him. He wards off the attack and manages to get into the car as passers by begin to attack him. He drives out of the city for days without stopping before the car breaks down in the country. He believes he’s safe, however and gets out relaxing a bit. He looks out over the landscape and sees a shape moving towards him. It appears to be a person moving towards him. He blinks and squints to see who or what it is and notices it’s being followed by many more shapes. He’s being followed. He turns to run with a look of panic on his face. The End. -CSI VALEY: The Murder of Mr. Berg 1** It was late night last night for some teachers (teenager versions of the teachers). Mr. McQueen and Mr. Braun have asked Mr. Berg to come to a very important meeting in Mr. McQueen’s room. After a couple of hours wondering where he was, McQueen and Braun decide to look for him. When they get out of McQueen’s Room they find Berg dead in freshman hall, with a knife through his chest. School is called off for the next couple of days. They call in the CSI investigators of VC High. Theresa and her team get there first assignment. They interview the staff at Valley Catholic. She and her team are led to clues that Mrs. Durbin was going to be fired because there to many complaints from other teachers, students and the parents of the students that were being mistreated and being harassed. So the school was deciding to fire her on these actuations. The question the a few staff members about this new lead on Mr. Berg’s death (Mr. Withers, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Brown, and The Principles). They all give Theresa and her team answers to there questions. Mr. Seiwald, who works in the crime scene lab, finds a partial finger print on the murder weapon and Berg’s blood collected from Mrs. Durbin’s sweater proved that in fact Durbin was the murderer. Theresa’s and her team of investigators re-question Durbin. Durbin finally admits to killing Berg, so she could keep her job. Theresa and her team get a permanent job at VC and there own office after solving this crime. Thus ends the case of The Murder of Mr. Berg. With the absence of soda this year at Valley Catholic High school some students have started an underground soda smuggling ring. One reporter for the local paper tries to infiltrate this underground and expose it. He goes undercover as a new smuggler and gains access to the largest soda gang on campus. But all hell breaks loose when he is involved in a soda exchange gone wrong where students are hurt. He is now the prime suspect in the crime. How will he get out of this? He is torn apart about what to do, either expose his new found friends in the soda smuggling business or expose them all to prevent his arrest and prosecution.
 * Action: nominated by Mike 6**
 * Zombie: nominated by Billy 4**
 * Murder Mystery/Drama - nominated by Theresa
 * Gangster: nominated by Stephen 10**

A dozen Valley Catholic students receive in the mail an invite at the school about a competition for $100,000 dollars. The students chosen are in desperate need of the money for college and decide to take part in the challenge. The game consists of following random hidden clues throughout the school that will lead them to the money; first one to find it takes it all. They all must escape from separate locked classrooms to start gathering clues. Any destruction of school property gets them disqualified, and that is the only rule. This exciting game suddenly turns violent as greed starts to set in. Some plan on sacrificing their opponents, who are close friends, to get their hands on the much needed money. A race for $100,000 now becomes a race for survival, yet nobody decides to step out of the challenge. It’s do or die time. Everyone thought an overnight retreat at valley was a great idea. Until a student is found dead in his sleeping bag. From an arrow! While the investigation is under way, students go missing in increasing numbers. After finding more arrows and other miscellaneous objects are found, a group of students decides to research the events on their own (because that’s what all stupid teenagers do in horror films). The night ends in the teens almost being eaten by what appears to be zombie Native Americans. After more research, the teens discover that the nuns actually battled Indians for control of these lands, and that the gym is built over an Indian graveyard. Now they must find a way to appease the spirits before the school is lost to a zombie invasion.
 * Action/Comedy: nominated by Nick 3**
 * Horror: nominated by Alan 5**

The Ring, Grudge, Blair Witch Project, mix/spoof [It’s supposed to actually be scary] Character[s]:A tired average student living a pretty normal life. Plot: A new school year starts and the student signs up for a locker. The locker happens to be next to the empty lockers which never open. One day, the student isn’t able to be picked up from school. Sitting by their locker waiting, the lights flash and the school temporarily shuts down. It’s rainy outside and overcast so it’s dark. There is nobody left b/c all sports practices have been canceled and Mr. Jinadasa is taking his day off. Walking to the office, the student finds out that Mrs. Joyeaux is missing. The doors to the front, side, and any other door that leads to the outside of the school is mysteriously locked. Something lurks in the dark. The only light is one from the cafeteria. Cell phone service is gone. The student anxiously waits in the cafeteria and there happens to be a TV there. As like the ring, the TV goes into static mode, but instead of the girl from the ring, Paul Hewitt (from physics videos) pops up. Something dark slams into the glass and runs off. The lights in the cafeteria also go off. The frightened student rushes to the office where Mrs. Joyeaux is. She has her back to the student. Panicking, the student frivolously questions and has an emotional breakdown. The lights go out and Mrs. Joyeaux turns around and says [with a low eerie voice, possibly voiced-over by somebody else. Also, there is a light shining from her face, like a flashlight under her chin, making her face glow with scary-ness…], “thank you, have a nice afternoon…*evil laugh*” The end.
 * Horror- nominated by Sia 1**


 * 2nd Semester story ideas:**
 * Day Time Soap Opera:**

John, Sarah’s father, informed his family that he had to go on a business trip for the weekend and unfortunately miss out on Sarah’s prom. The family, sadden by the news decided to spend their last night before John left by having an official family night. They had a huge family dinner and played board games and charades late in the night. John left early in the morning and so the rest of the family went back to normal routines. Sarah was preparing for prom although she was upset her father couldn’t see her. Her boyfriend Cameron arrived punctually and they met friends for their fancy dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. Sarah and her friends had the best seats in the house. While Sarah and Cameron where in a deep conversation Sarah glanced to her left. She recognized the man in the table to left who was kissing all over the young girl. Sarah instantly knew it was her father! Sarah flabbergasted quickly took her phone out to take pictures of her father’s affair. Sarah’s feeling of betrayal ruined her prom night so she returned back home to break the news back to her mother.

The sophomore class final rafting trip arrived. Excited and energetic the students piled on the bus to make the long journey to Maupin Oregon. Upon the arrival the city of Maupin was lifeless; no single store was open. The Valley Catholic adults took no notice but little Brian did. He mentioned too many of his classmates that is seemed weird that there was no trace of life in the city. The others brushed it off because only rafting on the Deschutes really occupied their minds. The bus pulled into the camping site with no one in site. The buses left the entire crew at the camping sight. What they thought was safe ending up being the worst trip of their lives. Soon students began to disappear one by one and no one knows how and why. With the collaboration of adults and students they begin to solve the mystery to the disappearance of the city life and the students on the trip
 * Mystery:**


 * Mystery/Comedy:** At Valley Catholic, a string of thefts have left the school paralyzed. Even the backpacks of middle school students are not safe. Yet a group of daring students seek to find who is responsible for the dastardly thefts. After questioning several teachers, the list of suspects is narrowed down to suspect: Mr. McQueen. Yet the group must prove that the beloved civil war teacher is behind such disgraceful and unconfederate-like acts. The students decide to follow the teacher for several days, hoping to catch him red handed. Yet after a week, the students have found nothing. Just when the students are about to give up, one of them sees McQueen shuffling through a middle school students backpack. The student follows McQueen, and sees the teacher deposit the money he had stolen in an old history book. “Very clever,” the student thinks, “one place no student would ever look.” The group of students then confront McQueen after school, demanding an answer for his action. McQueen breaks down, revealing that he had been saving up for college. He explained that he was still young at heart, and wanted to have the college experience once again. The group gets McQueen to return the money, and then work together to set up a fundraiser to get McQueen into college.

It is a normal day at school. However, someone hates it, and decides to sabotage the school. A group of students overhear this guy pondering what he’s going to do, and they tell the faculty but they don’t listen. The group of students decides that it is up to them to follow leads and stop this guy before he can blow up the school. They gain information through the guy’s friends, and soon learn that he is going to finish his bomb soon. They come in at night and see that him and a few other conspirators are joining in planting the bomb. There is a big battle to stop him before it’s too late.
 * __Action__**

Protagonist wakes up to an alarm, groggily hits snooze button. It’s a bright morning, birds chirp, and our main character is reluctant to get out of bed. After a moment of hesitation he gets up and goes through his morning routine. As he leaves the house, he sees his neighbor and greets him in the usual fashion. As he drives to work, he notices peaceful townsfolk going about their lives. The song on the radio is interrupted by a news bulletin and, annoyed, our hero changes the channel. Before music resumes we hear briefly, “Explosion at the George C. Romero BioLab…” At work there is a bit of a murmur about the accident as the Lab is just outside of town. As the colleagues watch the news, it becomes clear that something is wrong. Firemen are going into the facility and not coming out. (*all the news can be off camera with reaction shots*) The office manager gives the coworkers the day off due to the hysteria gripping the town. As the hero drives home he sees the same peaceful townsfolk, only now visibly different. He arrives at the house and the friendly neighbor attacks him. He wards off the attack and manages to get into the car as passers by begin to attack him. He drives out of the city for days without stopping before the car breaks down in the country. He believes he’s safe, however and gets out relaxing a bit. He looks out over the landscape and sees a shape moving towards him. It appears to be a person moving towards him. He blinks and squints to see who or what it is and notices it’s being followed by many more shapes. He’s being followed. He turns to run with a look of panic on his face. The End.
 * Zombie: nominated by Billy**

Tired of being pushed around, when the geeks get booted from the courtyard it becomes war. geeks vs jocks in one knockdown drag out battle for the right to use the courtyard at lunch, weapons include rubber chickens, assorted nerf weaponry various sports stuff and TI calculators and slide rules, or some kind of extremely complicated deathray. Geeks win relegating the jocks to the funny smell of the Chem Lab forever!!! School is going on normally. However, soon the biology students start dissecting things. Overnight, one of the things they are dissecting turns out to be alive and leaves the room through the vents and hides. The next few days, people hear strange noises while they are taking tests and stuff. All of the sudden, in one of Mrs. Durbins small prayer classes at the end of the day, it bursts through the ceiling and attacks the students, and they die. No one knows. But they are not dead. The creature infests the bodies and they become zombies. At night, they start wandering around going uughhehdh, and stuff, and they turn the janitors into zombies. The next day, they hide and are able to turn almost the entire student/faculty population into zombies, except for a small amount who were absent. The zombies all go out to the forest the next night to hide, and still, no one knows about them. The next day, the students who were gone come back and realize what has happened, so they go out to the forest to try to find and hunt down the zombies before they infect the rest of the world.
 * Action comedy**
 * __Horror/ zombie__**

The school year is half over when suddenly the teachers start disappearing one by one. At first the students are overjoyed because they have less homework. Chaos ensues and many rules are broken, especially the dress code. After two days of this, there is an odd silence in the building. A sign is posted in front of the school saying the news; the NHS leaders have taken over. NHS takes control of the classrooms and call subs to replace the missing teachers. None of the student body take the new leaders seriously until some of the more disruptive students start disappearing also. A small band of students forms to investigate the disappearances. They follow one member of NHS to a meeting and they hide and listen to the conversation. The group discovers NHS has been taking the all the people who they don’t agree with and hiding them in a classroom. After NHS leaves, one member of the group goes through the desk and finds a key. They search the school and find the classroom everyone is locked in and rescues them when NHS finds them. A battle follows and NHS is defeated. The next day, everything goes back to normal.
 * Action:**

It was late night last night for some teachers (teenager versions of the teachers). Mr. McQueen and Mr. Braun have asked Mr. Berg to come to a very important meeting in Mr. McQueen’s room. After a couple of hours wondering where he was, McQueen and Braun decide to look for him. When they get out of McQueen’s Room they find Berg dead in freshman hall, with a knife through his chest. School is called off for the next couple of days. They call in the CSI investigators of VC High. Theresa and her team get there first assignment. They interview the staff at Valley Catholic. She and her team are led to clues that Mrs. Durbin was going to be fired because there to many complaints from other teachers, students and the parents of the students that were being mistreated and being harassed. So the school was deciding to fire her on these actuations. The question the a few staff members about this new lead on Mr. Berg’s death (Mr. Withers, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Brown, and The Principles). They all give Theresa and her team answers to there questions. Mr. Seiwald, who works in the crime scene lab, finds a partial finger print on the murder weapon and Berg’s blood collected from Mrs. Durbin’s sweater proved that in fact Durbin was the murderer. Theresa’s and her team of investigators re-question Durbin. Durbin finally admits to killing Berg, so she could keep her job. Theresa and her team get a permanent job at VC and there own office after solving this crime. Thus ends the case of The Murder of Mr. Berg.
 * Murder Mystery/Drama - nominated by Theresa**
 * -CSI VALEY: The Murder of Mr. Berg**

It was a normal day at school, until something completely out of the ordinary happened. A strange portal mysteriously opens up in the gym, pulling a group of students through. On the other side, it appeared as if they had never left the gym. But, as they ventured out, they realized things were much different. Shortly after they enter this parallel universe, they come under attack by unknown, hostile forces. The students must venture and fight their way throughout the school to find a way to reopen the portal so they can return to safety.
 * Sci-Fi**


 * Crime/ Comedy**

With the absence of soda this year at Valley Catholic High school some students have started an underground soda smuggling ring. One reporter for the local paper tries to infiltrate this underground and expose it. He goes undercover as a new smuggler and gains access to the largest soda gang on campus. But all hell breaks loose when he is involved in a soda exchange gone wrong where students are hurt. He is now the prime suspect in the crime. How will he get out of this? He is torn apart about what to do, either expose his new found friends in the soda smuggling business or expose them all to prevent his arrest and prosecution.
 * Gangster: nominated by Stephen**

A dozen Valley Catholic students receive in the mail an invite at the school about a competition for $100,000 dollars. The students chosen are in desperate need of the money for college and decide to take part in the challenge. The game consists of following random hidden clues throughout the school that will lead them to the money; first one to find it takes it all. They all must escape from separate locked classrooms to start gathering clues. Any destruction of school property gets them disqualified, and that is the only rule. This exciting game suddenly turns violent as greed starts to set in. Some plan on sacrificing their opponents, who are close friends, to get their hands on the much needed money. A race for $100,000 now becomes a race for survival, yet nobody decides to step out of the challenge. It’s do or die time.
 * Action/Comedy: nominated by Nick**


 * Horror**:A college graduate named Corbin goes on a cross country drive for an inspiration for his novel. After passing an old wooden bridge in Arizona, he notices a hitchhiking man dressed in black, with a hat pulled down hiding the man’s facial profile. At first, Corbin thinks nothing of the hitchhiker and continues down the road. An hour later, Corbin sees another hitchhiker, surprisingly similar to the one he had seen just past the bridge. Being a levelheaded fellow, Corbin thinks little of it. Yet after Corbin sees the hitchhiker a third time, the former student beings to get nervous. Corbin decides all he needs is a bit of rest after driving for so long. He stops by a roadside motel and rents a room for the night. That night however, the feeling of being watched permeates the air, waking Corbin from his slumber. At first, the young man tries to shake the feeling, but eventually decides to search for the cause of his nervousness. A single look out the window shows the root of his fears. The man in black stands merely 50 ft from his window. The man is looking up at Corbin, but the moon to the man’s back casts a shadow that hides his face. Corbin immediately runs to his car and drives off down the road, off into the desert expanse of Arizona. Now the man is appearing every few miles, striking panic into Corbin’s heart. Corbin attempts to run the man over, but somehow misses at every attempt. Corbin Finally decides to go back to the old bridge when he first saw the man, where Corbin might possible find the answers. Corbin only finds the bridge with broken railing, but no answers. When Corbin pulls into the nearby town, he asks the locals what had happened. One old man tells him that a young man, a fellow by the name of Corbin, had crashed his car into the river the day before on that bridge and had drowned. Corbin immediately steps away. He decides to wait that evening at the bridge, waiting for the dark man to reveal himself. That night, the man in black approaches him, revealing Corbin’s own face.

After 30 years teaching at valley, it seems Mr. McQueen wants to spice up his life. He decides to get a totally knew look that will attract attention of everyone. He does this because he feels old and is tired of being Santa every year. So he hires some of his students to give him the new look. They do some crazy things. They take him to spa, a hair salon, get French tips, and his knew look shocks his student. McQueen like the feminine side of himself so much that he decides to dress like a woman for the rest of his life.
 * Comedy**
 * -McQueen wants a makeover.**

There is a broken seat in the auditorium. No one knows why it broke, but no one will sit in it. One late night some students try to investigate. One student sits in the chair on a dare. There are ghostly noises and a spirit is in the chair, then the spirit takes over the kid and all kinds of badness ensues.
 * Horror**


 * Horror:**Students are mysteriously disappearing on the way out to the gravel parking lot after school. After a few days the students would show up again, but they would act totally different, almost as if they were under the influence of something. Three brave protagonists decide to uncover the truth about what is happening. They set up a video camera to see what is going on. The next day they watch the video and are scared to find out that someone is kidnapping the students. So they decide to take it upon themselves to stop the person committing the crime. So the next day the confront the crime-doer and have a clash with him/her. They find out the students have been drugged and that after a while it wears off, but no one will remember.


 * Action**Secret Agent…has been put on a mission to North Korea. His mission is to go to North Korea and stop there launch of nuclear weapons on the US. With his side kick they go through a series of obstacles in order to get to the base where the missiles are being held. The Korean leader Kim Jung Il knows about Americas plan to send a spy into the country, so he sends a secret team to get rid of the Secret Agent. In the end the Secret agent kills all the Korean Hench men and saves the US.

Ghost in the girl’s bathroom!!! J A student is at school late one night after a sports practice, and calls her friends cell phone in a panic. She says she saw a dead girl in the school bathroom. Her friends are convinced she imagined it until one day they are looking through old yearbooks (because they are in yearbook class) and the same girl gasps! She says that she recognizes the dead girl from the bathroom in one of the old class photos. They investigate and find out that that student (who would have graduated ten years ago) went missing one week before graduation. They ask all the teachers about what happened and slowing being to suspect that one teacher, who the girl had always played annoying pranks on, eventually snapped and killed her, in that very bathroom where the current student had seen the body. They go there after school one night to look for evidence but the suspected murder sneaks up on then and is about to attack, when Mrs. Joyaux shows up and saves the day by knocking him out from behind.
 * Horror:**

Group of teenagers go to a beach house for spring break thinking that they will have the time of there life. Once they arrive at the beach house one of the teenagers discovers a secret passage in the basement of the beach house. Its actually a torture room where john Brown(the pervious owner who died in the house by suicide) would kidnap people and kill them. One of the neighbors come by and tells the students that the place is haunted and they should have never come. The teens ignore the signs and face the consequences. A series of events occurs and some get killed off. In the end few get out alive.
 * Horror**

Everyone thought an overnight retreat at valley was a great idea. Until a student is found dead in his sleeping bag. From an arrow! While the investigation is under way, students go missing in increasing numbers. After finding more arrows and other miscellaneous objects are found, a group of students decides to research the events on their own (because that’s what all stupid teenagers do in horror films). The night ends in the teens almost being eaten by what appears to be zombie Native Americans. After more research, the teens discover that the nuns actually battled Indians for control of these lands, and that the gym is built over an Indian graveyard. Now they must find a way to appease the spirits before the school is lost to a zombie invasion.
 * Horror: nominated by Alan**

Students in video production class enjoy watching each other’s films in class. One day Mrs. Cassinelli shows a strange video that shows their video class watching a video and one of the students suddenly falls off his chair in class - everyone laughs while watching the film. The strange thing is – that five minutes later – the exact thing that happened in the movie actually happens. The students are stunned – what just happened? The next day the students ask to more of the film, but this time the movie shows a student leaving class and then being dragged into the bathroom. The students look around and realize that one student had asked to go to the bathroom and has not returned yet. Someone goes to look for him – and sure enough – they find him unconscious on the bathroom floor. The next day, the students are very nervous to watch the film – they wonder if this film can predict the future – or is Mrs. Cassinelli crazy. The film that day shows a student choking on his food at lunch. They leave class and run to the cafeteria – but its too late – a student is dead. That night the students decide to solve the mystery. They break into Room 209 and hack into Mrs. C’s computer. The next day they have strange smiles on their faces when she begins the movie. You see a look of horror on her face when she realizes that the students edited the film and she dies in the film. Revenge is sweet.
 * Mystery**

Everything seems fine, until random students turn into zombies. Even worse, if someone looks into the eyes of one of these zombies, they turn into a zombie as well. Eventually, it is discovered that certain cafeteria food is the cause of this outbreak. But so many students have turned to zombies, the ones who are still alive have to find a way to escape the school since they are now trapped inside.
 * Horror**

Innes/ Lommen A sequel to Mr. Inneses first day of school and Mr. Lommens triumph the second time. After Mr. Lommens embarrassing failure to capture any bad guy on Mr. Innes first day of school he receives another chance. Once again code blue was called, this time he wasn’t as anxious as the previous time. Again, the bad guy is supposedly ran through the forest. Lommen walks to the forest, not as excited this time, and begins to look through the bushes and trees. This time it isn’t what Lommen expected at all! While looking through the bushes the actual bad guy grabs him from behind! The rest of the movie is a search to find Mr. Lommen before it is too late! Mr. Innes, the sister who was out on her lawn mower and the students from Mr. Lommens class are all put in questioning.
 * Mystery**

A small disease starting in northern Africa has turned into a worldwide pandemic. After school one day, with only a few students left, they get word that the disease has reached Oregon. Thousands of people are dying every hour. The students know they must stay inside the school know it is safe. Suddenly a note is found in the school that a large amount of liquid carrying the disease is set in the school, and set up to release the disease at 5:00 pm, which is an hour from when they read the note. They must find where it is stored before they catch the disease and die.
 * Action: nominated by Mike**

It’s a Friday afternoon at Valley and many students have gone home. A group of students remain behind to work on a digital video project. Everything is going fine until the students start hearing crying coming from a classroom. When they look in the classroom where the cries came from, nobody is found. The group shrugs this off and continues filming. By the time they finish, it is dark outside. They decide to sneak into the library to upload their footage. As the film appears on the computer screen, they see a figure that wasn’t there when they were filming. At that point, the lights go out and someone screams. Someone pulls out their cell phone to use the light and discovers that one person is missing. They decide to search the school and they see a figure at the end of the hall and they begin to chase it. They catch up to the person and discover that the person who disappeared in the library is the person who they chased. This person was the cause of the “haunting.”
 * Mystery:**

After witnessing a random family member’s death, a blind martial artist must search for justice in communist Russia. After beating random red army ninjas, Kung Fu Hank learns that stalin, after secretly training under Genghis khan, has learned kung fu, and killed his father. And his dog. Twice. That sucks.
 * Action:**

High school love triangle: Joe wants to ask Sue to the prom but he accidentally slips the note into the wrong locker. He also forgets to sign the note, so the girl who ends up with the note, Sarah, assumes that it is from a guy named Bob. Bob however turns out to like Sue, asks her to prom in person, and she accepts. Another named Fred saw Joe slip to prom invitation into Sarah’s locker and tells her that he knows who the note is from, without bothering to clarify that the person is Bob, Sarah asks Fred if he could let the guy know that she would love to go to prom with him. Joe and Sarah continue to correspond through Fred, unaware that they are actually sending messages to the wrong people, and plan to meet at a restaurant before hand. When they both show up and realize what has happened they are both completely embarrassed but end up having a great time at prom together.
 * Romantic Comedy: (Chick flick)**


 * Parody of Modern Film/Noir:** High school kid tries to solve the mystery about who’s responsible for the disappearance of the soda machines. Like an old Bogart detective film, he interviews people with lots of soliloquy and asides to the camera (i.e., //she blew in like a tornado in Kansas and I knew she was trouble.//) He menacingly interrogates people who would have no idea what happened to them. Hijinks ensue such as, “Well, I don’t really drink soda…” to which the protagonist responds, “BAHA!” or “EUREKA!” Or… “VOILA!” Eventually he gets to French’s office, the final boss. Who clearly explains why the soda is gone, thus solving the problem succinctly and without incident. The detective scours the halls for another menial crime to investigate.

VC Senior Retreat Valley Catholic around twelve o’clock at night is a scary concept. At the senior retreat one person leaved their camera in the locker. He/she goes to get it (with asking M. Johnson) and they never come back. The rest of the retreat turns into finding different clues to solve the mystery of what happened to the missing retreatant. From finding foot prints and spilled goldfish—the senior class will come together to find the person.
 * Mystery**


 * 1st Semester story ideas:**

The Ring, Grudge, Blair Witch Project, mix/spoof [It’s supposed to actually be scary] Character[s]:A tired average student living a pretty normal life. Plot: A new school year starts and the student signs up for a locker. The locker happens to be next to the empty lockers which never open. One day, the student isn’t able to be picked up from school. Sitting by their locker waiting, the lights flash and the school temporarily shuts down. It’s rainy outside and overcast so it’s dark. There is nobody left b/c all sports practices have been canceled and Mr. Jinadasa is taking his day off. Walking to the office, the student finds out that Mrs. Joyeaux is missing. The doors to the front, side, and any other door that leads to the outside of the school is mysteriously locked. Something lurks in the dark. The only light is one from the cafeteria. Cell phone service is gone. The student anxiously waits in the cafeteria and there happens to be a TV there. As like the ring, the TV goes into static mode, but instead of the girl from the ring, Paul Hewitt (from physics videos) pops up. Something dark slams into the glass and runs off. The lights in the cafeteria also go off. The frightened student rushes to the office where Mrs. Joyeaux is. She has her back to the student. Panicking, the student frivolously questions and has an emotional breakdown. The lights go out and Mrs. Joyeaux turns around and says [with a low eerie voice, possibly voiced-over by somebody else. Also, there is a light shining from her face, like a flashlight under her chin, making her face glow with scary-ness…], “thank you, have a nice afternoon…*evil laugh*” The end.
 * Horror- nominated by Sia**

Freshman vs. Senior Freshman and senior rivalry. Different shots of a freshman and a senior [glaring in the hallways, pushing to get to the lunch line on pizza day, stealing semi dates…etc. each person has a “gang” of their posse with them at all times] One day, walking down the empty halls, the freshman and senior meet [out from behind each student, the gang follows pursuit in a slow motion backing up their leader.] They disperse and being fighting throughout the school in paintball action style. At the end they find the freshman and senior peacefully together eating breakfast burritos and all is well.
 * Adventure/gangster/action-**

MUSICAL COMEDY: Comedy about someone dreaming in class and what it would be like if they took over the school. That where the musical comes in. Everyone would have freedom to do whatever they want, but eventually the school goes into chaos. The person wakes up screaming with the teacher standing over his or her.

COMEDY: about kid who’s gay goes all wrong until he comes across the janitor’s keys. He tells his friends and they decide to raid the school after everyone leaves. There are scences about kids stuffing their faces full of cafeteria food, playing on the computer, changing grades, sabotaging everyone’s lockers, talking or playing music over the intercom. Some are hacking into the school’s system and changing grades. Riding the elevator all they want and changing the when the bell schedule. They eventually pass out. They loose the keys. Cut to the next day when the teachers find them sprawled out across the floor with chocolate and junk all over their faces.

Mystery/action drama: Bobby has lost his assignment which is due after lost. He and his friends try to track down his assignment by looking in the places he was previously in. It turns out that his evil twin took his assignment. Now his evil twin is running over the school getting Bobby in trouble, but Bobby has no clue about it. He doesn’t even know that he has an evil twin Will Bobby discover that he has an evil twin before it is too late?

Aliens are taking over Valley Catholic and masquerading as students and teachers. Three young students must brave a school taken over by monsters in order to rescue their friends and save their school and the rest of the world from annihilation. In this Science Fiction thriller movie, watch as they must search the school for their lost friends and avoid the aliens at all cost in order to build up a force strong enough to overtake them. With three other people, they face off the four alien overlords and are triumphant.
 * Science Fiction:**

Science Fiction: A man bent on meeting new people decides to build a space ship. He gets together enthusiasts and they discover a new method of fuel harvesting, but are stopped by the government. They seek out answers and find out that the government stopped them to cover up alien life that had come to the planet years ago, and are now living on the moon.

Two rival gangs get involved in a shoot out over a simple game of RPS gone wrong. The bosses of the gangs realize the problem and run to save their guy before they all die. They arrive in the midst of the fight and everyone stops. Surrounding the 2 leaders they demand they fight to the death. The two leaders look at each other and create a plan. They pull a fast one and end up beating up the entire mob.
 * Gangster warfare**

On the long Christmas break, the seniors at Valley are locked in the school. None of the doors can be opened. They cannot go into the courtyard either. There are only few amount of food in the kitchen of the cafeteria. The glass are unbreakable. There are no keys or phones to be found. The seniors need to figure out how to survive. Each disagree on many things and they start fighting. Suddenly the light in the whole school goes out. They cannot find any switches. Only light source becomes their cell phones. Many accidents occur. After two weeks, someone comes in to the school and turns the light on and smiles. Few people who are left looks at the person and attack the person in shock.
 * Mystery**

Three friends go into a forest and witness a murder. They struggle with if they should tell the police or not. As they are discussing what they should do outside of the forest one of the murderers over hears what they are talking about and gets his buds and they decide to follow the friends and see what they do. As soon as it seems like they are heading to the police station a car chase happens. The car chase ends up going to the mall and they keep chasing them in there. They split up in the mall to lose them the two dudes go one war and Cindy goes the other. When they finally catch the dudes it’s in a big open field and a fist fight happens. The dudes end up winning but they don’t know where Cindy is the movie ends in a cliff hanger of where Cindy is.
 * Action**

It’s a normal night at Baskin Robbins when a man walks in and orders a double scoop in a waffle cone. The worker starts scooping and finds a hair in the ice cream. He digs further into the ice cream and finds a head of a dead person. Then he looks into the next tub and finds the hand. The worker decides to go and investigate Alpenrose Dairy and see what is going on.

A school week had gotten off to a normal start, and the Monday was just like any other…until 3rd period. As the school waited patiently for the morning announcements, the bell didn’t ring, in fact, none of the clocks worked at all. Time had stopped! The students began to panic, and teachers didn’t know what to do. It was up to someone to restore time and save the school.

After a piece of legislation is passed to eliminate public schools, a noble physics teacher, bent on saving all private schools, discovers a way to turn normal humans into superheroes. He builds a rag-tag band of teachers from different persuasions to help him save the world from evil politicians. He gives powers based on each teachers’ unique skills and they set out to save the schools. They battle their way to the creator of the legislation who turns out to be the principal from the teachers’ original school, who has stolen his own super powers. They take his powers away and seal him in Mr. Jinadasa’s office, to never be found again.

Valley Catholic. Normal school, about student body of about 500 students. Nothing too out of the ordinary. What you don’t know is that among the student – teacher population, there is someone out of the ordinary. Mr. Lommen. We all know him as the short little man running from class to class during the day…but at night, he is not the same. In fact, he is an undercover superhero. Living his normal life du ring the day, but fighting crime at night, no one suspects his secret lifestyle until one day when a group of students discover clues about their teacher that lead them to suspect his clandestine behavior.

Young pan wan chi has his golden panda stolen from him by a rival city. He devotes his child hood to training in the martial arts for the day he must return to retake his property. He goes to find the men who took the golden panda, and catches a lead. He beats up everyone he encounters until he finally captures his golden panda again.
 * old Japanese dubbed karate**

Joe offends Bob publicly, and then Bob challenges Joe to a sudden-death showdown at high noon with only their bare hands as weapons. They both show up, and attempt to defeat the other for their honor and pride. However, Joe is so desperate to win that he cheats and brings along a pair of scissors to insure his victory (oh no!). But then, after much fighting and against all odds, Bob defeats Joe with his awesome super moves.
 * Silent Kung-Fu Movie**

One movie could be a group of soldiers making a last stand against an army, such as Poland falling to the Germans. It would be a small group, could be comprised of men and women. They are slowly picked off, until the last one would die from a sniper as he would prepare to go out in a blaze of glory. This would be themed more as a sad war movie.
 * War Tragedy**

The scene starts off with two or three teenagers dragging a body into the woods. It’s obvious by their discussion that they killed the person but we don’t see who. Then we flash back to a few weeks early and you see the kids in school with a group of friends at school. You see a variety of scenes where the kids have run ins with a variety of people (a teacher who accuses them of cheating, the principal who heard some rumors that they were high at the football game, they were bullying some classmates). You hear them talking about getting revenge. You then show scenes that hint at the person (but it still is confusing). Finally you see them commit the crime and find out the reason: they discover a classmate is actually an undercover narcotics agent who was about to turn them in. Did they commit the perfect crime???
 * Crime/Drama**

Juniors verses Seniors to see who wants to take over the school. They play tricks on each other such as putting things in each others lockers. The one day someone takes it too far. The Seniors kidnap one of the Juniors and take them hostage. From there the problems only escalate. People go missing and the school doesn’t know how to stop it. The teachers decide it’s time to step in, being led by Mr. McQueen. All goes well until one day McQueen doesn’t show up at school.

Derrick Shawn is your average cubicle worker in a multimillion dollar company. But for some freak coincidence, his sister’s the boss, his dad’s the janitor. His mom is his co-worker. And relatives are all over the place. Watch as he tries to make in the real world…in his world.
 * Comedic Drama:**

This would be set in the 1920’s gang era in Chicago. There should be two competing gangs. It would be a competition for business, and pretty much taking over the city. The Police could show up, but it would show their corruption at the time by having the mobs have the police in their pocket. The hero could be a good cop, and it is his personal mission to take down the mobs. He successfully does this, and he is the hero of the city.
 * Crime/Gangster**


 * Horror :** Visit to the woods behind Valley. There has always been rumors about the forest. So many things, but one thing for sure is that it is forbidden. Few students form a secret group trying to figure out what lies in the forest. They choose the long Christmas break to find out. They prepare all the camping equipment, flashlights, cell phones, ribbons to mark the trees to see which path they took, etc. As soon as they enter the forest, their cell phones go off by itself. They mark each tree with ribbons but they seem to be circling in the same place. What’s worse is they paired up and stayed where they were, and the other half went on tying trees with ribbons. The other half met up with the staying group and found that the ribbons in front disappeared. The groups starts freaking out and decides that this is no joke. They decide to leave the forest. They try to take other road but it keeps going in circles. No matter what direction they take, they keep coming back the same place. So they try to throw stones outside the forest because they know the forest is very tiny. So they keep throwing things and shouting and screaming. But no one answers. All the surrounding is very silent. Suddenly, one screams with panic and all find a friend on the ground. The friend passed out. As it gets darker, the panic rises and everyone is scared to death. All they do is scream.

Two Gangster bosses in the school decide to make escalating pranks on the other group. This all started because one boss pulled a humiliating prank on their rival boss for personal revenge and superiority in the school. Then, naturally, they escalate into ridiculous pranks including falling buckets of water, switching the locker numbers (these guys are not smart), whoopee cushions, and to top it all off water balloons and squirt guns for their final fight. In the end, they are both apprehended by The Teachers, who have formed a gang of their own.
 * Crime/Gangster**

A man is buying groceries when a gang comes into the store with guns. In his effort to stay alive, he pulls out a gun and accidentally shoots the shop keeper. The gang flees in fright as does the man. The police officer suspects somebody in the gang until the truth comes out that it is the man’s gun that fired the bullet. But because he didn’t come out and confess, he must go to jail.
 * Accidental Murder:**

Late night, Valley Catholic, Brant and Nick are just on their way out of a late night of scene painting and assembly for the next play. Sounds and thumps are heard from upstairs so they attempt to make a run for their car. Door locked, lights off. They think there are only two people in the building, themselves. They are about to be proven horribly wrong. They don’t know that evil is afoot and about to hunt them down. They are followed all over the school by a dark figure and they run throughout the school. Finally the follower trips down the stairs and reveals its identity; Wes just looking for a good laugh.
 * Horror:**

What’s real and what’s not? Lauren miller falls into a deep sleep and dreams the greatest of dreams. But as the plot thickens she becomes aware that something isn’t right. Is she really in a dream? Why does everything seem so real? And why does she feel like she’s been in here before…watch as she finds the truth about the world around her, and most importantly. Herself
 * Sci-Fi**

A kid wakes up one day to discover that by clapping his hands twice, he goes invisible. As he gets to school, he realizes that he has a bunch of make up tests to take, but hasn’t studied. He claps his hands and becomes invisible. He follows his teacher into the faculty lounge and gets the answers to the test. He leaves the teacher’s lounge, becomes visible, and goes to take his test. Later on, he has to present a huge project for biology, but hasn’t done a thorough job. He becomes invisible and walks into class to hear the teacher say that someone else has to present because he isn’t there. As he goes about the day, he discovers how to use being invisible to his advantage, and to his disadvantage, when his powers are reveled.

There could be an unseen spirit at Valley, haunting the halls. It could kill people, and make obvious signs of its presence. These would be comical. I could also posses people, but in a very fake way. One day the whole school could disappear, with just a group of students left to figure out what is really happening. They do, with the spirit trying to stop them. In the end, they figure out its weakness and destroy it.
 * Horror/Comedy**

A guy walks into a bar. He is met by a nun, a priest, and a Buddhist monk. They continue to fight with a baby seal, John Kerry, and another priest. Bewildered the guy backs away and bumps into a dwarf, Santa Clause, and another dwarf, though that one is naked. Realizing he’s stumbled into the apex of clichéd jokes, he runs out of the bar and steps on a chicken crossing the road.

Prom is just around the corner, and Won-Young feels confident he has a date for sure. Melissa has kept to herself for weeks in hopes of avoiding the “wrong asker”. Luckily for Won, he is the right asker, but when he tries to find Melissa after school to drop the question, Melissa is no where to be found. Everyone is a suspect to her disappearance, Nick, Adam, Mr. Braun. Won searches and searches and interrogates suspects along the way. He gives up for the day and makes his way to the gravel where his car is parked. Melissa has been waiting at Won’s car to ask him herself! Aw!
 * Mystery:**

It was a normal day at Valley Catholic, and then a string of wallet thefts throws the students into paranoia. Different scenes are shown where people are locking their wallets up with massive locks and bike chains, but the crime spree still continues. There is a bunch of hubbub, and then Joe and Bob decide to do something about all of this and investigate, getting reports from different individuals and teachers. They gradually get clues that lead to more and more information, and they eventually track down the evil crime syndicate that is running underground in VC. They track down the villains to their evil secret crime base in some back room, and apprehend all of them using their awesome fighting skills. The day is saved!
 * Detective:**

No sound throughout the movie. Everybody is dieing in valley by an unknown cause. Later, we find out a disease is killing everyone and it is spread by little bugs that can only be seen through a microscope. Miss V finds a way to kill the bugs but cannot distribute the “antidote” to lots of people in time.
 * Silent Horror:**

Peter is on a quest to find his long-lost twin sister separated at birth. Him, his best friends Roseanne and Bobby, and his wife Jennifer set out on the quest. They search first in the orphanage that their mother left his sister in. That leads them to three different foster homes, the last one seeming familiar to Roseanne and that one is very close to where they live at the moment. At this one, they find out that it is Roseanne that is Peter’s long-lost twin sister. There is much rejoicing.
 * Drama:**

A group of students returning from a field trip are forced to pull their bus over in the wilderness along a not to traveled highway. They are out of cell phone range, so they decide to kip in the forest for the night and while they are sleeping their bus is stolen with the chaperones on board. They are forced to adapt to living in the wilderness. Soon, the group breaks in two. The groups get angry at each other over food, and fight. Only three survive. After one of them gets jealous about food again, he kills the other two. When he realizes that he can’t survive alone, he commits suicide. The next day a group of rescuers come looking for them.

Valley Catholic has gone western. Everyone is a cowboy or cowgirl. Everyone has guns and there are duels everywhere. The conflict is that somebody is trying to change the “town” into a more industrialized area. Some people don’t want the town to change, some people do. Eventually, almost everyone dies. In the end, the town doesn’t change and Valley Catholic western is preserved.
 * Western:**

A young boy is forced to move into a creepy old house in the country. As he meets new people in the town no one will ever go to his house. After awhile he discovers a family was killed in the house by one of the sons but no one knows what happened to the son and it’s rumored he hid himself in the attic of the house but no one has ever checked. The boy decides he has to let everyone see no one is living in his attic so he goes up there with a few of his friends. They decide to stay the night up in the attic and as soon as it starts to get dark they decide to explore the depths of the attic. As they go along they find more and more things that seem to be like someone is living up there leading to them finding a hidden door in the attic which they go in and find the evil boy who is much older now. He kills three of the friends and it ends up just being the two boys fighting to win the house and their lives. The murderer wins the fight but doesn’t kill the boy he then takes the boy down out of the attic. As he is moving the body the boy wakes up and finds a stick on the ground then kills the murderer and gets his life back.
 * Horror**

A group of friends stay late at school one night trying to finish a chemistry lab. They finally finish around midnight and are making their way home, but find out that the doors have locked for the night, and are trapped in the school. At first the problem doesn’t sound too bad, you have bathroom, food in the cafeteria and can sleep on the couch in Mr. McQueen’s room. But then late at night one of the kids goes off to bathroom and never returns. Then another goes out looking for them, also to never return. From there they decide to set out and hunt for the stranger among them.

Zombies are running amok in Oregon and it’s up to Valley Catholic and it’s motley crew of survivors. These include the noble football player, the flamboyant soccer player, and the strong-willed woman rugby player and then a small group of disposables: Person, Guy, and Somebody (they play tennis). They’ll blast, kick, and chainsaw their way through the evil horde and maybe survive.


 * Biography/Bad Dubbed Comedy:**

Won Young’s life with “bad dubbing” and comedy. Starts with his birth and loosely follows main events of Won’s life. The beginning of his martial arts training, first girlfriend, etc. There are many things we could do with this idea, for example we could show what Won does during his life after Valley, his job, making a family, his death.

Valley Catholic offers a unique class, badminton. The class became the most sought after elective and weekend competitions started taking place on weekends, students and the staff too. To everyone’s surprise, the German exchange students are secretly badminton champs and one day, they reveal their secret by dominating in badminton class. An outright battle takes place between the champs and the students in this great elective. Who comes out on top? In the end, a final smash by the champs end the game. The champs offer to help teach their skills and everyone at Valley becomes amazing badminton players
 * Action:**

George Washington fights hordes of Ninjas. No, seriously. He’s full of patriotic quips such as, “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder,” as he chops an opponent’s head cleeeean off. Then he’ll chop down a cherry tree and lie about it. After that, he’ll write the constitution, carve out the grand canyon, and stop the diabolical British plan to fill the white house with crumpets.
 * Action-Comedy:**

Four people, two girls and two boys, who are childhood friends, reunite at a high school. The story is about just following them around as they go through daily routines of their school from lunch to math class.
 * Musical**

Nadine discovers a hole in the Berlin wall. She finds a peculiar peace of paper that turns out to be a note. Shamus is his name and as notes are passed back and fourth, They talk about what its like on each side of the wall. History, friends, family, life…They develop an unbreakable connection and fall in love. And as time turns, tensions rise and years go by as two lovers go through trail and tribulation. And when the wall falls they finally have a chance to touch. Something they have been waiting for for many years.
 * Historical Drama**


 * Mystery** – Everyone is around the long dinner table at the Rich Man’s house. The storm makes the power in the house go out and when the emergency candles are lit the Rich Man is found dead. The rest of the movie is filled with treachery and death as the other people try to find the Rich Man’s killer.


 * Adventure –** A cool high school kid fights for student rights. The kids are being forced to eat what the school wants them to eat and take classes required by the school. When the kid is threatened with expulsion he sways the entire student body to his cause. The school expels him but then the rest of the students threaten the school by saying they will leave the school unless he is allowed to come back. In the end the school is closed and with the help of the other kids the cool kid buys the building and starts his own school where the students rule.


 * Drama –** A normal man comes home to find a woman in his house that isn’t his wife. When he questions her she says she has been married to him for 10 years. The man looks around his apartment and he sees pictures of him and this new woman that he swears had previously showed his real wife. The rest of the movie follows the man as he tries to find his real wife as his memory of her is slowing fading away…


 * Horror:** Students break into their high school at night to pull a harmless prank. They find that the school locks and people start disappearing; however, they don’t know what is taking them. They find out that the teachers are just in on it and just trying to scare them.


 * Crime:** Bank robbers dress like everyone else and strap bombs to everyone in the bank. They make everyone leave at the same time and threaten to blow each other up. The cops won’t have a choice but to let everyone go. At the end, it reveals that the police chief is in on the plan. They get away with it in the end


 * Biography:** A biography on the Beatles. How they all got started in music and where they learn. It will tell the challenges and hard times of the band, as well as how they got through it. From their beginning to the end of the band. It will also follow what they are doing now.


 * Crime/gangster :** There are 3 gangster groups in a town. These three groups hate each other. One day, one member of one groups comes back hurt, nearly dead. Then the next day, a member from another groups disappears. Each day, one disappears or comes back hurt. But the ones who came back can never remember what happened the day before. No one can remember who they saw. So each groups has no clue of who is doing this. They just make assumptions and hate the other two groups more. The tension increases as day passes. It remains a mystery still to everyone.