Plotting

    Hey readers. Since I have officially chosen by genre for my film opening, horror, I have decided that it's time to solidify a plot idea. I have been inspired by my 7th-grade self's interest in tarot cards and witchcraft and decided to make my film centered around the supernatural. Considering I was made aware of tarot and witchcraft through social media, sad I know, I decided for my own film I wanted to incorporate it as a modern-day social media twist.

    The overall plot of my entire film would be centered around a social media trend (especially on TikTok) encouraging teens to try to read tarot cards and do "spells" from the internet. Teens around the world would start to buy a modern deck of tarot cards online, which is marketed to them online through collabs and tutorials. The more teens that buy these cards, the more bad things that happen to them. Some of these teens go missing, some have altered features or personalities, and parents are very worried and concerned. It seems as if the reading of the cards alters the life path of those who were read. As the film unfolds, parents and concerned citizens try to research more into this company selling the cards and find that there is a factory where all these witchcraft products are being sold. The weird thing is that the factory is running but with no workers. In the end, a concerned parent (of the girl in the opening) does her own reading in hopes of answers. She then pulls out the card death. And then the film ends there, on a cliffhanger. Is the parent going to die? Is this "trend" dead? The audience will never know. 

    In terms of my opening, I plan to focus on one girl's experience with buying and using the cards. I plan to have it start with a girl scrolling on TikTok, her feed filled with this witchcraft and tarot stuff. She has already purchased the deck off of the TikTok shop and is watching videos on how to use it. She sets up her room and gives herself a reading. As she puts her last card down, the candles blow out, and the opening ends.

    Above I have included some things I plan to incorporate into my opening (the deck of cards and the pic of the characters room) that are especially important to the plot. I plan to use this as the main setting in the opening and the cards as the main prop. Soon I'm going to develop a storyboard to help me picture everything before I start my opening, but until then, I will continue to plan and research!