PLANNING: THE TOP LINE AND BIG QUESTION

I recently watched a short presentsation in which I saw Frank Ash who is a creative consultant talk about what audiences want to see. He has taught storytelling and creativity techniques to teams across the BBC. I learnt the top line and big question is a very important factor of identification.

My Big Question: Will the Teenagers manage to escape the mental asylum alive?

My Top Line: A group of teenagers stumble upon an opportunity that is life threatening and could haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Our Treatment

A group of young teenagers decide to visit an abandoned haunted mental asylum. Shortly after arriving they notice they made a massive mistake, as all the surrounding walls have been blocked by the spirits who live in the mental asylum and there is no way out. After searching for potential escape routes they encounter some paranormal activity and experience hallucinations, what they don't know is that the spirits that lie within the mental asylum are still alive, and kill. They use a Ouija board in order to communicate with the spirits for clues on how to escape the mental asylum, but if they get the clues wrong. They die. They must work as a team to escape, they must stick together otherwise they will be killed. They must find a way out, otherwise they will be killed by the paranormal activity that haunts the mental asylum.