Research and Planning - Planning the film

After discussing the plan with my partner, Hannah, we have come up with this unique idea and film title.

The proposed house

Our film will be called "Purgatory",  we feel is a nice title for our film, suiting the genre and the story line, as it reflects our characters inner feelings.
As our film genre is horror/supernatural/haunting, we have decided that our main character is going to be a helpless female, named Anna, who lives alone in a small cottage near a churchyard. She's unpacking boxes when she hears a funny noise and finds herself alone in a room with something evil. We will be using a lot of close up shots to allow the audience to really connect with the female character. The start of the film will mostly be montages and spooky shots using lots of canted angles and colour change, along with speed changes and darkening. 

At the moment we have a potential female lead, Anya, that hopefully we could cast but we are still looking into it.

We have found a suitable location. We want the set to look fairly new. The character lives alone comfortably in her own space so the house is relatively messy yet organised.

The film starts when our female character has just returned to her house, the location is right next to a grave yard, the scene will start with a montage of establishing shots of the area and graveyard.  Anna will then enter, filmed from within the house, as if someone is watching, the lights will be dark, as if it is night, the credits will then appear, the words will fade to black and the shot will reappear when Anna turns the light on, using a close up of the hand and match on action. Anna will then enter the living room and unpack a box, this scene will include match on action shots as the opens the door and POV shots as she looks at things from the box, such as family photos. The idea is that Anna has just moved out from her family home. Anna then hears a noise upstairs, she looks, gets up and goes upstairs, she will slowly and cautiously walk into a dark empty room, adding tension to the atmosphere. She walks slowly towards the door, opens it, enters and a scream is heard. The scene will end here on a cliffhanger. We will use lots of close ups, match on action shots, establishing shots, canted angles and mid-shots, accompanied by many titles with additive dissolve transitions to give a creepy effect.