American Horror Story Character Development

As I said in my powerpoint presentation (below) I have chosen to do American Horror Story Series 1 (The Haunted House). Because my characters were too similar to characters already in AHS I have come up with a complete new concept. I chose to do American Horror Story because the whole show is very broad and you can be quite artistic with your ideas - however much I would love to do that I think I am going to stick with the more realistic approach.

My new idea still includes using Claudia and Quentin however, rather than being the main occupants of the house I have chosen them to be previous occupants of the house, ones that died in there and continue to haunt the current family that is living there right now. Concentrating on Claudia and Quentin's background, the story goes like this - As the brief states, Claudia is very interested in horror films, I specifically chose the Saw series. The reason being because she has an odd interest into torture techniques and wants to try some out. She tries these techniques out on her 'imaginary' (who the audiences assumes is real) boyfriend, one of her techniques (neck torture) actually kills him off. Despite her grief and sadness, Quentin comes back for revenge and eventually kills her, torturing her the way she tortured him. She is hung from her hands and her neck until she slowly dies. Not only is she in a lot of physical pain she is also mentally and emotionally hurt as she wonders why her boyfriend could do such a horrible thing.

I have to now create a new moodboard a new face chart and try and associate my word or a new word with each of my characters.

Below is the moodboard that relates to my idea as as a whole.