Kei D.

Peñaredondo
BT 702
Game Development
04 Task Performance 1

Select a movie/film that can be adapted to a video game then determine the required items (2 items x
25 points)
For example: Avengers: Endgame – 2019 movie

Movie Details
Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Director: Tim Burton
Based on: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Release: 2016

1. Story Elements

a. Premise
 When Jacob (Asa Butterfield) discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across
time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger
deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special
powers.

b. Backstory
 As a child, Jacob Magellan Portman has been fascinated with his grandfather
Abraham's stories about surviving as a Jew during World War II, running from
man-eating monsters, and living with peculiar children in a secret home guarded
by "a wise old bird." As Jacob grows older, he begins to doubt the stories until
the arrival of his grandfather's death. Blood-strewn, exhausted, and lying in his
back garden on the outskirts of Florida Woods, Abraham's last words are a
mystery: "...find the bird in the loop on the other side of the old man's grave on
September 3, 1940 and tell them what happened." As his grandfather dies,
Jacob catches sight of a horrific monster just like the ones described in
Abraham's stories. Soon, he starts experiencing trauma and being plagued with
nightmares relating to those monsters. Believing their son to be going crazy,
Jacob's parents take him to Dr. Golan, a psychiatrist, who suggests that Jacob go
to Cairnholm, Wales, the location of his grandfather's children's home to
confront the place of his trauma. On his own, Jacob locates and explores the old
house only to find it empty and everything caked in dust. According to the local
people, the place is haunted, and a bomb had killed all its inhabitants many
years ago, on September 3, 1940.

c. Synopsis
 When his beloved grandfather leaves Jake clues to a mystery that spans
different worlds and times, he finds a magical place known as Miss Peregrine's
School for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to
know the residents and learns about their special powers - and their terrifying
 enemies. Ultimately, Jake discovers that only his own special peculiarity can
save his new friends.

d. Theme
 Coming of age, Self Confidence, Magic, Belonging, Protection, Family, Mortality,
Meaning, and Truth vs Deception.

e. Setting
 A remote island off the coast of Wales named Cairnholm, September 3, 1940

f. Plot
 Abe Portman has told stories to his grandson Jake about battling monsters and
spending his childhood at "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" at
Cairnholm, an island off the coast of Wales. The home's children and their
headmistress, Miss Alma Peregrine, possess paranormal abilities and are known
as "Peculiars". One day, Jake finds Abe dying with his eyes removed, and he tells
Jake to go to "the loop of September 3, 1943".

Following advice from Dr. Golan, Jake travels to the United Kingdom to go to
Cairnholm with his father Frank to investigate the children’s home, learning that
it was destroyed during a Luftwaffe raid. Upon entering the ruins, Jake finds
children from Abe's stories. They take him through a portal, and he emerges in
the year 1943, when the house was still intact. Miss Peregrine greets him and
explains that she belongs to a class of female Peculiars named "Ymbrynes", who
can transform into birds (in Miss Peregrine's case, a peregrine falcon) and
manipulate time. To avoid persecution for being Peculiars, she and her children
hide from the outside world in a time loop she created, accessible only to
Peculiars and set to September 3, 1943, allowing them to live the same day
repeatedly and avoid aging as long as they stay inside it.

Jake is introduced to the rest of the children, including aerokinetic Emma

Bloom, who he is attracted to. Jake learns he is also a Peculiar like his
grandfather, and can see the invisible monsters from Abe's stories, which are
called "Hollowgasts" (or "Hollows"). They are disfigured peculiar scientists who
killed an Ymbryne in a failed experiment to harvest her powers trying to achieve
immortality. Led by shapeshifter Mr. Barron, they hunt Peculiars to consume
their eyeballs, which allow them to regain visibly human form, but with milky-
white eyes, named "Wights".

A wounded Ymbryne named Miss Avocet arrives, explaining Barron assaulted

her in the January 2016 time loop at Blackpool, England, killing her children and
is trying to repeat the failed experiment using more Ymbrynes. Miss Peregrine
prepares to move out with her children and Miss Avocet, after learning from
Jake that a Hollow may be on the island in the present after sheep were killed.
Jake returns to 2016, but finding an elderly man killed by the Hollow, he goes
back to the portal to warn them the Hollow is nearby. However, he is followed
by another visitor on the island, an ornithologist who is actually Mr. Barron.
 Barron had tried to extract the location of Ms. Peregrine's loop from Abe, but
his hungry Hollow companion, Mr. Malthus (the one on the island), killed Abe
before he could do so. He then posed as Dr. Golan, encouraging Jake to go to
the island so he could lead him to the loop. Using Jake as a hostage at the
children's home, Barron forces Miss Peregrine to trap herself in bird form and
takes her to Blackpool, leaving Jake, the other children, and Miss Avocet as prey
for Malthus.

Malthus arrives and kills Miss Avocet, but Jake and the children escape just as
the Luftwaffe raid destroys the house, killing Malthus. Without Miss Peregrine
to reset it, the loop closes, leaving them stuck in 1943. Rescuing a sunken ocean
liner, they travel to Blackpool and enter its January 2016 loop, fight Barron's
Wight and Hollow allies, and rescue Miss Peregrine and other captive Ymbrynes.
Barron disguises himself as Jake, hoping to confuse the children who have come
to finish him off. But when the last remaining Hollow arrives, Jake is able to see
and avoid it. The Hollow kills Barron and is in turn killed by Jake.

Before the time loop closes, Jake says goodbye to the children as they exit and
return to their ship in 1943 while he stays in 2016, travels to Florida and relates
his adventures to Abe, who is alive and well: Barron's death in the beginning of
2016 erased his presence in Florida later on. Abe gives Jake a map of
international time loops, allowing Jake to reunite with his friends and Emma in
1943. They declare their feelings for each other and kiss. The children and Miss
Peregrine sail their own ship, seeking a happy time loop.

g. Balancing Conflict
 From the plot, … Barron had tried to extract the location of Ms. Peregrine's loop
from Abe, but his hungry Hollow companion, Mr. Malthus (the one on the
island), killed Abe before he could do so. He then posed as Dr. Golan,
encouraging Jake to go to the island so he could lead him to the loop. Using Jake
as a hostage at the children's home, Barron forces Miss Peregrine to trap herself
in bird form and takes her to Blackpool, leaving Jake, the other children, and
Miss Avocet as prey for Malthus.

Malthus arrives and kills Miss Avocet, but Jake and the children escape just as
the Luftwaffe raid destroys the house, killing Malthus. Without Miss Peregrine
to reset it, the loop closes, leaving them stuck in 1943. Rescuing a sunken ocean
liner, they travel to Blackpool and enter its January 2016 loop, fight Barron's
Wight and Hollow allies, and rescue Miss Peregrine and other captive Ymbrynes.
Barron disguises himself as Jake, hoping to confuse the children who have come
to finish him off. But when the last remaining Hollow arrives, Jake is able to see
and avoid it. The Hollow kills Barron and is in turn killed by Jake. …

h. Shifting Focus
 Time Loop exploration
 i. Suspension of Disbelief
 Time loops
 Magical Peculiar Abilities
 Unusual Creatures (Ymbrines, Hollowgasts and Wights)

j. Realism
 Real world setting - England
 Real human imagery
2. Characters
a. Hero
 Jacob Magellan Portman
b. Shadow
 Abraham Portman
c. Mentor
 Alma LeFay Peregrine
d. Ally
 Emma Bloom
e. Guardian
 Alma LeFay Peregrine
f. Trickster
 Enoch O’Connor
g. Herald
 Millard Nullings
h. Protagonist
 Jacob Magellan Portman
i. Antagonist
 Malthus
j. Transformational
 Barron
k. Mistaken
 Enoch O’Connor
l. Exaggerated
 Bronwyn Bruntley
m. Supporting Characters
 Emma Bloom
 Millard Nullings
 Bronwyn Bruntley
 Enoch O’Connor
 Olive Abroholos Elephanta
 Hugh Apiston
 Horace Somnusson
 Fiona Frauenfeld
 Claire Densmore
 Victor Bruntley
 The Twins