PITCH

By Amanda Wheeler

RESEARCH

CHRONICLE: A science-fiction film released in 2012 which is presented as

found footage from a group of average teenagers who came across some kind

of ball of light which left them with powers to move, but for one of the friends

the power became a chance to dominate and used this powers to go against

good.

HOT FUZZ: A action film released in 2007 which is an shown as a social

realist film but with use of action cinematography and editing. It is about a

police man who gets assigned to a town which has a low crime rate and he

figure out that the crime rate is so low because the accident rate is so high

and then solves a massive scheme with his new partner in crime

PLOT ONE

A group of three college friends go out on a group trip with

their art class to travel Sweden forests for nature printing

where they find themselves waking up in a wooden hut deep in

the forest, legs and arms bound. They had been kidnapped and

held captive by hidden woodsmen where they grow drugs. For

the next 48 hours they will need to push their bodies to limits

they never thought existed to get away from these psychopaths

and back to safety even if that means they get someone else's

blood on their hands.

PLOT TWO

Three college friends go out to town at the weekend to visit a parade, at

first everything is normal like it always has been but all of a sudden

something attacks. A massive bomb goes off in the big crowd which sent

the survivors into hysterics as they try and run for safety, but only to find

that they had been boxed in by a troop of guys in black masks. It was

terrorist attack and they had been captured. The three friends start a

video log of everything that is happening on their iPhones incase they

don’t make it, in hope that this video will be found and these men can be

captured. Everyone was tortured and fearful and although no one made it

out alive the video was found.

SOUNDTRACK IDEAS

For my soundtrack I will be using garage band to create sound effects that

are aimed to be ambient to reflect the social realist side to my genre to give

it that everyday normal effect such as if I happen to be in a city, crowds of

people nattering and car driving past and beeping horns. To reflect my

action side to the genre I will be aiming my score towards those scenes

which I will use to cause tension between characters for the audience to

feel and I will use sound effects such as guns, explosions, punching, all to

emphasis action within the film. I think the two genres will merge together

well when using the sound because I feel there will be a clear distinction to

the audience about which parts are aimed at which genre.

LOCATION

A house party for the opening scene

An open ground for the dead body

Woodland space for a chase

An abandoned building or wreckage for the hiding

scenes

Always crowded locations to show the suffocation

and torment of what has happened and the constant

need to hide from it

TYPICAL DIRECTION

Cinematography:

Begin with an establishing shot to show the vastness of where

they are and suggests it’s like a maze they cannot escape.

Medium close-ups of characters to emphasis the emotions the

characters are feeling

Medium long shots to show the audience the body language of the

characters which will enhance the feeling of anticipation and the

fear they have of being found

Long shots to show the side of the surroundings compared to the

characters making them look trapped and vulnerable as they will

seem small (for example in the forest scene)

HOW YOU WILL L INK IT TO YOUR ANCILLARY

For the magazine we will have to include the three main

characters looking like students but with a medium close up on

one perhaps to show the facial expressions which may hint

towards the hybrid genre. The background for the poster will

look quite big to make them look vulnerable suggesting that

they are trapped in their latest events and can’t escape from it

and the whole point of making them look vulnerable and

possible in the position of running will hint towards the genres.

WHAT I NEED TO ACHIEVE WHAT I WANT TO

We will need to all work together as a team and express and agree on

our ideas to come up with the most suited plan for our chosen genres and

narrative. We will have to assign ourselves to a specific element within

the trailer (cinematography, sound, mise-en-scene, editing) so we are all

sharing duties equally and putting in as much effort needed therefore this

will let us focus on individual tasks to get them to their highest potential.

On the poster and magazine cover that we are working on alone I will

have to choose a colour scheme that is suitable, take appropriate pictures

for the genre, choose relevant locations that suit the genre and guide the

models to fit in with the narrative.