the pitch

PITCH

 

 

Introduction

 

This is my PowerPoint presentation and it is about the film opening scene that I will be making. In this PowerPoint I will be talking about the pitch, about the storyline of the film, the production, narrative, locations for where my film may take place, camera styles, characters and target audience.

 

Production Company

 

As the production company would focus on social realism films, we chose to call it the Dollhouse Productions. Our film would focus on stigmatised issues, they would confront the viewers misconceptions and make them realise the truth behind certain issues.

 

Main Narrative

A young boy named Riley is casually playing with his toys, all of a sudden he begins to hear a whispering voice coming from behind him, he looks but there is nothing to be seen. Riley’s mother then begins to call him down for his dinner. However Riley does not respond to her call and gets up and begins to draw on his walls, his mother then calls again sounding a little concerned as Riley has not came down. It becomes clear something is wrong as Riley walks towards his toy tool box and pulls out a knife. Riley’s mother calls again this time sounding very concerned. She decides to go and see what Riley is up to. She starts walking up the stairs as Riley walks towards the door still carrying the knife. They both reach the door and his mother pushes it open finding Riley clearly possessed with big dilated eyes holding the knife. Throughout the opening scene there will be continuous whispers pulling Riley into the trap and getting into his mind.

 

Characters

 

For our horror film opening we decided on having 2 characters. We decided on having a boy and a mother, due to the fact that this was the invention we saw when researching into the genre of horror films. We would need to select 2 characters around the age of 6-10 years old and an adult around 30+, but at this moment, there are 2 available people, which are Sophie’s brother and herself to be the actors. Even though Sophie is only 17 years old, she’s willing to be in the film, which makes everything a lot easier to film, as she knows what she has to do and we don’t need to waste time explaining anything, as we planned it ourselves. We think that these 2 characters are the most appropriate to act in our film opening in order to appeal to the needs of our target audience.

 

Camera Styles

 

Our camera style we have chosen is very unique within the film industry. We have chosen to use the handheld (POV) camera style, allowing the audience to become closer to our main character and to help feel the struggles our main character is going through, as such, seeing it through his eyes. Breaking of the ‘fourth wall’ allows our audience to feel more involved. This style also increases the verisimilitude the handheld effect is often used within the thriller genre, but we have chosen to adopt this style in order to make our film original within the genre.

Another ‘style’ we’d like to use is the extreme close ups used when displaying information on computer/phone screens so the audience can feel the emotions Riley is feeling, and get the audience more involved with the narrative. These shots make our reactions and plot more realistic.

 

Our Target Audience

Insidious is a film, which is also based on possession, which is why I did a research on it because it is similar to my film. According to youGovProfies, most of insidious fans are female, aged between 25-39.

Most of the audiences have a career as an architecture and interior designer or community and social worker. They usually spend their spare times on using the Internet, doing shopping online because they find it easier to shop on-line as it is quick and easy, but even though they like to shop, they always lookout for special offers as they think it’s stressful to be in debt.

They also spend 1-5 hours per week watch television because they spend more time on social network, such as Facebook and Twitter. They spend their time on-line 36-40 hours per week.

The audience of our horror are people aged 18 and over, this is because it isn't appropriate for younger ages due to the content of strong violence, language and thriller in which people may find offensive and disturbing. We chose the certificate of 18 because we didn't have any dialogue in our film opening we didn't need to worry about bad language and there are no graphic scenes in order to be an 18.

Our horror opening involves a lot of suspicion movements such as a kid holding a knife; therefore the target audience would have to include people who enjoy tension and suspense. Additionally, the audience would be people who enjoy films that use mystery as there’s throughout. Also, the soundtrack we use is a nursery rhyme, which is usually associated with children and it, is a convention of horror.