Writing a Film Pitch

Film Pitch

The narrative that I would hope to reveal in the opening includes a young, vulnerable girl on the way home from school. She departs from her friends as she takes a different walk, in the shot it will be a 2 shot as you will see the antagonist in the background however the audience will not think anything of it as it is a public footpath and he is only shown walking past This is effective as it will make him more recognisable to the audience and make them feel satisfied. As she puts her earphones in and walks down the the footpath in the woods the audience hear the music she is listening to adding diegetic sound. Camera shots will be varying. In this scene she is being followed by a middle aged man and the audience are shown this through an over the shoulder shot. As she goes on she discovers that she is being watched and gets even more frightened and wary and the scene carries on. She speeds up and turns back a few times, her breathes get deeper as her feet move faster. When she gets to a busy road and turns around he is not there and she sighs in relief. However, when she looks across the road she sees him standing there, a dark figure holding a plastic bag in his left hand staring directly at her. She turns around in a hurry and runs to only find he is standing right behind her. She screams as he puts the plastic bag over her head until she is eventually unconscious and is kidnapped. 

In the opening two minutes codes and conventions are followed thoroughly as we have used a teenage girl who is very vulnerable on the way home from school being stalked by a strange man and kidnapped. This links in with the dominant representation of gender as the male is the villain and the female is the victim. The setting is also in the woods at low key lighting making the genre clear to the audience. Extensive use of close ups will be used to capture the girls facial expressions of worry and the males face of determination and how neutral he is. I use the word neutral as he is calm and normal about it all due to him being twisted.

The settings will be in the woods/forest where nobody goes, it will be muddy and is on a narrow footpath which is effective as we can do a range of  long shots and medium shots. There will also be a lot of greenery and fields just to emphasise the emptiness of everything.  

The main characters will be a young girl who is known as the victim and a middle aged man who is known as the antagonist. Other characters will include the girls school friends and a woman who sees it all but doesn't help or say a thing.

Props we will contain in our film pitch will include school books and a school bag to represent that this young victim will be a school girl. We will also include earphones to help with the diegetic sound for the audience. The antagonist which is the older man will be holding a plastic bag that will shortly be placed over the victims head and a gun that is kept under his blazer.

The opening two minutes will include a range of camera shots. For example we will have a long shot of the abandoned forest to make the audience aware of the surroundings. We would then have an over the shoulder shot of the man to show the audience what he can see and will also contain and 2 shot. Medium shots will be used to recognise the victim but not make it completely obvious at the start that this man will become the antagonist. Close ups will emphasise the facial expressions of the young girl as she will be worried and also of the feet walking through the leaves. this will be effective as you will get the diegetic sounds of the leaves and wind making the shot more creepy.

The mis en scene will include low key lighting which horrors generally contain. It is will be in a forest which follows the codes and conventions of a horror genre making it clear that this is a horror movie. and This will make the opening more frightening for the audience to watch. The girl will be wearing her school girls and the antagonist will be wearing dark clothing which can connote the dark events that are about to take place.