Planning - Pitch - "Starting Over"

Title: Starting Over

Genre: Thriller

Characters: Jack Walker

Plot: Jack Walker is an 18 year old boy who every time he goes to sleep he forgets everything that had happened on the previous day, so every day he goes and does all these wild things because he wont be able to regret them in the morning. The film is about Jack going to an address in which he kills someone because of a text message he recieves. The opening, which is what I'll be showing is Jack waking up and realising who he is because he uses sticky notes around his house. He then uses these directions to carry something out. Once he's done this the rest of the film (which isn't shown) is the flashback of why Jack has to carry out the murder of the person at the house he's directed to go to.

Target Audience:15+ the main target audience would be older teenagers. This is because the film is about an 18 year old boy so the audience are able to relate to him and his adventures.

Micro features: 

Camerawork - Low angle and high angle shots to show the dominance between characters. Close ups to show emotion of the characters. Establishing shots to set the scene.Hand held camera work for fight scenes-makes it more realistic.

Editing-slow motion and time lapse. Text graphics. This is all used to create a suspense to build climax and get the audience engaged. Flashbacks through fade to white background-typical convention. 

Music - builds in volume and in suspense towards the end of the trailer. Stings whenever text graphics appear. Lower the music volume when there is dialogue, or voice over.

Audience Appeal: The audience appeal for this trailer will be that it takes a number of elements that make up Hollywood block busters and puts them together to make a totally unique story line that appeals to a wide range of people. The themes in this film are things that can appeal to a wide age group as well so there would be a very big audience for this film.

Influential Films: 50 first dates - this is what the based the plot round however 50 first dates is a romantic comedy therefore we wanted to change the genre.

Group Roles:
Theo - Director, Technical Director, Storyboard Artist, Location Scout, Production Designer (set, costume and props)
Michael - Editor, Cinematographer, Sound Designer, Composer