Planning - Pitch No. 1: "Starting Over"

Title: Starting Over

Genre: Thriller

Characters: Jack Walker (main), Jenny Harrison (Journalist), Tyler Sinclaire (Gang member), Tyrell Monique (Gang Leader)

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. But one day he gets in a fight and a local journalist breaks up the fight and asks him a few questions and learns that he has memory loss and so decides to write a book about him and keep a record of his days to help him remember. However, the boy who he had a fight with, Tyler Sinclaire, was a local gang member and got his gang to try and track down jack is order to try and beat him up or even kill him. The film tells the story of Jenny and Jack trying to get Jack's memory back and the gang who are trying to track them down to kill him, but Jack can't get knocked out or he'll forget everything that has happened.

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:
Jess - Producer, Location Scout, Production Designer (set, costume and props)
Maisie - Director, Writer, Storyboard Artist (joint), Marketing
Theo - Cinematographer, Technical Director, Storyboard Artist (joint)
Michael - Editor, Sound Designer, Composer

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