Media pitch (1)

PitchBY TYLER MILLER AND CONNOR BAKER

Genre Research• After conducting research by looking at inspirations our have decided

that the best genre for a short-film is horror – this is because in such short time it’s easily doable and puts the audience on the edge of their seat – it works perfectly for our narrative.

Our narrative• An opening shot shows quite a detached mention and then follows up to

the room that the scene will be in. It then shows a man, sleeping on his bed shaking – it then shows the surrounding of his room, the window being open with the curtain flicking open – the metallic wardrobe slowly creaking due to the pressure of the wind – his bedroom door on the latch, yet is shut calmly due to the wind. The room dark, but there is some form of light coming from the external lights out outside the house. The opening title flashes up “Latch“.

• It reverts back to the man, shaking on his bed slowly zooming into his head shaking and clearly in distress – it zooms so far in as if it’s going into the man’s thoughts (this is shown through the colour change). We can see reality from a different perspective, the man believes that he’s just woke up from a weird dream, yet he suddenly feels a full force pushing him onto the bed – the last thing he checked was the time, it was 12:07.

• All of a sudden these long, dirty finger nails go deep into his torso and abdomen causing his internal and external bleeding. He launches up in his bed (this time in reality that we saw originally) with the door slightly open, as he assumed it would be (the door closed in his sleep – only the audience know this) and thinks he’s fine – the wind has stopped and the setting is calm, he looks over at the clock and it’s 12:06 – he hears his wardrobe door creak, the clock turns 12:07 and all we hear a loud scream.

Our inspiration• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fDzdDfviLI

• Lights Out is our inspiration for our short-film because both films are similar. The woman believes that she saw a figure following her within her home but she only noticed it when the lights were out.

• The ending in particular is similar because she feels safe within her bed after her real-life nightmare and then looks over to the light and there the figure is, staring at her and the lights going out. This relates considering the man had a nightmare while asleep, and this entails into reality because it’s almost as if he’s predicted what would happen.

• The reference to the title is similar too because she doesn’t feel safe with the lights out, and the man in my film feels safe because when he woke up all the surroundings were the same as when he had gone sleep therefore nothing bad could possibly happen, but he didn’t realise the door closed due to the wind.

Location• The location would be within a mansion, and then within that mansion it would be quite a big bedroom,

particularly with furniture that is in a sense vintage looking, yet the man is in his 20’s. This is because it adds to the effect that it’s detached, nobody can access it to help save the man. We also want that age because he would have just moved out on home, clearly the house he has was brought for him and looks like he could have his parents to leach off of – his parents aren’t there for his darkest moment. The location would be in Westonzoyland due to a family member owning a mansion-like house.

Characters• There is only two characters in this short-film because that’s simply all

that’s needed for it to essentially work – overcomplicating the short-film with different characters only leads to the short-film being dragged out, and with the time restraint of 5 minutes it seems like a waste of time.

• The characters will be one male and one female. The female will preferably be in her 50 or 60’s purely because she’ll have to look like a demon, but this isn’t an issue with special effects make-up which we have covered by a friend who did the course in college.

• The man would have to look in his 20’s to give that feel that he’s just got out of college and we’d understand he’s quite rich due to the room being well-furnished. He doesn’t live with his parents because they brought him the mansion as a gift and shots of them in a frame will appear somewhere in the short-film.

What we’d like our characters to look like

Forms and conventions• The film itself will be shot in black and white in order to set the theme

of fear and tension towards the audience. It releases a sense of horror towards the audience, as it’s meant to bring in darkness and that would be everyone’s fear at one point in their life.

Back-up PlanPenny’s Drop - Establishing the scene within a caravan, a male character, a book and a penny, laying on the side. In this dark, unsettled private land settles a low income man with little to his name. Forever the scent of burnt candles linger within the air around him. Supported by the use of one flickering light bulb hanging from the roof. He lays in there, just reading. A tapping sound in the background draws his attention. His facial emotions are scarce and confused. Bringing in the beat from the background of a tense nature, he moves over to the noise slowly. Watching every step he takes within. As the camera focuses on a crackling cupboard, he looks at it, worried and on edge. He brings his hands to the cupboard slowly. The music getting more intense, with the scent of fear bleeding from his skin. The tension of the environment he lives in gets to breaking point just when we flick to a shot of the a penny dropping. A lack of the male characters attention allows the cupboard to creak open. For only him not to know that his next turn will be his last followed by a loud scream of horror.

Question time

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