My Film Opening Pitch

My Film Opening Pitch

My Film Opening PitchBy Sarah Olivier

BackgroundSetting: The future, the year 2050Background: The government has intervened due to a lack of confidence in the human race. They agreed that the human race could not be trusted to protect the world and so they set out to eliminate speech and face to face communication. They have used a form of mind control using special devices to ensure that everyone follows the rules.

Narrative of opening Open on a blurred, unsteady shot of a young girl running down the street. The camera angle switches between her point of view, the spectators and a security camera.The shot is from her point of view as she looks down at her arm, rolls up her sleeve and reveals a message engraved on her arm, it reads: ERROR CODE 404- signifying to the audience that something has gone wrong. Change to a family sitting around a table, mindlessly eating dinner. There is no speech between them all and they all appear to be brainwashed or in some kind of dazed sleep.

The girl bursts through the front door, panting and screaming at the family sitting down.It all falls silent and the family look up from their meals and turn towards the girl with emotionless expressions.The girl begins to cry and scream out for her mother and father to snap out of it and wake up!. By this point the audience is aware that she is special and different to the others. A siren/or loud noise is heard and then the camera changes to the girls point of view again as a hand holding a cloth reaches out from behind her, smothering her. Whimpering sounds are heard as the camera fades to black.

Similar films

Films that I consider to be similar would be:ElysiumTotal RecallThe Hunger Games SeriesThe Divergent SeriesChildren of MenLooper

These are because they are all set in a dystopian future created by the government or as a result of actions taken by the human race.