Film pitch plan

Assignment 2: Film Pitch

Our production task for Assignment 2 involves coming up with our own film promotion for an original movie that we have created.

*Note: this CANNOT be a Science Fiction film due to clashes with the exam topic

Title and tagline: Don't look back Tagline: One big step to Death

Genre (and sub-genre if applicable): Action/Thriller

Logline – one sentence that sums up the film and hooks people in (25 words or fewer): 3 girls take a vacation and stay at their step brothers house and find a secret passage. What they dont know is that its haunted maze... Will they make it out?

Other successful films that are similar to yours: Texas Chainsaw and The Descent.

Narrative structure – what happens in the film and in what order (max 100 words): In this film, its starts as 3 girls on their summer break who are having a vacation in their step-brothers house and find a secret passage. What they dont know is that theirs a secret passage leading to a haunted maze... Will one betray the other...?

Hero/heroine, their desires, the conflicts they encounter etc.: The hero is Zaynab Naveed, is the villian/ghost/monster, Sanaa Shah is the main character.

Costume/props that the hero requires (for film poster photoshoot): rough, ripped clothes and long white clothing for the ghost/monster and Mirror.

Other characters and their audience appeal: Saffa Jasrai as the evil woman

Target audience for your film (age, gender, social class, interests etc.): The target audience for this film is for teenagers over 16 only because the genre is horror and will be inaproppiate to younger kids. This could be for Female and Male eventhough it has much more scenes then men.

Frozen film key convention

Central image:
On the central image there is 6 characters (Anna, Elsa, Hans, olaf, Christoph, Sven- the reindeer/moose). The central image is placed in the central and not on the side like other posters. The characters look very independent and confident as there standing in clear view. This picture and been taken from a lower angel to make them look tough even though its a Disney movie. They are wearing posh clothes as they are related in a way to the Queen and Princess of Arandale.

Key Conventions: 
Tagline
Short cuts
Title
Release date
Lighting
Social media ( Websites, tweets, #)
Production blurb
Reviews
Iconography

Frozen Analysis

Frozen:
Your chosen movie:
1. I have chosen this film because its a really popular film and because animated films are always the best when it come to money because kids watch it and spread it to their friends and its a Disney princess film so a variety of more people would like to come and see the film.
 I chose this film in particular because its Disney and much more people like to see it if its either: parents.

Brand/ Film cover:
2. The production company behind this film is Walt Disney studios.
The film Frozen fits into the genre animated Family/comedy. This fits with the genre because the movie entertains the audience by comedy and this film is rated PG (parental guidance). If its PG then it is for family's to enjoy. The person I picked was the director there's two directors: Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck. They have a lot of experience making Walt Disney movies as they have over 1 movie that they have made to do with Disney Animated movies.

Risky Business:
3. The budget of the film is $150 million which is a massive amount. Frozen was at the top 5th highest grossing- film. All together they made $1.219 at the box office.

Social
4. On social media the public reviews mostly said how good the film was and how they watched it several times. This film got famous by rumors, apps etc. Children of all ages will enjoy this and not just children it can be adults/parents of children who are interested in the movie.

Institutional background:

Frozen is a Animation Original Walt Disney 3D movie made in 2013. Just the advert/trailer got a big amount of views.(Theirs a new Frozen called 'Frozen fever' Which is only out in cinemas before playing the film Cinderella!)

NCIS Film Trailers

 1. Film: The Outfield 
Genre:

Drama

Narrative

The story line is based on three boys who want to be successful in baseball but have passion for other things there good at. While their coach who is one of the boys farther does not accept that. Their is a little amount of Romance and Sadness e.g: kissing and crying. This is typical Romance and sadness as many films have this.

Character

The Character in this film is the two boys Cameron Dallas and Nash Grier and Joey Bragg. The main person is Cameron Dallas as he helps his friend and him to do what he wants and still compete in baseball but to pursue their dreams. 

Iconography  

Their is a variety amount of iconography as theirs: running, hitting a ball in to the blue sky (slow-motion) etc and this creates tension. 

Setting

The setting of this film is mostly at school because their high school students and in a baseball match area.

2. Film: Annie
Genre:
Comedy Family film/ Musical

Narrative
The story line is clearly shown as a comedy and drama about a foster kid who lives with her mean foster mum and see's her life change from being a ordinary kid to being a daughter of a President.

Character
The Character in this film is a little girl and a group of other girls who are in a orphaning. This goes with the genre because shes funny and talented and has such a nice personality towards others.

Iconography
The iconography in this film is mostly singing because its a musical and running.

Setting
The setting of this movie takes place in a house (presidents house) and on the streets of New York! Most of the songs in the film are on the streets.

3. Film: Annabelle
Genre:
Horror?Thriller

Narrative
The story line is clearly shown that there's some what doll that is possessed and haunts a this women who has a collection of dolls. Some how the doll kills other members.

Character
The characters in this film is a olden scary-looking doll and another girl who is possessed with the doll and they both haunt another young lady who has no way to escape.

Iconography
In this film there is a lot of iconography as theirs images of the doll running and the scary face girl jumping out and views from corners which give us jumps.

Setting
Even though its a 1-2 minute trailer i can see that's its based in a house which is much more scary because the house is locked which gives thrills. (This movie was made in America)

Magazine Cover

Shot 1)

Medium shot 

The medium shot allows a clear view of the soldiers in front, this picture was taken from a medium shot so we could see some background. In the background we are able to see more police, from this we can infer that Tom Cruise is being chased and he may not be able to get away this creates tension and engages the audience more. We are able to see a clear view of the front policeman his facial expression gives away the fact that he is worried and not happy about the situation.

Shot 2)

 

Wide shot/Medium shot 

This medium shot shows a scene where a car is about to explode. The wide shot helps establish the location as some sort of corner street. In the background we notice a man and from his body language/position we can tell he is trying to run away and escape. We are also able to notice that a bright light is bursting through a hole towards car this may create unease to the scene.

Shot 3)

Medium close up

This is a medium a close up view of tom cruise staring at something in the distance. From is facial expression he looks scared or worried at something he is staring at. Since it is a medium close up we are not able to see background.

The Avengers

• The film Avengers is based on super heroes and how they save the world from villains. It introduces a variety of characters, all playing different roles such as Iron Man, Thor etc.
• Avengers is about 7 heroes who have to save the world by these robots/creatures from space who enter earth from a portal that one of the villains has created. The 6 characters are Thor, Black Widow, Captain America, Hulk, Clint Barton, Quicksilver.
• Space is the setting used throughout the movie. This reinforces the ideology of genre and indicates straight away that the movie is a science-fiction.

• The genre of this movie is a hybrid of Science-Fiction and Superheroes.
• IMDb tells us that Avengers is rated an average of 8.1/10 from just under 1 million individuals.
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Marvel's Avengers Assemble (2012) - Official trailer | HD - YouTube
this is the trailer to the avengers movie!




|The movie is warner brothers. the cast our at the top of the first paragraph. the film was famous for  the people that was that was acted in the film.

Another great science fiction film is 'The maze runner' this movie is created with unreal villains.