Pitch
- 2. Brief Overview • The genre of our film is a psychological thriller. • It is about a creepy stalker who harms the girl who he loves as she is vulnerable and he doesn't want to let go of her. • Other similar movies include 'Split'. Most of our inspiration was gained from this movie as we built our character from the main character. • This led to my group and I thinking that it would be a good idea if we had a antagonist who was a creepy stalker and knew about the girl he likes whereabouts, which is similar to the film 'The Gift'.
- 3. Key Characters • In our story we have two main characters. The protagonist and the antagonist. The Antagonist is a key character because the story line revolves around him. He is the reason for the harm and every aspect of the storyline. He is psychologically hurt and distressed about the fact that he was rejected by his one and only love. His love turns creepy and leads him to physically harming the protagonist, to force her to not let him go. The antagonist is socially awkward, he does not know much about social norms. He was often alone in the foster home. The Protagonist is the innocent individual in our story who has a creepy stalker revolving around her. She is a young university student who has overcome her struggles of the past of being an orphan and growing up in a Foster home. She is determined to make a career for herself in the medical industry. She is being stopped by the antagonist as he will not leave her alone.
- 4. Promotional Campaign • Branding: We will establish our brand through using common font designs, repeated images and words including 'love', 'hate' and 'danger'. • USP/Key Aspects: Throughout our promotional campaign we want to include the rose as it is central to the narrative and makes our film stand out from others. • Genre: To help establish the genre we are going to include conventional features including a dark background, bold red font and a key central image. • Narrative Themes: Some themes that we want to establish are love, isolation, desire, danger and jealousy. • Character Representation: Through this promotional campaign we will represent the female as a victim through shocked, scared facial expressions with high key lighting and the male as the villain through elements like low key lighting using shadows to highlight threatening facial expressions.
- 5. Poster Ideas • From researching other poster from thrillers, we noticed they used one specific central image. • We decided on using a red rose as our main image on our poser. This will symbolize our main themes, love, desire and danger. • However, the rose will be dying to represent the broken past of the main male character. • We will use low key lighting for the image and put it against a black background to enhance the genre. Tag Line Ideas: 'There's a fine line between love and hate' 'Your past is never forgotten' 'Some gifts aren't always wanted' • The title will be in red, and a handwriting font and the bottom of the poster, with the tag line in a white font at the top.
- 6. Teaser Trailer Ideas - Timeline Title screen, release dates, institutional information and social media links Open on antagonist writing love note Leaves note with a rose at protagonist's house Protagonist thinks it is a joke at first Leaves more love notes and roses Calls the police and reports it, sees him at window – we plan to use a voiceover here. Leaves dead roses, notes are more threatening – trailer picks up pace here Series of fast cuts of scared facial expressions, locking of doors, creepy photos etc. Use of text graphics will be used here (similar to/same as tagline)
- 7. Target Audience • The themes to our film definitely are relative to younger people, both male and female, Love, Desire and growing up with a broken childhood. • However, we found it difficult to find a specific age group to target as even though the characters are relatable to a younger audience, because of the mature themes and difficult plot twists usually associated with phycological thrillers, it may be also aimed to older audiences. • The target audience will also be interested in modern life and social media as thrillers tend to be base on real life events.