Script for Pitch
- 1. Script For Pitch Working title: Seashell as it is the main element of the story. Length of Film: 5-7 mins, so not so long but I can add extra minutes if it is required. Tagline/Logline: A young girl and her father find a seashell on the beach. It is now part of her lifestyle after the incident. Characters: • A young child • Name: Palm Green • Gender: Female • Age: 10 years old • Personality is she is kind, she likes to have fun. She likes to spend time with her father when he is around. (Even though throughout most of the movie, she is quite sad and depressed.) • The Father • Name: Don Green • Age: 35 years old • Personality is also nice but almost never has time to play with her daughter, as his job is a truck driver. • The Mother • Name: Kara Green • Age: 33 years old • Personality is that she is paranoid and concerned for her daughter especially in acts 2 and 3. • The Students • Age Range: 10-12 years old • Personalities: Mean, talks behind people’s backs.
- 2. Synopsis: Act 1: Palm and her dad play by the shore of the beach. They both start digging in the sand and find a special kind of seashell. Palm treasures this shell and holds it up to her ear which reminds her of how much fun Palm and her father had that day, and it keeps her calm. Act 2: 2 months later, Palm goes to schooland the students at schoolcall her a weirdo and talk behind her back, for bringing a seashell to schooleveryday and talks to it whenever she is alone. After school, and at night, they both sit around the dinner table and Palm puts her seashell on a chair where her dad sits. Her mother is concerned and paranoid that Palm is not having a good social life at schoolanymore. Kara asks how her day was and Palm responds with a monotonous tone saying “It was okay”. Act 3: The next day, after school, Kara picks her up to go see her father. They visit a graveyard, and stand in front of her father’s grave while they weep. They place flowers over the grave as a gift to him. The tombstone reveals that he died because of an accident on the road/crash. TargetAudience: 10 to 35 year old male/female. The typical audience who would watch it would like one-off short films, drama, and want an indirect message in the story as opposed to being told what the message is explicitly. In the NRS scale, the typical audience would be at Working Class to Lower Middle Class. For the younger audiences in the age demographic (10-16 years old), they would be at Lowest Grade Workers. The audience would most likely be categorized with Aspirers, and the Resigned. Form and Style: There is not any sort of film style I am going for, I will make the film like most films and make it in a modern style. Marketplace:It will be viewed online on streaming websites (YouTube), and it can be a submission for short film challenges and contests. It will not have any sequels/spin-offs as the short film is a one-off and is supposed to give a message. Working Title: Detention Length of Film: 5-6 minutes Logline/Tagline:The students are trying to get into detention but the teacher will not allow them to. There must be something bigger in the works. Introduction of keycharacters: The Teacher:
- 3. ◦ Name: Mrs. Moreno ◦ Age: 25 years ◦ Personality: Strict, tired The Students: ◦ Number of Students (total): 10 ◦ Genders: Half of them are males, half are females. ◦ Age Range: 8-12 years ◦ Personalities: Most students in the film are shy and quiet, but they try to act aggressive and mean. Synopsis: Act 1: The film opens up to a classroomwith a single teacher and a single student. The student is in detention and the teacher is the supervisor. Mrs. Moreno is forcing her eyes to stay open as she wants to go home herself. Act 2: Then, 3 boys come into detention and the teacher interrogated them asking what they did wrong. They said they that they bullied some smaller kids but said in a really menacing tone, the teacher tells them to leave, they respond with a question, they ask why that student is in detention The teacher says its’s because she cheated on a test, she stole the answer sheets from the safe containing them. Every few minutes, more students come into detention and stating their reasons, and their reasons become less troublesome and are more like some minor inconveniences for other students and the school. But they insist that they must go to detention. Act 3: Mrs. Moreno starts to scroll through the news on her computer/laptop. The headlines on the local news is urgent. There was a war going on in the local neighbourhood. All roads have been heavily populated with soldiers with heavy artillery. TargetAudience: 15 to 40 years old males and females (majority of the audience will be male). The audience would be likely to watch short one-off films in their free time. The audience would watch a film with the genre being surreal. The adult audience in the NRS Scale would most likely be Working Class to Lower Middle Class, for the audience that is younger would be in the Lowest Grade Workers. The typical audience if they were compared in the 4C’s, they would be The Reformers, and the Explorers.
- 4. Form and Style: It will be filmed on a digital camera, the overall lighting will be dimly lit throughout the movie and the effects/lighting will be practical. The movie also takes place in the late afternoon. I want to create tension in the air with the general atmosphere via the lighting and the small silences in the classroom. Marketplace:This will be uploaded onto streaming sites like YouTube and possibly submit the film as an entry of a short film challenge. There will be no sequel to this film.