Pitch 1

Genre; Drama/Thriller

Micro-features; Cinematography, Mise en scene, Sound

Settings;

Chatham for opening and ending scenes in the late evening and Carl’s house for argument and embrace during the day for flashbacks

Target audience; Middle aged audience

Age restriction; Rated 15 (due to the mild violence, murder and upsetting scenes)

Plot outline;

• Background goes blank and shows the title ‘The Flashback’.
• Low angle shot, gradually zooming into wife with low volume music in the background and the sounds of her crying slightly.
• Changes to slightly more to the side still zooming in with a better view of the wife on screen. Both she is centre of the camera.
• Wife is wearing ‘rebel’ clothes with piercings and her make-up is running down her face because of the tears.
• Flashback to wife meeting husband first time before marriage
• Back to opening scene
• Flashback to happy first date with visual cues of a good time
• Back to opening scene, zooming into the wife’s face
• Flashback to proposal
• Back to opening scene and panning up from floor to see what the wife is wearing (rebel with piercings)
• Flashback to happy eventful wedding (everyone’s happy)
• Back to opening scene close up on her face, piercings and make-up
• Flashback of heated argument
• Back to opening and close up on eyes filled with emotion
• Flashback to the incident where the husband pushes the wife and falls over and hits her head
• Her looking into the fire and we see the wedding dress and photos burning in the flames
• Flashback to when the wife poisoning the husband in his drink to accompany his dinner she has prepared
• Her wiping away her tears then looking at her wedding ring then throwing it into the fire and walking away.

Unique selling point;  Emotional drama that sums up a relationship once the initial love has faded and turns sour involving the death of the violent husband and involves domestic violence and upsetting scenes.

Song; Get It Right – Glee – 3:55 needs to be cut down for two minute film using iTunes

Scheduling;

Scene	Location	Props/Dress/Equipment	Notes	Cost
Scene 1 – Freya over the fire	Chatham	Fire/Rebel clothing/Camera, fire extinguisher, camp fire lighter	Film day one – late afternoon for lighting	£10 – fire extinguisher
Scene 2 – Date, Toby invites Freya over for dinner	Carl’s house	Wine glasses, flowers, food/Casual wear/Camera	Film day two – Evening for normal setting of dinner time	£ for food
Scene 3 – Wedding	Place found, exact address unknown	Camera, extra/Wedding clothes/Camera	Film day two – Day time for lighting	Unknown
Scene 4 – Argument	Carl’s house	-/Casual wear/Camera	Film day three – Afternoon	–
Scene 5 – Poisoning	Carl’s house	Medicine bottle, rat poison bottle, food/Casual wear/Camera	Film day three – Afternoon	<£5 for rat posion

Checklist;

Brainstorm

Research ideas

Write scripts – Not needed, no dialogue

Pitch ideas and projects

Create storyboard

Budget – minimal

Create shooting schedule

Survey and select locations

Create shot list

Create scene breakdown

Obtain equipment – Mr Lewis for camera

Film required scenes – three to four days

Review footage

Create paper edit

Edit footage

Import footage to computer

Present finished film