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Film Pitch: Lost LifeBy William Craig, Max Gridley,

Ben Clifford and Deborah Hughes.

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Context

Our film is targeted at ages 13 to 30 due to the violence involved with the film however as the narrative will show the film is mainly about the effect involved with the disaster not the incident itself.

Based in the genre of the film and the rough narrative the production company would be Amblin Entertainment, this company is US based and has produced films like Twister (1996) which has the same disaster/drama hybrid as our film opening.

Our opening will have similarities to classic disaster films like Twister, 2012 and Flood whereas they can also be compared to dramatic films that deal with death like The Bucket List and Seven Pounds.

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Inspirations

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVYP46ecl4YZombieland: This inspiration is down to the clever credits and the hybrid of genres.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xVXVN-ooQI

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: We found inspiration from this film due to the good shots and location. The phone call is clever and the idea may be used in our film.

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Genre Conventions

The genre of my film is drama.

In our opening we are concentrating on specific people and how the disaster effects them. It is extremely hard to film a disaster scene that looks realistic so therefore we will limit the number of shots that include the difficult scenes and try to angle the shots so that it look as good as possible.

The genre will be clear due to the emotions shown by the actors and the horror conveyed in the disaster scenes. The empathy will be given in the disaster scenes due to people dying.

The target audience for this film would be teenagers as the rating will be 12A. Also the actors within this will be teenagers and therefore wouldn’t appeal to older generations.

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Message and Themes

Themes: Horror, Disaster, News, Disorientation, Real life events.

The opening will introduce the victim and the family member receiving the news. These two characters will be the main stars in the film.

Narrative: A disaster (natural or otherwise) occurs and the character Ben is a victim a second scene is running parallel to this of a news article where the disaster is being reported. The victim is witnessing the disaster from the ground and then you see the emotion of the person watching from there home.

Icons: TV which represents the news and the receiving of events. The bodies on the floor which represent the death and horror of the situation. This is also shown in destruction through the rubble.

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Textual Analysis

We aim to include a wide range of shots in this opening as the genre allows different interpretations. For example we will use close ups of Max receiving the news as it will intensify the emotion. However for the disaster a wide panning shot would be effective to show the extent of the disaster, although this may be difficult to film.

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Practicalities

Characters: The main characters in this film opening will be Ben who will be the news reporter and Max who will play the person receiving the news. There will only be the need for two characters in this opening as in the opening we will just create the problem and not go into detail of how this will be resolved. Other actors may play people injured in the disaster however this hasn’t been planned yet.

Setting: The setting of the film would be indoors in a living room as it would be a recording of a TV. The actual news report could be taken anywhere. The shots taken of a disaster scene will be taken on a road or street however we may use a green screen to get the shots. We could also use a beach or the sea in our opening to show the damage of the disaster.

Our opening is attainable as the majority of the opening will be the breaking news filmed in a home and a section of background of the persons life.