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PASSER LEVITAS : FACT OR FICTION?

SYNOPSIS

Follow James Radcliffe-Winterbottom and Billy Edwards as they embark on an

adventure into the harsh wilderness of Great Britain in search of the mysticalbeast, Passer Levitas or the Lightning Sparrow. 

 Throughout the ages, ‘sightings’ have been reported in the New Forest of a small

sparrow-like creature which can seemingly vanish at will. Contrary to popular

belief, Scientists have deduced that the creature (known as Passer Levitas or

Lightning Sparrow) is not disappearing but has in fact evolved to be able to

travel faster than the human eye can comprehend. It is assumed that the small,

helpless bird has developed in this way over time to escape from other predators

in its natural environment. Could this be a British relative of the more famous

Lightining Bird or Impondulu?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Bird 

Various photos of questionable validity have been published and many locals

speak of tales of the creature, but scientists are yet to put forward any hard

evidence that the creature exists.

Will they uncover the mystery surrounding the bird or expose it once and for all

as delusional ramblings of a bewildered small-town folk?

FORMAT

 This will be a one off documentary style video centering on 2 young, explorer

types who have caught wind of this creature and attempt to uncover its secret.It will be shot by one of the 2 lads and the other will present. The video will take

a lot of inspiration from the shooting style of The Blair Witch Project, creating a

sense of mystery amongst the audience in regards to its authenticity.

It will start with an intro into the phenomena with some reference to old material

they have found on the bird: old books, questionable photos (a la lochness/

Bigfoot/ UFOs), newspaper cuttings etc. This will lead to them tracking down and

interviewing witnesses, namely one old woman who claims to have seen the bird,

but only as it flew (at lightning speed) into her eye and blinded her. A few

feathers were found but no other evidence that this was the cause and her

claims were ignored and it was assumed that she was crazy (she does seem very

crazy!). Also a scientist type who will put it down to some kind of 

weather/electrical phenomena. Toshiba adverts/products may be scattered

around subliminally in the various places they go.

After the initial research they head out into a vast forest area in search for the

bird. Several clues lead them to believe that the bird does exist and they follow a

trail deeper in. Things vanish etc. They devise a plan to capture the bird: A large

net covering a large area of the forest, from root to canopy and use blow horns

or something similar from opposing corners to attempt to force the bird towards

the net, knowing that it is notoriously a ‘scaredy cat’. As they get closer to thenet we see a CGI effect of something getting caught in the net, then a struggle,

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then it breaks free and you see the host get hit, then something else get hit then

suddenly the camera is knocked out of the camera man’s hand and all goes

silent. He picks it up and looks around; the host gets up holding his face which is

bleeding. Final words about whether it’s a bird or not they should leave.

PRODUCT PLACEMENT

 The main Toshiba reference will be the Handycam that the guys use to film the

doc, something like the image below where we can either see it via a second

camera or the cameraman can stop at a mirror and look into it revealing the logo

on the rear of the flip out screen, very quickly much like the Hi Tech Reference in

the Walking on Water video linked at the end of this document. This will show

the audience the power of Toshiba HD video and the ability to shoot high quality

video at an affordable price.

Other than that, we will place Toshiba adverts around subliminally in the various

locations and also possibly have one of the interviewees a manager of a TV shop

in the town and have Toshiba products behind him.

VIRAL POTENTIAL

 The aim is to create a doc that is believable (or at least semi believable and

funny). Like the Hi Tec ad, people will most likely spot that it’s fake but this will

not stop them from enjoying it and passing it around to their friends. Witht the

use of clever stunts and CGI for the last scene where the host is knocked down

and the camera is knocked to the ground, people will hopefully be intrigued and

attempt to figure out how it’s done. In addition to the vid we can also release a

making of for this purpose.

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Further Viral potential will be created by showing a fake wiki page in the vid

which we will actually create on the eb so that viewers can click and be directed

to which will further confuse. We will also create a series of video diaries and

blogs which will be searchable on google and other search engines to create

more mystery.

REFERENCE IMAGES

Host

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‘Crazy Old Lady’ ‘Scientist’

Passer Levitas

New forest

The Town

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Evidence

VIDEO REFERENCES

Gap Yah

Blair Witch

Bruce Parry 

Springwatch

Walk on Water

Supersonic Plane

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