Our Second Idea Pitch

Working title: Survivor

Length: 5 minutes

Format: 16:9 DV Pal

Hook or tag line:

Where is everyone?

Short synopsis:

A woman called Rose survives an apocalyptic disaster. We follow her through his journey to survive. She encounters other survivors that play a cat and mouse game of deception to torment her and lure her into a trap.

Mid-Length synopsis/outline (250 words):

A 20 year old woman called Rose survives an apocalyptic disaster. We follow her through in a dream of her learning skills to survive in the wasteland such as camping, archery and then she sees a mushroom cloud and it snaps her out of the dream. She wakes up in her tent as her dog Sam is licking her on the face. Sam warns her of the two people that he has seen. She looks for a new location to hide and survey the new people. She discovers an abandoned factory and sets up a camp. Meanwhile the two male characters called Brad and Tyler who have noticed that there is someone else in the same area as them. They investigate and discover Rose. They try and become friends with her and she accepts them after careful consideration. Although she notices that they have weird tendencies and cannot be trusted. She leaves for her own safety and carries on wandering the wasteland. They follow Rose and play mind games with her by following her and raiding her supplies in the night and decide to injure Rose's dog. Rose in anger kills both Brad and Tyler. Her dog is slowly dying through injury, so to put it out of its misery; Rose must bring up the courage to put her dog down.

Analysis of approach (500 words):

How will you make this film? What will it look and sound like? What is its style? What are the techniques used? What works were inspirational to the film? What works does it resemble? What is its mood? Its ambience?  Demonstrate enthusiasm and a distinctive visual/aural voice here. Include references to TWO films that you have watched as research.

The film will have a grainy and bright effect, giving the indication that the air isn't normal. There will be plenty of empty space in the shots, aiming to show how lonely and secluded the characters are. We would need to make most of the sounds in post-production as we would need to simulate the atmosphere of an apocalyptic world due to too much noise pollution in the real world. We will look for a secluded factory because there will not be as much noise pollution and so this will be easier to edit. There will be a subtle simple tone underlying throughout the film that will link to the idea of radiation. Throughout the action there will be build-up of orchestral music that speeds up closer to the action. Also with her heartbeat when she sees Tyler and Brad for the first time.

Our inspiration would be "I am Legend", we used this because of the relationship with the man and dog in the post-apocalyptic world. We wanted to use a woman as a heroin because in stereotypical horror movies women are perceived as weak. We also want to show how a woman would fight through this horror with the scene where the dog dies we thought that this could link very well to the film as it is very emotional for the audience. We also got our inspiration from "Funny Games" with the two men who are trying to play games with her and have the intention to torment her. However we did not want to have the two men who are abnormal to win because we want to please the audience and show how a woman who is stronger than the two men. We also looked at the "Book of Eli" because of the lighting and the colours they use for the background shots. We want the idea that she loses her only companion and so she doesn’t have any friends left and so the only hope she has left is to find new companions.

The mood is very ominous, intense, and uncomfortable feeling with the two men. This will be very sad for the audience when the dog dies.