Production Pitch

This is the pitch we did to the class. In order to green light our production

Characters, Props and Locations

Characters:

Harry: Also the camera man for the POV shots. The character appears to be the lone survivor of a plane crash but not alone on the island.

Mysterious creature: unknown creature also lives on the island that the plane crashed on.

News reader: A average news reader covering the story of the missing plane. 

Props:

Bags and suitcases, fallen out of the plane. Helps set the scene of a plane crash nearby.

Knife found by the survivor:  used by the survivor to craft things and protect himself.

Canteen found: used to keep water in.

Camera:

The camera we used for the POV shots was a specialized sports camera used to catch action.

Location:

The location we used for the forest was the chalk mines and surrounding area in Wareside.

Scripts

Octavion:

Because he is alone he will only speak when he is mumbling, this means that he will start speaking randomly. Because he is alone, he will say things such as: oh god, what happened, what the f**k and sh*t. This is because he is the only character in the opening sequence and it would make the audience wonder why the character is by their self, the dialogue will be used when the character sees a mysterious character behind a tree.

Newsreader:

News just in, a plane, with flight number of 1337 has disappeared whilst it was on its flight path to Australia. No one knows what has happened to the plane, Are there any survivors? No one knows.

Production Animatic

This is my productions Animatic. The purpose of the animatic is to plan out our production shots and story.

Shot list

Shot 1:  Establishing extreme-long shot of main character lying in a forest.
Shot 2: High angle shot of character waking up.
Shot 3: Longshot of character walking through forest with suitcase.
Shot 4: High angle medium shot of character looking at a bag up in a tree hanging off of a cliff.
Shot 5: Medium shot of character climbing the cliff to get the bag.
Shot 6: Medium shot of character dropping the bag and climbing back down the cliff.
Shot 7: Close up of character going through the bag.
Shot 8: High angle extreme-long shot of character filling u a water bottle in a river.
Shot 9: Low angle shot of character looking into a river.
Shot 10: Over the shoulder shot of the character reaching into the river to retrieve a knife.
Shot 11: Point of view shot of the character holding the knife.
Shot 12: Long shot of character cutting down a tree branch.
Shot 13: High angle medium shot of character crafting a bow and arrows.
Shot 14: Medium shot of character testing the bow and arrows.
Shot 15: Extreme long shot of character screaming in frustration.
Shot 16: Medium shot of character seeing a green camouflaged man peeking out from behind a tree. 

Roles of group:

Harry – Main actor (the survivor)

Daniel – Director and editor

Sam – runner/supporting actor

Target Audience

The genre of our film opening is mystery, which has a large target audience. Similar films are Seven, Shutter Island and Donnie Darko.

Some of the things that our target audience might like are:

The primary target audience age group for our film is between the ages of 15 and 35. The Social groups are B, C1, C2, and D. The audience will have jobs that vary from well paying to minimum wage, The audience will be interested in puzzles and films or books with unexpected plot twists. 

Our secondary target audience will be a niche audience that enjoy films that keep the audience guessing as they like to guess what is going to happen next. 

Initial Ideas

Some of the initial ideas we had:


Props

• Knife,
•  Bow .  or survival bow  

Locations

• forest, 
• camp-site
• river bank

Story

Equilibrium:  Plane going from Australia to Vietnam

Disruption: A plane goes missing, unknown to people it crashes on a mysterious island. There is only one survivor. There is a mysterious creature on the island that begins to stalk the lone survivor .

Recognition: After many days of observing the survivor the mysterious creature attacks lone survivor.

Resolution: The lone survivor fights back kills creature leaving  its babies to survive on their own, not that the survivor knows. 

• Plane crash
• lone survivor 

Opening Sequence of Shutter Island Analysis

The opening of Shutter Island has very little credits, in fact other than the production companies animations and the title of the film, there is no credits. This could be to get the audience to concentrate on what is happening in the scene and not miss important information. This could be the badge and gun on the characters belt, suggesting he is a police officer. It could also be the shackles hanging from the roof, suggesting that where ever the boat is going, it is going to be bring back prisoners or try to. This could then suggest that the man is a agent for a government agency such as the FBI or CIA rather than being a police officer, because he is going on a boat to somewhere to bring back multiple prisoners.

The film Shutter Island is part of the mystery genre. Some conventions may be low key lighting, little to no information on characters and have things for the audience to see and make guesses about. Shutter Island has all three of these conventions, with no information on the character other than his name. The setting is a boat, that has low key lighting, a common trait of mystery genre films. There are some hand cuffs hanging from the roof, letting audience think that the boat may be some sort of prison.

There is a few different types of shots used during the opening. There is an establishing shot of the boat, and there is the standard close up, medium up and other shots. The pace of shots is slow with shots lasting around 4-6 seconds. The transitions are just plain cuts between the shots.

There is not much sound used in the opening, but all the sound is diegetic, such as the boat horn and dialogue. There is no music or sound effects or any special effects are used in the opening. The opening is a very linear and typical opening of the mystery genre. There is the big question of why are there shackles hanging from the roof of the boat, and where is the boat going which is to be expected.