Pitch

Title of Film: Into The Darkness

Plot Synopsis: The film that I am making a title sequence for is going to be centred on the issue of kidnap. The whole film will concentrate on the deception of young people and how they don’t realise the capability of older people. The kidnapper we see is a particularly violent kidnapper and abuses then murders the young people he captures. The film is aimed at a teenage to young adult audience, which is more relatable because the actors/actresses in the film are from the teenage generation. The film follows a young group of people, who after the death of their best friend attempt to stop the kidnapper/murderer in his tracks. However they are not as successful as they once thought they would be.

Opening Sequence: The opening sequence gives background to the rest of the film and informs the audience of how the best friend, who the group are trying to bring justice to, was violently killed by the kidnapper. The title sequence in the most part is from the kidnapper’s point of view, using a freehand camera so that the effect is jerky. The camera follows the young girl through the woodlands where she is brutally murdered. However the audience do not see the killing and are left to assume what has happened.

Creative Techniques:

Composition

The victim will always be placed lower than the murder or smaller than the murderer so that the murderer is always at a higher strength of power. I will use high angles and low angles to establish the composition of the lower/bigger power status.

Conventions

The film will have next to no/very low lighting through the most part to develop ‘Fear of the Unknown’ amongst the audience. The woodland location that I am using is typical to see in a horror film as canopies cover and make the location more secluded, allowing no one to help or see the killing/horror. The title sequence will hold the instigator for the whole film so that the audience are the subject to horror from the very first few seconds of the film.

Enigmas

The mystery created at the beginning of the film, during the title sequence, will be the kidnap. Questions such as, who is the girl?, who is the kidnapper?, what happens next?, who else has he killed? Later on in the film, the questions are answered, however the audience are tricked through twists and turns in the narrative so that these questions are present from the first few minutes to the very last minutes.

Funding/Distribution:

I am creating this film as an independent film company. Quite a lot of horrors are created by smaller institutions such as independent film companies which are then pitched to bigger institutions. For example, in The Grudge, Ghost House Pictures pitch their film to Columbia in order to join their smaller institution with a larger one, such as Columbia. My film is quite similar to ‘The Lovely Bones’ even though this film wasn’t specifically a horror, it still was based on a kidnap and the death of someone trying to be justified. The total US gross up until now for this film is £44,114,232. Due to my film being made independently and that it is more of a horror than ‘The Lovely Bones’ but with similar initial ideas I expect it to make less than The Lovely Bones but a lot for its genre.