The Pitch

The Pitch

Opening  Pitch- 

We wanted to create a tension building thriller which followed the exploration of three characters through an abandonded building, unknowingly there is a 4th entity lurking in the shadows.

Mise en scéne-

The main goal we are trying to achieve is suspence, so our mise sen scéne will be he layout of an abandoned building, with cracks in the walls and abandoned junk all over the floor. Unlit rooms presenting one direction of light would set our scene. Mostly low key on lighting haveing rooms with very little to no light source. We would have shots of our characters on a roof which would be fully light but then as they enter the light would dimmer and dimmer which would show their descent into darkness.

Character Highlights-

Originally- originally we planned to have four characters we wanted each character to go againist the many sterotypical views of characters in films.

Male leader type character to boost the moral of the group and reassure everyone in the group that everything was ok, he was going to be the positive person out of the four as he was the adventurous one. We wanted him to look pretty normal, with no defining characteristics e.g. height, clothes, scars.

Scared character who would be one of our sterotype breaking characters, hew as going to be tall and have a big build and also have a alpha male type attutide. He would dress in lacoste or Jd sports clothes to make him seem like a chav but instead he, himself would be really scared of the building and would often get left behind and end up being the one lost. His girlfriend would be the complete opposite and not scared at all.

Techinical character, the tech guy he would operate the camera and have some first person shots of his journey through the building. He was going to be best friends with the leader and also be positive but passivly, he wouldnt scare easy or feel the need to turn back. We also planned for him to mischievous like he would provoke the scared character and make fun of him and cause him to become even more paranoid.

Brave unamused character, this character would be the scared character's girlfriend who wanted to join the exploration, and instead of being scared find the place boring and but get more into it the further she went in. Being the scared character's opposite she would slowly start to leave her boyfriend to venture with the other two.

Our final character design was that we dropped the brave unamused character and changed the qualites of the scared character, instead of him being notiably out of place (due to his size and his clothes, which would make the audience question what he was doing there with theother two) we make him similar to the other characters and kept him being scared and wanting to leave.

In the end the three character we kept were the Male leader type character, Scared character and the Techinical character.