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Film Pitch

Genre

• Sci-Fi : the genre would become clear further on into the film but from the opening sequence with the scientist the film is hinting at it becoming a sci fi film.

What is it about• A butler who decides enough is enough and goes through

the forbidden door, he works a scientist and the scientist said “don’t go through that door.”….he went through it and goes through the space time continuum and lands back in the sixties but only for a short time. He finds he keeps going through the door and going back to places in his life…

• Gets addicted to going back, then things in the future change, lands back in house families different, house is different, friends are no longer friends etc but he is addicted and continues to go back to try and get old life but it is impossible and the man get lost in time.

Where is it set

• The setting of the film will be in the England countryside in a big manor house, where the scientist lives with his servant butler.

Themes• Sci-fi – the whole film will involve science fiction. The film will go

above the laws of science• Time travel – will be the main theme of the film. It will be

involved in every sequence of the butlers memory• Regret – everyone has regrets which people would like to go back

and change. This theme will allow people to show that some regrets are meant to happen to go on with life.

• Changing your past to improve your future – when the butler travels to his past he will realize he will have the opportunity to change events so he can have a better future.

• Struggle – the butler has struggled with his life since he was a little child and never appreciated what he had.

Films message

• Don’t try and change past, don’t get stuck in your past you will never get out of it

Target AudienceThe audience were are targeting our film towards are Old Age Pensioners.

As our film is Science fiction, we struggled to come up with a story line for out film that would attract the old

aged pensioners. After a lot of thought, we recognized that the film would

engage elder people more if we embedded a message into it, hence the

moral being the past is the past and everything happens for a reason,

everything that has happened in your life makes you the person you are

today.

The main character in our film is an elderly man played by Robert De Niro

which is a well known name in the film industry and as he is older our target

audience could relate to him and potential relate to the character.

Opening sequence

What happens

• The opening sequence follows the butler in his odd jobs before the scientist wakes, with narrative talking about his work, saying how long he has worked there, how the scientist annoys him (so the audience know to hate the scientist) etc until the scientist comes in bragging of his work and reminding the butler never to go in “the room”.

Specific Moments

• Childhood – bullied most of the time• 18th birthday – met his future wife however his

dad dies in a car crash• 23 – struggles to get a job and has his first kid

but can’t provide• 30 – 35 – Problems with his marriage• 45 – Car crash with family and the only onw

who survives.

Does it introduce the characters• the main protagonist (the butler) would be

immediately introduced and then so would the scientist afterwards.

• What is the style – a cinematic style with artsy filming like in Tree of Life but still folowing the story of a character and the inner message.

• What is the mood – The mood of the film will change from the opening sequence, at the beginning the mood will be cold and dark shown by the lighting and film look ( colours faded or darker) but once the butler travels back in time to a happy past with higher saturation of colours and warm lighting.

• Is it interesting/engaging idea – Any film following someone's story is engaging because the audience will wonder what is going to happen next and will be hooked because of this.

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• We plan to advertise this film through film posters being placed in places OAP’s would see i.e. Film Posters at Bust Stops, on bill boards, and a trailer on day time tv.

Any questions?