1. Our Film Pitch
By Lorna George, Jessica Burdon, Leah Harte and Charlotte Revell
2. Main Idea
Suffragettes
Suffragettes compared
to Clinton and Teresa
May.
Differences
between their
role and how
they are
portrayed
Show how the suffragettes fought to give
women the vote and how hard it was for them
to live in the 1900s as women and how far
women have come to live how we do today.
Feminist ideas.
Women's rights 1900’s
and today
4. Film Title Ideas
• Women's rights
• Our right
• Changes for women
• Stand together
• Thanks to them
• Because of them
5. Plot
• Comparison between suffragettes/ 1900s women and the modern women.
• Side by side comparison of daily life.
• Modern day women, takes for granted the privilege of voting.
• Election is coming up and modern day women isn’t going to vote. She late finds and old photo of a great great
grandmother who was a suffragette, this then takes her back to when women did not have the right to vote.
• Our film is about the journey of women throughout time and how important it is for us to acknowledge this privilege
today.
• The modern day women time travels/sees back in time to how difficult it was for her great great grandmother this then
leads to her making a modern day movement encouraging female votes and then leading to her making her first electrical
vote.
6. Opening Sequence
• The opening sequence will give the audience clues about the
characters and their relation to each other without giving too much
information away.
• It will show the life of the person in the past and the person in the
present, switching between the two.
• The person in the past will be shown in black and white to emphasise
that the scene is set in the past.
7. Mise En Scene
Costume- 1900s women wear so long coat and long skirt. 2016 women business wear like
black skirt and white shirt.
Lighting- natural high key lighting.
Actors- 1900’s women 20 years old
2016 22 years old both working class
Makeup-neutral natural make up
Props- photographs, costumes, hats, signs posters, phone, laptop, album, box, ballot box,
Setting- museum (will look like home),natural, cloudy, early evening, indoors and outdoors.
Set in 1900’s and 2016
8. Editing- (invisible- subconscious)
Sound-
Music- 1900s women has classical music for the 2016 women Top 40/charts
Diegetic/ non-diegetic- We have music in the background and some speech
Off screen/ On screen- we will see some of the speech however the music is off
screen.
Emotion Felt- In the 1900s the music is quite slow and emotional. Where as the
2016 music is light hearted.
Dialogue- When people are specking is quite hushed and quiet as they are talking to
themselves.
Editing (most invisible)
Screen time- The screen time will be split between the two characters.
Transitions- The transitions will be quite natural apart from when the 1900s to 2016.
Order of Narrative-
Pace- The pace will be quiet slow for the 1900s and quite quick for 2016.
Special effects- The special effects will be mineral as it then will better matched to
the genre.
10. Character Representation
• The women will be seen as opposites.
• Both women will be from London and white.
• The 1900s women will seem quiet weak and quiet however it the end
will be powerful.
• The 2016s women will be a hard headed business women and seen as
very powerful.
13. Shot Ideas
Some Suffragettes handcuffed
themselves to railings and broke shop
windows in order to get the police to
arrest them.
14. Budget
• Our budget for our film is - £300,000.
• We have a low budget for our film because there are not going to be
many special effects or elaborate costumes. However, we do need to
film in several locations.
15. Titles
Simple, white titles.
•Production Companies
•Cast
•Crew (camera, editing, music, costume designer, make-up, production designer)
•Distribution Companies
•Director
Film Opening (Charlemagne Std)
FILM OPENING (ADOBE MING STD L)
FILM OPENING (VIJAYA)
FILM OPENING (MONOTYPE CORSIVA)
FILM OPENING (CHAPARRAL PRO LIGHT)
16. Suffragette Facts
• nineteenth century women had no place in national politics.
• A woman's role was seen to be child-rearing and taking care of the
home.
• From 1848 to 1920, thousands of women in the United States fought
to attain the same civil and political status as men, including the all-
important right to vote.
• only women who were householders over the age of 30 (6 million
women) got the vote in 1918; women over 21 did not get the vote
until 1928.
• The motto of the Suffragettes was 'Deeds not words’
17. Production Company
• We chose film 4 production as are production company.
• This is because company makes a lot of documentary and factual
films.
• We chose film 4 as this makes films with the most similar genre to
what film we are making.
• This will be in partnership with are own production companies.
18. Distribution Company
• We chose Pathé.
• This is because it has distributed a lot of smaller films however a lot
are more factual or historical.
• This means it matches our film type.
19. Advertising and Target Audience
• Social media- Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, You tube.
• Buses- posters.
• Trailers on You Tube and TV Channels like MTV.
• Our film we be made a 12. This because some of the scenes with the
suffergetes may disturb younger children.
20. Other Ideas
• Crime Drama – someone is murdered in an alleyway and a women
finds them and calls the police. The police then come and begin to
examine the scene. Mystery about who committed the murder.
• Family film – a girl gets ‘sucked’ into a game and has to try and
escape.
• Period Drama – Pre-WW1. A girl has a baby and is abandoned by her
parents. Her friends travel with her to try to find somewhere to live
in a place where they are not known by anyone.
