2. HEROES BOOK
INTO A FILM
I have chosen to create an adaptation of Heroes the book by Robert
Cormier into a film
I have chose to make Heroes into a film because it won’t work as
well if I made it into a TV series
The book only has three main characters so it would be easy to cast
three actors
The filing location won’t be a problem because it is set on two or
three locations
One of the locations is a village in France and a battle filed
The third location is French town in America. Instead of filming in
the actual town we will create a set to use
The film will last for 1.30
3. NARRATIVE AND
PLOT
The story it told in the present
However it has lots of flash backs. It has flashbacks so the audience can see and under stand
why the character is the way he is and also why he wants to carry out his mission
The film only has one storyline, it also has a lot of subplots to build it up
The film is about a boy called Francis who grows up in Frenchtown, his Mother and Father
has died. He lived with a woman called Mrs. Blende. He is now 18. He went to war but got his
face blown off by a grenade
In the film he has flash backs to when he was 15 and a famous man called Larry LaSalle
moved to Frenchtown and everyone loved him
He had a girlfriend called Nicole Reared
When Larry came back from the war the locals threw a party for him. Larry and Nicole
stayed after the party and he raped her. Francis found out and felt guilty so he went to war to
try and get him self killed
All he managed to to is get his face blown off
In the present he goes to visit Nicole who now lives in New York and that’s when the story
ends
4. GENRE
The genre of the film is a historical drama
It is period drama because it is set in WWII
Its a drama because it is realistic film about WWII and it is not a
fantasy
This movie is a realistic movie about realistic events that could
have happened to a boy in WWII
5. CHARACTERS IN
THE BOOK AND FILM
young Nicole -
older Nicole – Keira Knightly/Gemma Arterton
young Farces -Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Older Francis -
young Larry – David Tenant
Older Larry
Mrs Blenda – Maggie Smith/
Arthur Rivier – Robert Patios
Joey LeBlanc – Asa Butterfield
Enrico Rucell
Francis Mom -Helena Bonham Carter
Francis Dad – Simon Pegg
Drug store owner – Colin Firth
Mother/Sister (teacher) – Julie Andrews
Uncle Louis – Ben Kingly
Married couple – Rupert Grint and Kimberly Nixon
6. SET AND
LOCATIONS
Wreck center
St Jude’s club
School
Mrs Blenders tenement
Larry LaSalls tenement
Nicole’s house
Village
Battle filled
Street in France
London street
Hospital in London
7. TARGET
AUDIENCE
The target audience are Teenagers aged between 13 to 22 (class
E)
This movie is mostly aimed at people who are studying the book
in school
I want to keep it like the book so the audience who have read the
book can visually see the emotions of what the characters go
through
Out side of education the film is aimed at females because it is a
female type of movie
The genre of the film is a historical drama
It is period drama because it is set in WWII
8. KEY SCENES
First key scene is when Francis and Nicole start dating
Second key scene is when Larry rapes Nicole
The third key scene is when Francis try's to kill him self
Fourth key scene is when Francis goes to kill Larry
9. ETHICAL ISSUE
One of the ethical issues that seems to stand in the way is that the
young boy at the age of fifteen is considering committing suicide
after a trustworthy man raped his girlfriend
This might be an ethical issue because the man is seen as a hero
and a good man
15 year old gets raped, the audience won’t see what is happening
they only hear what is happening while they are see Francis
reaction
10. FINANCE
To create this movie I will need to have a UK budget for about £20,000,000. In the
movie I wont be using CGI
It wont be any CGI so the movie look as real it can be
Instead of using CGI I will use real bombs/explosions for the battle filled scenes
I will have a set of the village made because that is regally used in the movie
However If I find a location that looks like my interruption of the village in my
mid to save money I will use that as a location
I will pay the three main actors £500 a day
The other characters will be paid £250 a day
All of the extras will be paid £50 per day
This film will take six weeks to six months to film
The budget will also include props, costumes, make-up/hair products, cast and
crew hire, cameras, lights, advertisements, copyright distribution ect
11. CINEMATIC IDEAS
It is shot with modern technology
Miss-en-scene is 1940’s style
Flashback of his life in war will have old style look as if it is real
footage from the war
When it is a flashback of his life it will be modorn
Like the Imitation game film