This slide show is a pitch presentation for our film Hide N' Seek

1. HIDE N' SEEK

2. SYNOPSIS
• A group of college friends find out a man is living on top of one million pounds. Their plan to
break into the mans house and steal the money goes south as they find out they're not alone.
Fighting for their lives the friends try to escape from not only the house but also the
psychological games and traps of this mind twisted millionaire.

3. KEY THEMES OF THE FILM
Psychological
Thriller
Fear Suspense
Fast pace
Action/ crime
Conflict
Psychological issues
Money
Greed
Friendship
Games/ mind games
Obsession

4. CHARACTER INFORMATION
• Charles: Charles is a millionaire, house owner and mentally unstable. He has an
unhealthy desire to trap and torture the teenage thieves who have broken into his
house. He has spent time in a psychiatric hospital due to his mental health issues.
Charles is undoubtedly very clever as he was also able to escape the psychiatric
hospital on his own.
• Mia: Is the character who follows her friends, she is uncertain and doubtful of the
robbery. This leaves her most vulnerable when she is later trapped and mentally
tortured. This is shown through her nervous facial expressions and her cautious and
uncertain body language.

5. • Olivia: Olivia is intelligent and so has the skills to organize the robbery without being caught.
However, her intelligence will be challenged when they are un-expectantly made to play a
series of psychological games. Olivia's intelligence is demonstrated through her strategic
approach to the robbery. She uses a high level of intellect and skills to rob the house.
• Emily: Is the leader of the group. She was the one who initially suggested they break in and
steal the mans money. Emily is determined to improve their lives with the money they will
get from the robbery. She is later disappointed as her dream of becoming a millionaire turns
into a nightmare. Emily's leadership is shown when she is the first person to run when
breaking into the house. The idea of breaking in was originally her idea which also
demonstrates her leadership and determination to steal the money.

6. TITLE AND OPENING SEQUENCE
Our key themes will be hinted through:
• -Flash backs of the teens thoughts and actions
that lead up to their entrapment.
• -Motives that have lead the teens to break
into the house
• -History of obsession the millionaire has for
the teens
• -Setting of the millionaire's house, the
psychiatric hospital and college.
• -First impressions of the characters
• -Genre
• -Protagonist and Antagonist

7. STORYBOARD IMAGES AND
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER FILMS
Silence Of The Lambs Storyboard for our
Opening Title Sequence

8. TARGET AUDIENCE PROFILE
• Our primary target audience will range from 16 – 24 year old's. The characters in the
film range from 16-18 years old which means a lower and more specific aged group
would relate to the characters situations increasing their chance of going to watch
the film. A phycological thriller generally includes scenes of violence and
psychological issues that may be disturbing to younger viewers. This determines our
secondary target audience.
• Due to the violent content our target audience would widen to 18-32 years old's.
Although some psychological thrillers can include violence others can include
emotional and mental conflict instead. This balances out the male and female
attraction making the target audience an equal mixture of both males and females.

9. Hobbies/interests:
(Younger target audience)
The older target audience have interest in going out with their friends and working.
Media behavior: the younger target audience will have a broad range of social media sources. This
would allow them to access the internet and so find out about the film. The younger target audience
would use their phones, iPad and laptops. However, the older, secondary audience would most likely
have less social media activity and use their phones for the internet.
• TV programmes: Pretty Little Liars, Breaking bad, The Wire, Sherlock, Dexter, The Missing.
• Films: Silence of the lambs, Fatal Attraction, Black Swan, Inception, Sixth Sense.
Meeting friends, photography, music, skateboarding

10. HOW OUR TITLE AND OPENING SEQUENCE WILL
APPEAL TO OUR TARGET AUDIENCE
• Our title and opening sequence will appeal to our target audience because of the
suspense building and thrilling elements within it which happens to be most
popular among their age group as it keeps them on interested and intrigued.
• The characters in the film have different personalities and traits. Some on
which will be relatable to our younger audience or remind the older audience
members of their past selves when they would get up to mischief with their
friendship groups.

11. QUESTIONS
If not why?
Would you watch
this film?
How could we improve our
titles and opening
sequence?
What did you like
and what didn’t
you like?
Do you think our
target audience is
right for this film?