Film pitch task

1. White River
By Jack Bezant and Sarah Olivier

2. Cast
• Douglas Booth-Brother
• Emily VanCamp-Sister
• Morgan Freeman-Head of the Agency
• Terence Stamp-Villain

3. Plot/Narrative
The US Government has
created a secret agency
dedicated to training
orphaned children to
become assassins.
They are faced with several
challenging situations whilst on
this mission and ultimately have to
resort to instinct as well as their
world class training.Ultimately they foil the plan
but there is a slight twist to
the plot at the end…
They are an inseparable
team and are the best in
the agency. When they
complete all of their
training they are tasked
with the biggest
assignment-to foil a
master plan devised by a
ruthless villain.
The plot follows Ethan and
Alyssa Scott, a brother and
sister who’s parents died in
car crash when they were
young. They were recruited
into the agency soon after
this.
The government code
name for this agency is–
White River.

4. Suitability to Our Audience
• We were given the target audience of teen boys.
• We decided to target out film to 13-17 year old boys.
• Our film will appeal to our audience because it contains: violence,
explosions, good vs. evil and a pretty woman. All of these elements
appeal to a teenage boy because they attend the cinema to watch
fights, explosions and expensive cars; all of which are featured in our
film.

5. Enigma Codes
• One enigma code in our film is the movie’s title itself. The name is
very ominous and vague which makes the reader wonder what is
‘White River’? The title plays into the plot’s theme of this secret
agency in the government as it is elusive and inconspicuous.

6. Genre Conventions
Action
 Violence
 Explosions and chases
 Good vs. Evil
 Death of loved ones
 Weapons- knives, guns etc.
 Mission waiting to be completed
Our Film
 Fights and confrontation
 High speed chases and several
explosions
 Brother and Sister vs. Villain
 Death of their parents
 Trained using guns and knves etc.
 They have to complete a mission
and save their country.

7. Marketing
• We plan to market our film around the concept of Ethan and Alyssa
training to become assassins and battling a villain together.
• We aim to use a small trailer campaign to attract the bulk of our
audience. As well as this, we aim to use social media to attract our
young target audience.
• We will use applications such as Twitter and Snapchat to attract our
youth. We will set up accounts which will update our audience on
release dates and show small teaser clips before it is released. We
hope that this can attract a mass audience of 13-17 year olds.

8. Institution
The film production company that are the
most likely to produce our film would be
20th Century Fox.
This is due to the fact that they have
produced several huge movies in the past
couple of years. As well as this, the types
of films they produce are very similar to
ours so we would fit nicely into their
company.
Not only this but our film will probably
need a relatively large budget in order to
fulfil our vision, so a big production
company would be the more viable
economic path.

9. What Makes Our Film Unique?
• Our film is different to other spy-action films because the two main
characters are a brother and sister. This type of sibling relationship is
rarely seen in action films because one man or woman usually
dominates the usual type of character.
• Also the aspect of showing their training throughout the agency is
usually not featured in films. As well as this, their training is
completed together which is also different. They are a team rather
than individuals.