This pitch introduces the narrative of my brand new short film 'Jade'.

1. A2 Media
Studies:
Short Film Pitch
Kieran Morris

2. Film Genres I Enjoy
Watching…
Comedy: I enjoy watching comedy films as they provide humour and
entertainment and allow audiences to escape from the problems of the real
world.
Drama: Social Realist/Drama films are enjoyable as they provide an insight
into characters lives and reflect on social problems.
Action: These movies are often the most exciting to watch as they tend to
involve tense fight scenes, spectacular stunts and an intriguing narrative.

3. Film Genres I Enjoy
Watching…
Fantasy: Unrealistic films including fantasy are enjoyable to watch as they
often feature interesting characters that don’t live in the ‘normal’ world – i.e.
vampires.
Family/Animation: These films are enjoyable as they allow families to
escape from the current world. Whilst narratives are easy for children to
understand, they also include funny scenes that intrigue older audiences. They
also bring back childhood memories, feelings and emotions.
Musicals: Film adaptations of musical theatre are exciting to watch and sing
along to.

4. Drama and Social-Realism
I have decided that my short film is going to be a drama and will reflect social
problems in modern-day life.
What is Social-Realism?
Drama/Social-Realism films are a realistic depiction of contemporary society
and usually reflect a social issue – i.e. poverty, drug addiction, gun crime.
Social-Realism, Crime and Poverty:
Crime and Poverty are common themes throughout many social-realist films
and links are often made to drugs, gang culture or prostitution. This is due to
the stereotypes in our society that suggest those that are involved in crime
usually come from poor backgrounds and are therefore stuck in a ‘cycle of
poverty’.

5. My Short Film Narrative
Title: Jade
This film title has been used as it’s the name of the protagonist character. Jade
is also a light-greenish colour which connotes nature, linking to one of the main
settings of the film – in a woodland.
Synopsis: Jade is a 17 year old girl who lives with her sister Millie and her
mum. Jade has been keeping a secret from her family for quite a while. She’s a
lesbian. Jade finally becomes courageous enough to tell her mum, but she later
discovers she has died in a car crash. Millie and Jade comfort each other until
Millie gives Jade a letter – it’s from her mum. What does the letter say? How
will Jade react?
Themes / Social Issues: Homosexuality, Adoption, Bereavement, Love,
Friendship

6. Plot Outline
• Jade is living a positive lifestyle with her mum and her sister, Millie.
• Jade is keeping the secret of being a lesbian. She fancies a girl names
Cara.
• Jade writes a letter to her mum to tell her she is a lesbian. She leaves it on
the fireplace.
• Jade and Cara kiss but are then interrupted by a phone call from Millie.
• Jade has to go home to see a Family Liaison Officer who later informs Jade
and Millie that their mum has died in a car crash.
• Jade and Millie comfort each other in the woodland.
• Millie gives Jade a letter from her mum. It reveals that Jade was in fact
adopted when she was two years old.

7. Plot Outline
Why will this plot work?
I believe that my narrative will work as the themes of adoption and
bereavement will influence the audiences thoughts and make them feel
empathic towards the characters. The theme of bereavement will be a huge
struggle in some part of everyone’s lives and therefore will intrigue the
audience into watching the film.
Homosexuality will also support the film as younger audiences are now
becoming more understanding and accepting of the LGBT community. Even if
audience members aren’t homosexual themselves, they will have a greater
understanding of the feelings and emotions gay/lesbian people go through
before ‘coming out’; thus creating further feelings of empathy. This will therefore
support the change in social attitudes and hopefully would influence more
people to be accepting of others.

8. Sources of Inspiration
In order to create a detailed narrative, I have used many sources of Inspiration:
• Glee: Santana and Brittany are initially secretly lesbians.
• Hollyoaks: Harry hides his sexuality from his parents who are later
supportive. Another storyline also includes the death of a transgender
character after they just reveal to their dad there sexuality.
• Tracy Beaker: The children that live in the ‘Dumping Ground’ are all in
foster care and are devastated by the loss of their biological parents. They
are often looking for answers as to why they are who they are.

9. Three Influential Short Films
I also used other Short Films that I completed research tasks on, to influence
my own narrative:
• Slap: The narrative follows a boxer who is secretly transgender. They reveal
this to their partner who is upset by this. This inspired the idea of having a
homosexual character who is worried about coming out to their parents and
how the relationship will be affected for the rest of their lives.
• I Don’t Care: Whilst the main narrative of the lifestyle of a disabled child
doesn’t link to my narrative, the film does use the themes of friendship and
love and inspired my ideas of having a strong family relationship which is
then broken.
• Volume: The film follows a young man who struggles to come to terms with
his girlfriends death. Whilst this isn’t similar to my narrative, the themes of
death and bereavement occur and therefore relationships between
characters in my film are affected. I also like the nature theme created in
Volume, which inspired my idea of a rural area being used as a teenage
‘hang-out’ – contrasting from the stereotypes of teenagers being in urban
areas.

10. Potential Target Audience
Age: Teenagers are mainly the target audience as they will have the greatest
understanding of the main character’s (Jade) feelings and emotions. They are
also the most accepting age group of the LGBT community.
Gender: Despite the main character’s being mostly female, male audiences
may also wish to watch the film so they have a better understanding of the
themes of bereavement, adoption and sexuality.
Sexual Orientation: Whilst the film follows a homosexuality storyline; people
from all sexual orientations including heterosexual are able to relate to the films
narrative.
Social Class: The film aims to attract all social classes to educate people
from a variety of social backgrounds about sexuality, adoption and
bereavement. However, social classes B, C1 and C2 are most likely to be
attracted to watch the film due to their good understanding of social issues.