This film pitch proposes a drama about a female mental illness patient in a mental hospital. The opening scenes will feature slow, melancholy music to convey the patient's emptiness. Little dialogue is planned to build mystery around why the patient is hospitalized and what events led her there. The film will be shot in a replicated hospital room with a window to suggest the patient's mood through rain effects. Themes of anxiety, loneliness, and emptiness will be explored through the character's solemn atmosphere and dulled color palette to intrigue audiences and make them want to learn the patient's story. The target audience is 15-24 year olds who may relate to or find original a story about a teenage mental illness patient.

1. FILM PITCH

2. WHAT GENRE IS IT?
• For my film pitch I have decided to develop an idea of a mental illness patient. This idea will
portray the genre of a Drama. Throughout the opening scenes of this film, there will be slow,
frail music to emphasise the emptiness of the patient. Not much will happen in the first few
scenes as in real films, the story is given away in the first few minutes. The simplicity of the film
will have a bigger effect than trying to overcomplicate the scenes. Due to the patient being in a
mental hospital, it will release a lot of enigma codes for our audience to have questions of their
own and want to continue watching the film.

3. WHO/WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
• My film pitch is about a female mental illness patient, in a mental hospital. The patient is empty,
she has no facial expressions and shows no emotion whatsoever. She is so silent to the extent
where it feels as though she is looking straight through anyone that is attempting to have a
conversation with her; there is no getting through to her. This will be shown by the patient
having visitors who they to comfort her by saying things like ‘It’s over now, they cant hurt you
anymore.’ I feel like this conversation needs to occur in my film to raise questions from the
audience such as ‘Who’s hurt her? How has she been hurt? Why is she in a mental hospital?
These enigma codes will make the audience want to continue watching the film. The film would
then go on to guide the audience through the story of the patient by showing why she is in the
hospital and the events that happened up until this point.

4. WHERE IS IT SET?
• My film pitch will be set in a hospital room then our group will have taken time to replicate. We
will look into filming in a room that is as close to a hospital room as we can, but as we know we
would not be able to use an actual hospital room. The room will have a sad atmosphere.. I am
going to use a room with a window in which we can film when it is raining in order to create
pathetic fallacy when the weather suggests the mood. Although I know it will be difficult to film
when it is raining because we cannot predict the weather but we can always create rain and
also use foley to make the sound of rain. In the room there will be a bed and a few chairs and
that is it, if we were to include anything else it would not give the feel of a realistic mental
hospital room as they are quite empty and boring.

5. WHAT ARE THE THEMES?
• The themes of my film will include anxiety, loneliness and emptiness within a patient. I
want to create an solemn atmosphere by adding effects with music and foley. I also want to
dull down down the colour of the footage we will record when editing to give it more of the
effect i have in mind. I want the themes in the film to be mystery… I want the audience to
ask questions about the film such as; What has happened to he patient for her to end up in
a mental home? I will use lots of enigma codes to intrigue the audience.

6. WHY WAS THE TARGET AUDIENCE WANT/PAY TO
SEE IT?
• The main target audience for my film will be 15-24 year old as i feel this is the target
market that will feel intrigued by it as the main character in my film will be about 17/18
therefore they could possibly relate to it in some ways.
• I think that the target audience will pay to see my film because it is original and not the
cliche ‘horror’ film that everyone does for their films. The simplicity of my film and the
opening scenes is what will make my target audience want to carry on watching my film. I
am not going to try and over complicate my film so it appears the best, the simplicity of it
will make it so good.

7. INSPIRATION
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• I got the inspiration for my film through other students typically choosing to make films of a
horror/thriller genre or a romantic comedy. I wanted our film to stand out. I also got
inspiration of the simple/effective stye of the film from watching other students film tasks
and analysing where they went wrong. I noted that the films that didn't try to hard and
focused more on their titles/sound/editing scored the highest marks.