This document outlines a student film project about a man who was kidnapped at age 15 and found 20 years later living in a cabin. The documentary will show his poor living conditions in captivity without clothes or adequate food and water. Inspired by real cases of long-term kidnapping, the film will have an ominous tone and focus on the opening scene, conditions of the victim, and interview with him about his experience. It will target 15-year-olds and older due to disturbing content and themes of violence, crime and media portrayal.

1. MEDIA PRESENTATION
James Golumn, Aaron Bread, Harrison Fletch-support, Sophie (Gareth)
Bale

2. OUR FILM
• Our genre is Documentary
• Our film is about a case where a man has been found after many years being stuck in a
cabin. The man was kidnapped at the age of 15 then found at 35 years old.
• This is being set in a Cabin in a garden.
• The message of our film is to show how people can be kept in awful conditions without
any clothes and poor supply of food and water without anyone knowing. It shows how
horrible people can be in this world.
• The opening scene just gives a flavor of how poor this boys life was without giving details
of how he is living now and how his life is different. The opening gives a mood of Mystery
and sadness as people may wonder who brought him here and how he is going to
survive.

3. INSPIRATIONS
• A few documentaries that inspired us were:
• Ross Kemp Extreme world – This inspired us as there are many scenes if very poor living
conditions.
• The news story “Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard” also inspired us as the storyline is
similar. This was inspiring as it has police information, shots of her living conditions and
pictures of her before/after. This girl was captured when she was 11 and held for 18 years.
She was kept in a tent at the back of a garden, like our film.

4. TARGET AUDIENCE
• Our target audience is 15 and onwards, this is because of the many disturbing scenes
such as the living conditions. There are scenes of Kidnapping and also very poor living
conditions.

5. TITLES AND FONT
• The Fonts we’re going to use are Arial Black. We are using this as it ’s a serious
documentary which shows sophistication.
• The title of our Documentary is “Locked Up”. The reason for this title provides a clear
meaning to what it is about. The title will also make the audience wonder what’s been
locked up? For how Long?.

6. DISTINCT
The film will generally be a dark, gloomy atmosphere as the documentary tells a story about a 30 year old man
who’s been living in a cabin at the end of his kidnappers house for 15 years, since he was 15. The man is then
found by neighbours near by as they suspect something isn’t right about the abandoned house.
Setting-
• Empty Cabin in a garden
• House with the garden
• Drama Studio
Characters-
James Grimley- Psycho
Sophie Vale- Interviewer
Aaron Beard- Neighbour
Harrison Fletcher- Kidnapper
Themes-
• Interview
• Violence
• Crime
• Media
Textual Analysis-
Camera (Long shot of cabin, close up of the condition of psycho and walls
around him, 180 degree shot of interview, pan left to right of the inside of
the cabin, CCTV angle of cabin so he doesn’t escape).
Editing (Titles, colour, lighting, flash light)
Mise En Scene- (Costume- Ripped and dirty clothes for James, Dressing
gown & slippers for Aaron)
Sounds (Mysterious music, owls, crickets, cats meowing) – “Bring Me back
to life”.
Icons-
• Blanket
• Pictures
• Microphone

7. ,SOUND
• Sound – For sound we was thinking of using “Bring me back to life” as this song is
mysterious and sad, this links with the themes of our Documentary.