This document provides information about Cornucopia Films, Screen Gems, and details for a proposed action film featuring three female ex-government agents. Cornucopia Films is a British production company that has produced several films since 1994 and partners with Screen Gems for film distribution. Screen Gems is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures that distributes various genres of films. The proposed film follows three special agents who break away from a government program to prevent social segregation, and details are provided about each of the three main characters and an opening sequence synopsis.

2. Target Audience

3. Cornucopia Films
0 Founded in 1994 in London, by Dylan
Gaskarth, Eddie Hudson and Jenna
Pope.
0 Formed a partnership with Screen
Gems in 2008 to distribute British
films in the US.
0 In association with ‘Almost Human’
since 2009, creating make-up and
visual special effects.
0 Headquarters in Soho, London.
0 Produces motion pictures – such as
Resist (2009), Saviour (2011) and
Outpost (2008) (co-production with
Newmarket films)

4. Screen Gems
Screen Gems is a subdivision of Sony Pictures
Entertainment’s Columbia TriStar Motion Picture
Group.
‘Many of its releases are of the
horror, thriller, action, comedy and urban
genres’ -Wikipedia
Also a production company, but mostly of
American films, distributes British films in
the UK and the US.
Films that have been distributed by Screen
Gems:
0 Resident Evil franchise 0 Outpost (2008)
0 Underworld franchise 0 Easy A (2010)
0 Attack The Block (2011)

5. Genre
0 Action-Adventure
0 Espionage
Sub-Genre
0 Girls With Guns
0 Sci-Fi
Logline
3 rogue female ex-government agents
embark on a vengeful journey, but will
they be able to handle the
consequences?

8. Film Synopsis
After realising that the government
plans to redesign society, 3 special
agents break off from a top-secret
government programme in the hopes of
preventing social segregation. Once
they understand that they cannot
perform this task alone, they try to
appeal to their former comrades, giving
them only one choice:
Kill or be killed.

9. Delta
0 Age: 18
0 Role in the film: ‘The Brain’ and ‘The Decoy’.
She’s extremely intelligent even though she
doesn’t like to show it, she can deduce things
from tiny clues and she also likes to disguise
herself by wearing wigs and prosthetics and
acting as a distraction.
Character Inspirations:
0 Katherine Pierce -
Manipulative, Seductive, Strong, Survivalist
0 Hermione Granger -
Intelligent, Bossy, Brave, Hard-working
0 Sherlock Holmes -
Observant, Masterful, Ambitious, Quick-witted

10. Sierra
0 Age: 18
0 Role in the film: ‘The Muscle’ - she’s an
excellent fighter, good with weapons and very
strong. She is also intelligent, but to a
lesser extent than the others, as her main
trait is her fighting abilities.
0 Character inspirations:
Clove: Dylan Sanders: Hit Girl:
strong, violent, d good determined, not
angerous, powerful fighter, tempestuo phased by
. us, determined. blood, good
fighter, witty.

11. 0 Age: 19
Echo
0 Job: Ex government agent (gone rogue)
0 Role in the film: ‘The Ruthless’ after revenge for
the death of her family - known for being cold and
heartless, killing for no apparent reason.
0 Character inspirations:
Alice (Resident Evil) -
Level-headed, keeps her
Selene (Underworld) - A
Evelyn Salt Her cool, and ruthless. Has
cool, calm attitude and
husband gets motives, personal and for
has a hard exterior,
killed, so she often describes as moody. others. Can handle
turns on her herself, and never really
But inside, secretly she
employers. gets fussed/nervous in
has emotions locked away
stressful or scary
- able to feel affection.
situations.

12. Opening Sequence
Synopsis
Delta limping Guard sees her on She asks him for
Comes up the lift
towards the CCTV footage and help and he puts
and falls out
lift goes downstairs his gun down
Sierra tackles
him and pins him
They interrogate Delta takes off
Echo enters to the ground and
the guard wig
holds a gun to
his head
They use keycard
Guard looks at Reaction shot of
Guard gets shot to open ambiguous
keycard the girls
door

13. Opening Sequence
Conventions
0 Action sequence - fight scene
0 Dark grading
0 Guns, knives, weapons, fighting -
iconography
0 Simple fonts for titles
0 Consistent branding -
colours, fonts, motifs
0 Atmospheric music throughout
0 Fast-paced straight cuts

14. Gender
Representation
0 3 female main characters
0 Variety of personalities and strengths
0 Each one excels in their own field of
expertise
0 Not Damsels-in-Distress
0 Can take care of themselves
0 Feminine but doesn’t deduct from their
strength and dominance
0 They do what needs to be done - not
cowardly

15. Ethnicity
Representation
0 Significant lack of female Asian
action heroines
0 Female ethnic minorities aren’t
usually protagonists
0 Supporting characters - usually for
comic relief or tokenism
0 Usually the ones who turn evil/die -
Rain Ocampo (Resident Evil)
0 Almost always portrayed as victims and
needing to be saved

16. Opening sequence
technologies and techniques
0 Using LiveType for our titles
0 Sound FX - gunshot, elevator noise,
body impact
0 Make up - gunshot wound
0 Continuity editing - shooting and
editing the tackle effectively
0 Editing to music
0 Visual FX - gunshot
0 Grading - making it look dark,
dystopic and foreboding

17. Work we did last term
0 Representation of ethnicity and gender
0 Continuity
0 Preliminary exercise
0 Roland Barthes Five Codes: enigma,
action, semiotic, cultural, symbolic
0 Propp’s Character Theory
0 Todorov’s Narrative Theory

18. Interviewer: So, why do you
write these strong female
characters?
Joss Whedon: Because you’re
still asking me that question.