1. The Diary of a Captive
Genre: Teen Drama / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
2. • Summary: A girl is kidnapped and is held
hostage and the audience listens to the story
of her life which is told from her diary /
perspective.
• The diary reveals that the antagonist of the
story is the girl’s teacher and the audience is
shown flashbacks of the teacher watching the
student during school
3. Production Company
We decided to use Film 4 as
our production company
because of the influence of
our film being a teen drama
/ suspense / thriller genre.
Our film could be
compared to “The Lovely
Bones” which was
produced by Film4.
Film4 are also known to do
teen dramas aswell such as
“Inbetweeners Movie”.
4. Box office of our supporting films
Budget
$65,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$116,616 (USA) (13 December 2009) (3 Screens)
£1,637,579 (UK) (21 February 2010) (420 Screens)
Gross
£6,193,167 (UK) (21 March 2010)
£5,885,305 (UK) (14 March 2010)
£5,183,763 (UK) (7 March 2010)
£3,848,574 (UK) (28 February 2010)
£1,637,579 (UK) (21 February 2010)
$93,621,340 (Worldwide) (5 January 2013)
Budget
£3,500,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend
$35,955 (USA) (9 September 2012) (10 Screens)
£13,200,000 (UK) (23 August 2011) (475 Screens)
Gross
$35,955 (USA) (9 September 2012)
£41,800,000 (UK) (20 September 2011)
Weekend Gross
$35,955 (USA) (9 September 2012) (10 Screens)
5. Distributor
We decided Universal Studios after
another film which has influenced us
which is called “A Beautiful Mind”.
Despite Universal Studios releasing
this film which is a big influence to
us, it has also released other films
with the same genre.
These include films such as:
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Safe House
• Mama
7. Possible Actors (Female)
Emma Watson
• Perks of being a
Wallflower.
• Harry Potter series.
Chloe Moretz
• Kickass
• Carrie
• 500 Days of Summer
Jennifer Lawrence
• Hunger Games
• House end of the
street
8. Possible Actors (Male)
Ethan Hawk
• Sinister
• The Purge
• Total Recall
Robert Jenkins
• Cabin in the woods
• Dear John
Gary Oldman
• Harry Potter series
• The unborn
• Dark Knight trilogy
9. What the film is REALLY about
• The girl is
diagnosed with
schizophrenia
and the teacher
is not what he
has been
deceived as. She
has been kept in
a mental asylum
and has not
actually been
abducted.
