delusion pitch for media

2. OVERVIEW
Sub genre: The sub genre of our film will be a physiological thriller as after extensive
research into thriller sub genres we decided that this would be the best one to do as
it can have a very large impact on the audience
plot of sequence: two friends will be messing around in a wood taking pictures of each
other to gain memories of their trips out. One friend blacks out and drops the
camera. After this the camera turns on and the person on the floor is pictured and
the supposed “person” taking the picture takes a picture of his shoes iswell after
this shot the camera cuts again. following this he wakes up to find that his friend is
missing and that he has blood on his hands he cannot fully reconstruct what has
happened so he begins to search for his friend. The next scene consists of the first
friend developing photos they took on the day and trying to find something that
helps him find his missing friend and why he had blood on his hands, while he is
doing this he hears the door opening in the dark room and he turns around to find
that nothing is behind him.
Themes: some of the themes we as a group thought of are, hallucinations, delusions and
mental illness although the last theme could be offensive some people we would not
make it very clear or apparent to the audience that there is actually something wrong
with the character, we would only give subtle clues that could suggest something
like psychosis for example.
Representations:

3. LOCATIONS
Interior: we will be filming one scene of our opening in
the photography dark room in the college this is
where flashbacks will trigger. This will also be where
Benjie suffers a hallucination. This is also where
Benjie will be developing the photos from the day in
the woods where Lucy went missing.
Exterior: The exterior location will be Reigate priory
woods which is a 10 minute walk from the college.
We will be filming in the daylight so we will have to
desaturate colours in the shots to create a more
thrilling mood.
Permissions: we will need permission to film in the dark
room from the photography department. But we do
not need permission to film in the woods as it is a
public area

4. STRUCTURE
Act 1: act 1 consists of the two friends in the woods messing around and taking
pictures of each other. In this act Benjie blacks out for an unknown reason.
Act 2: In act 2 the mysterious person picks up the camera in POV and snaps 2
pictures of Benjie on the floor and of his shoes. Following this Benjie wakes
up finds the camera and begins his search for Lucy because she has gone
missing.
Act 3:In this act Benjie is in a dark room developing photos from the day when
Lucy went missing. In this act Benjie hallucinates and he thinks he hears
someone entering the room.
Key dramatic Moment: The key dramatic moment is Benjie waking up and
discovering the fact that he has blood on his hands. He is unsure what has
happened and starts panicking as he cannot remember what has happened

5. REPRESENTATION: CHARACTER
Character 1: This is the main character that appears throughout most of the film
opening, his name is Benjie Teller and he is 16 years old there is something
that is wrong with him but no one seems to know what it is. He only has a
few friends but none of them are really close to him. He only has one very
close friend that he actually opens up to.
Character 2: This is the girl that Benjie is very close with and the friend that goes
missing. Her name is Lucy Mitchell and she is 16 years old. She is much
more comfortable around people than Benjie and has a more elaborate social
life than but she chooses to be friends with him because she thinks that he
is an honest person and honest people do not form a large part of her social
group.
Character 3: It is unclear if this character is a delusion in Benjie's head or in fact
a real person this is the “person” that pics up the camera and takes pictures
of Benjie on the floor and of his shoes

6. HOW?
Genre conventions: from our research we have understood that to make a
good psychological thriller the conflict has to be in the protagonists
head and that the battle in the movie has to be more mental than
physical.
Attracting target Audience:
Mood/Atmosphere creation: The atmosphere in our movie will be a sense of
uncertainty. This will be created as throughout the opening the
audience will not know if Benjie himself has done harm to Lucy because
of the blood on his hands and the fact that it is not shown how Lucy in
fact disappears.

7. HOW? MISE EN SCENE
Setting: The setting of this movie will be in a small town called
Reigate and the main part of the opening will be in the
woods.
Props – prop requests: one prop we will defiantly need is a film
camera which we have acquired from Libby in our group.
Some other minor props will be tongs, and photography
paper for the darkroom scene.
Lighting: The lighting is mostly going to be low-key to help with
the mood creation we are going to achieve this quite easily
as the woods will be quite shady and the dark room will
have a dim red light on as no other lights can be turned on.
Costume/makeup: The only make up we will really need is the
fake blood on Benjie's hands and the costumes will consist
of casual teenager type clothes e.g. jeans, chinos and
coach jackets etc.
Performance and proxemics:

8. HOW? CAMERAWORK
Genre conventions: The most used type of shot in psychological thriller is the
mid shot and the close up this is because it allows the viewer relate to the
characters. Sometimes the shots are also quite dragged on so that the
viewer can really capture the characters emotions.
POV: we will be using POV in quite a significant portion of our film opening
Particular key shots: A very important shot will be the close up of Benjie's
bloody hands and the close up of his eye this will be very important as it will
shock and confuse the audience and make the question what has happened.
Variety: In our film opening there will be a variety of shots including: close ups,
medium shots, extreme close ups, medium body shots, long shots and many
more.

9. SOUND
There will be a significant amount of dialogue in our film opening therefore
a script will be written.
We have found an artist on YouTube with a range of suspense music that is
free to use for projects etc. his name is Peder Helland and he allows the
use of his music if he is credited in the project.
We will need to record other non diegetic sounds for other elements of our
opening but there is already a very wide range on final cut pro itself.

10. POST PRODUCTION
The only SFX we have in mind so far is the shot from the camera
perspective when the “person” picks up the camera we will have to edit
the clip to make it seem as if the camera is a polaroid camera taking two
pictures of Benjie on the floor.
The titles used will most probably be credits over blank screen as this will
effectively add to the thriller genre and it will add to the uncertain
atmosphere. The titles will roll over into the film opening.
The cuts in the opening will be edited quite quickly in moments of tension
to get the audience interested and to build up a lot of tension . The
quick cuts will also be used as the audience will suspect that there is
something wrong and this will make them restless.

11. INFLUENCES FROM REASERCH
A very large influence for our film opening is the movie shutter island as it
has a similar feel to our film opening and film idea. The flashbacks in
our film where heavily influenced by the movie and it showed us how
they could effectively confuse the audience and make them question
what is real and what isn't. The main character in shutter island also
inspired our main character as he is also very secluded and hard to
figure out, our character also has a subtle problem with him that no one
can really figure out.