The Pitch

In the pitch we talked about,

4 ideas outline

Main story outline in more detail, showing good development and discussion of events leading to final scenes

main character outline - you should know them as well as you know yourself. detail personality, likes, dislikes, appearance, job, etc

ideas for location to use

rough idea of opening sequence structure

discussion of how genre can be identified through the opening sequence

Idea 1 :-

Business type guy, late 20s gets home after a months business trip abroad and comes back to an empty, cold, dark, desolate house (so cold he can see his own breath). Noises start to eminate from the kitchen and so he walks in (lights arn't working in kitchen) and he can see its been trashed and food from the fridge is all over the floor. He ventures up stairs to find his room light on with the television on and the shower is running. He then hears a noise coming from the landing so he runs out and looks into one of the spare rooms. Then its a colse up of half his face and the landing and the stairs. The camera angle then changes to the persons point of view coming up the stairs, so the camera is wobbley to imitate movement whilst walking up the stairs and walks up behind him and wacks his round the head, but just that instant the screen goes blank and credits start. The we cut to a flash back of him leaving his house where its all warm, cosy and lit up well (complete contrast to the house at the start, but still the same house). He is leaving the house for his sister to take care of. After he leaves she locks the door and walks up stairs and turns the television on and turns the shower on. thilst getting ready she hears broken glass at the front door. Panicing, she runs into one of the spare rooms and waits till what ever it is comes up the stairs. When the thing is not on the landing she runs up to the bedroom on the top floor (convention of a horror where they run up the stairs instead of down) when the person is in one of the other rooms she manages to creap down stairs and grab a weapon to hit the thing with. She then makes her way up the stairs with it and wake the person with it and the screen goes blank once again.

Idea 2 :-

A boy and a girl are having an argument and the girl eventually dumps him. He is clearly upset and goes out for a walk through the park(at night). When he is walking he sees a load of odd looking people sitting on the bench, he walks on further to find a newpaper with the headline "Inmates Escape From Asylum, STAY INDOORS!!". He decides to walk back home and the group that was by the bench before have now gone. When getting back to the house he hears his girlfriend scream bloody murder, and starts to run back into the house. As he is running he hears giggling and laughter. He finds his girlfriend and finds shes dead. He bends down towards her and is wacked round the head. Then the scene cuts to the boyfriend tied to a chair unconcious.

Idea 3 :-

Bomb hits a village in war using nuclear bombs. The radiation turns most the villagers into zombies with gas masks. They get their revenge by killing survivers from the village by sucking their blood in true zombie style and taking their souls from their body.

Idea 4 (main idea) :-

It starts off as an average school day, students arrive to class on time at 9am. In the first shot we see all the students walking into the class room. The teacher says they're going to watch a 10min film on the projector. The lights go out. Once the lights have been put back on, one of the pupils (Nicholas JT Abdul) has been murdered by being stabbed and is lying in blood on the table at the back of the class. The whole class is in shock and are being questioned by police, there is no trust among the class mates as it could of been any one of them.