LAST HOPE PITCH SUMMARY
LOGLINE: An ex-private with an unspeakable history is called back into action after troops go missing. TARGET AUDIENCE: 18 to 25 year old heterosexual males who would enjoy the movie due to the action and male dominated cast. GENRE: Hybrid of drama and action ACTORS: Adrien Brody- known for many drama and action films such as The Thin Red Line and The Pianist. Joel Edgerton- an established actor who is known to play a good supporting actor. SIMILAR FILMS: The Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan. DISTRIBUTORS: FilmFour and SIDEMAN PRODUCTIONS WHERE SHOWN?: Due to the low budget and niche audience it would be shown in Art House Cinemas. An ex-private with an unspeakable history is called back into action after troops go missing. The film will be set in Europe but predominantly in the London area for the recollection and flashbacks of the main character, Lieutenant Tyler Simpson (Adrien Brody). Some of these scenes are to be shot in army bases and a dingy living room to portray the fall of the character’s life and his calling back to the army. Last Hope would appeal more to males between 18-25 due to the violent scenes and action throughout the movie as well as the dark serious narrative that seems to attract male focus more than female. Adrien Brody has been chosen to play Tyler Simpson as he is known for his grave roles in movies such as The Jacket and The Pianist. The love interest, Natasha Penn, would be Keira Knightley as she is British-born actress who is known globally and is an attractive actress for male audiences. Brody’s supporting actor, Joel Edgerton, would play Sergeant Jason Miller due to his previous roles as a supporting actor and being well known in the filming industry. Last Hope would be similar to movies such as Saving Private Ryan for the film style of war combined with drama and The Thin Red Line for similar narratives on the idea of characters lives in the army. Being a British film, we have chosen the following film companies to distribute and produce our film: FilmFour, BBC Films and British Film Institute. These companies are appropriate for our film as the funding will allow us to target our audience precisely to what they would enjoy. As the film is low budgeted and is targeted to a niche audiences who prefer to watch serious films rather than light-hearted, it would be shown in art house cinemas in case Last Hope does not reach box office standards. |
The image above is a draft that I drew so that we could get a rough image of how we wanted to film the starter for our opening scene, we pictured an establishing shot of a house (Tyler Simpsons house), on this esthablishing shot the camera would act as a bird and swoop towards the door into the house of tyler simpson.
We also had an idea of the camera going into his living room and panning around the room in a 360% showing the room in a clean state and after the pan is complete another pan of the room would take place accept this time the pan would be pan of the room in a untidy state, this would represent the before after affect of where Mr simpson is experiencing bad recollections of his past. ActorsName: Tyler Simpson
Age: 31 years Gender: Male Hair: Black Eyes: Brown Position: Lieutenant in the British Army Physical Description: He is normally seen in his camoflauge army uniform but since his discharge he shown to wear his night wear. Skill: Trained soldier- able to handle weapons and trained in various self-defence arts. History: A commended Lieutenant who fought hard for his country and saved many men. He was shot by one of his own during battle, hitting his head terribly; losing parts of his memory and has various hallucinations. |
This rough drawing is an idea of which my group thought could be the ending for our opening scene, our idea was that the main character would recieve a phonecall from someone saying 'your the best we ever had' and the camera pans up and its of the deluded Tyler simpson.
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LocationThe location of our opening film would mostly be set in Tyler Simpsons house (my house) in the living room we would have to set up two different types of scenario portraying the life of Tyler Simpson, in one scenario the living room would be clean and in the other scenario the same living room would portray a messy lifestyle of Tyler Simpsons before and his lifestyle after.
CostumesCostume that we used for our film opening were an 2 army suits and and bandages, the reason we choose the army suits was to create effective miss-en-scene and to also create an image of his past being in the army.
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