Pitch

1. Clear idea for a film
The film starts off with a young girl running to the toilet, she is being sick. At this point in time we do not know what is wrong with her. She starts getting ready for college; brushing her teeth, washing her face, putting on her clothes. She leaves to college. At college she sits alone at the bench. This is when we find out that this girl does not have friends. The next thing that happens is the girl going home. She starts calling out for her parents but she finds a note from them saying that they will be away for a while because they have gone to sort out something at work. This is when we find out that this girl does not have her parents to support her. The girl then opens the fridge and with a disappointed facial expression she takes out the cake and takes it up to her room. The next scene is her sitting alone crying eating the cake. Eventually she gets frustrated about being alone she wants to run away from her world so she runs out of the house. She then runs into another girl, they both freeze and look at each other. At this point the whole thing rewinds back to the beginning of the film.
This is where we are introduced to the other girl. The first shot is her waking up, looking at her phone. There is a picture of her and her boyfriend as the wallpaper; we see a tear drop on the phone screen. This girl also starts preparing for college. In her room we see drugs on the table. This is when we find out that she has a drug problem. She gets to college. At break she is alone; this is when we find out that she also is alone. In a background we see the first girl sitting on a bench alone. Similarly this girl also goes back after college, nobody is at home. She also doesn’t have anybody there for her. She turns on sad music, starts crying, starts consuming the drugs on her table. She looks up and sees a picture of her and her boyfriend, she spits out the drugs. At this point she also wants to run away from her reality because she knows she shouldn’t be doing what she’s doing now. She runs out of the house and runs into a girl. They freeze and look at each other. They only say one sentence “this needs to stop”. .



2. An idea for a poster to sell the movie
We came up with two ideas for our poster. The first idea of the poster is:
• Portrait orientation, the top of the poster contains of critical acclaims from newspapers and magazines. Underneath there is our title “Breaking Point”, below that we have a shot from the movie where the two girls look at each other; it’s a side view of them. Below that we have our tag like “It can only get worse before it gets better”. Under that we have the small print; name of the actors, directors, editors etc. And in the left bottom corner we have the certificate 15.

3. Target audience
The target audience for our movie are people aged between 15 and 25 because those people would be most likely to relate to the characters’ issues and daily struggles as they might face them or know someone who does. Also because those people have more time to watch movies. Moreover we target at a lower social class as that involves college and university students and unemployed. This movie is also aimed at people who enjoy watching social drama. Although we aim at both genders, we have a greater aim at the female audience as they are more likely to enjoy social drama movies and are more likely to relate because the main characters are females.

4. Generic Profile
The genera of our film is social drama. It has typical conventions of a social drama through; the story line. In most social dramas we see that the person who has some sort of problems usually is lonely and doesn’t have a good relationship with parents. Some of the props that we use like drugs and phone are also typical of this social drama because they are used in everyday life for some people. Another contribution to the generic profile is the locations used. We mainly use college and the house. These are also locations visited by people every day and seem realistic to the genera. Also the music we are going to use is a sad combined with tension type of music.

5. Consideration of narrative theory (Todorov)
Our film goes against the Todorov’s equilibrium theory. Usually movies will start off with equilibrium then there would be a distribution and by the end a new equilibrium would be created. However there is no equilibrium in our movie, it starts off with a distribution which is the girl running to the bathroom to be sick. The new equilibrium is when the girl runs into the other girl at the end.

6. Key representation issues
Our film shows a negative representation of the gender, age and social class. As most of people do not have those types of issues in every day to day life. Most 17 year old females from a lower social class do not take drugs, do not suffer from bulimia and are not lonely.


7. Description of how the film will look and sound like
• Camera: variety of shots will be used like point of view, worm’s eye view, long shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up. Also there will be movements like tracking and hand held shots.
• Editing: The editing of the film will be simple, consisting mostly of straight cuts. However we will also use some fades. We will also use an editing to rewind the film backwards. We will also use a light tint of blue to make the movie look more like a drama typical film.
• Sound: We will be using variety of sounds like diegetic and non-diegetic sound, also diegetic on and off screen. We will have dialogues and background music. Also we will be using songs played on the radio.
• Mise-en-scene: The main setting of the film will be in two houses. We will also be shooting in college quad where everybody goes out for lunch and road on the way and where the two characters run into each other. We will be using high key lightning to represent the realism of the movie. Our characters will be wearing jeans, t-shirts and trainers. They will be both moving around in a distressed way, slower movements. Their facial expressions will be withdrawn from the whole society and upset.