Production Pitch

Working title- Why are you the company for us?

• After extensive research into your institution we feel that you have the noticeable success with all the films you make and we would like to be part of it. Such films as hot fuzz and Johnny English are huge success in the comedy world and the most noticeable success being love actually. Working title is the subsidiary of a major conglomerate in Universal studios, which shows the competence you have in both production and distribution.

Our own research

• From our own research we have found the optimum age bracket for the type of comedy film we are making being 15 to 19, this is due to how the audience can relate to issue that is taking place. For example, a 15 year old will be able to relate even if it is not by personal experience but certainly through seeing it around people getting bullied. Not only this but because they are the same age the characters will be able to sympathise with the characters and appreciate the situation they are in.

From our individual research into the conventions of genre and form we found various good techniques which are associated with successful film comedy trailers. For example an adventure through one of the main characters lives and how they go on a journey and humour arrives from this. Within our trailer we aim to show the transformation of a unpopular boy with few friends and how he develops into a popular kid at school and how he finds the girl he has lusted over for his entire school life.

Conventions of genre and form

How will our trailer start?

• Our trailer will start with a establish shot over the house of the main character in the film with a voice over simultaneously. This will be done to give background to the main character by saying all the things he is not. The end of the first scene will show his alarm clock ring out and show a close up of his eyes opening. This is done to show he has a stereotypical life at home, but as the voice over referred to he, he doesn’t. The emphasis of the film will be to try to show the happy ending with him getting the girl and finding the social acceptance he has longed for thanks to his few semi friends.

What is are overall plan?

• We plan to show the transformation of a young boy called Gibby, this will be done by showing different example of him being bullied and shunned by the girl he likes. Following this, you will see three friends observe what is happening to him and attempt to turn his life around and help him where he is going wrong. We plan to show the adventurous nature of the film in different scenes with him going to his first house party and so on. The half conflict in the film is where after the first time he try’s to speak to the girl mid way through his transformation she ignores him accidently. This sends him back to his old habits and then shows the second journey getting back to where he was.

Possibly scenes

• One scene we decided on would be Gibby coming out of a dressing room in unfashionable clothes and three lads shaking there heads and then another scene straight after wearing fashionable clothes and the three nodding there heads. Another scene we are more than likely going to include in our trailer is him waking up which will be at the beginning of the film as well, and see him go through his daily routine and the cringe comedy that will go along with it. This will include things such as spilling food down his shirt and falling up the staires.

How will we challenge conventions

• Conventionally we are sticking fairly safe with the problem the solution the next problem whilst the solution is in action and then the overall ‘happy ending’. However, we will challenge conventions with who helps the bullied lad, usually it would be a teacher or a parent that identifies the problem and suggests that students help, but in our comedy you will see the students take the role of the parent.

Specific scene shot

The shot scene which shows Gibby waking up in the morning will be an extreme close up to show the eyes, this will show him to left third of the camera to focus the attention to his face whilst also being able to clearly see the background which is a star wars bed case showing the type of person he is.