Pitch

Pitch

Working Title: The Man With The Wooden Shadow

Genre: Mystery Thriller

Length: 90minutes, get to the climax quicker so viewers don’t become bored and disconnected from the film. If the film is too long the viewers will think the film Is tedious and will lose connection to the characters.

Audience: People interested in mystery thriller 15-24years old, we think this is an appropriate for the film because younger audiences might not understand the context of the film. E.g why the girl can see the man but the guy can’t.

Story Line:

There are two friends(Charlotte and Josh)on their way home and they’re are late so they decide to take the short cut through the wood and they begin to start running through the woods as its going dark. The Charlotte begins to get to involved in the running believing it has become a game. Josh starts to become short of breath and is struggling to run and keep up with the pace of his friend. She becomes very excited by what she thinks has become a game. Getting lost in the game she goes the wrong way and ends up running into an open field where she stops suddenly in her tracks. She embraces the air and all the sounds around her spinning with her head back and arms out. All of a sudden there is a block on all the beautiful sounds she is hearing. There is music which begins to create a mysterious era and her eyes are fixed on one point across the field there is a black figure standing bone still, with his hood up and face barely visible, by now the moon has come out and nights fallen. The moon is lighting up the small amount of flesh that we can see on the characters face, a shadow is fallen across the rest of his face. Finally, Josh has caught up with Charlotte and he walks slowly up by her side, still out of breath, he bends over leaning on his knees and says,

“what are you looking at?”
Charlotte doesn’t reply.

Josh says, “you went the wrong way, Charlotte we need to leave.”

He stands and waits for her however she doesn’t move. He says

“what are you doing, we’re going home.”

Without moving a muscle, she says,

“no wait”

Her eyes still locked on the figure, she starts to slowly walk towards the black figure in the distance. Her friend stares very confused at her. The figure in the distance turns around and walks into the wood, she screams,

“WAIT” at him and starts to run. Josh shouts to her,

“there is nothing there and we need to leave now.”

She turns towards her friend and says,

“No. He was there, I saw him.” Charlotte starts to toss and turn franticly looking for the figure. Her friend pulls on her arm several times and pulls her back towards the woods. He says, “We needs to go, right now!” She reply’s with “Okay” still looking back she is guided back to the woods.

Textual Analysis On 'Se7ven'

The opening sequence of 'Se7en' uses extreme close up shots to create a sense of disorientation, they have used this to make the audience find things more difficult to understand and make sense of. The quick cuts to make the opening foreshadow the rest of the film and how it will be a mysterious story. The low angle shots of the detectives show the dominance between them, the two characters change positions through out the scene to show the domination of the conversation at  different points.

In terms of editing the cuts of Morgan Freeman on his own in one place then another, gives the audience an idea of his life and maybe also how he feels. When the shot cuts to him alone in his house, the lighting helps to create a more depressive mood. The lighting is dark and low, implying how he feels, and also how he keeps to himself.

The storm which is heard outside Morgan's window when he is in bed could symbolise how he feels. The sounds all tend to have a melancholy feel about them, and all the scenes that Morgan is in are either dark, have poor lighting or rainy which quite strongly foreshadows the setting for the rest of the film, it makes the viewer subconsciously aware of the dark nature involved within this thriller.

In the scene where Morgan is laid in bed with the storm happening out side of his window, there is a metronome which clicks and a sequence which could represent the organisation within his life and how he feels in control even if he lonely. The way that the lighting, sound, mise-en-scene and camera angles, and editing all work together in this scene to create a sense of sadness, loneliness, organisation but also catastrophe makes this scene very empowering for the representation of the character that Morgan Freeman plays because he is not made out to be a happy person throughout any of the opening sequence. This automatically starts questions being asked about he motives and also what he has experienced. During the titles there is repetition of organisation and order in the person life who we haven't being introduced to yet, the audience make connect these two people as either the same or having something in common. I think the significance of Morgan's character being shown in  negative way before any other character is  because he somehow links to this other character who we don't see (the murder).