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.