Production Company Name
Black Mesa Production
Title of Production
Dark City
Production Team Members
Beth (Me)
Rachel
Genre
Neo-noir/Supernatural horror
Synopsis
Our trailer is about a girl called Max that witnesses her friend being kidnapped, however after she wakes up from being knocked out by the person that kidnaps her friend, the police don't believe her so she decides to take matters into her own hands. She enlists the help of her friend Faith, and together they try to find out what is happening as more people begin to go missing. They think that all the people that have been kidnapped have some sort of connection, but they aren't sure what. They get an anonymous message telling them that they may uncover things they don't want to know, but they carry on trying to find an answer. Eventually Max decides to go where her friend and the other people were kidnapped and she waits until they take her. Once they take her to the place she manages to free herself and the others, Then she uncovers who is really behind it all.
Detailed Narrative
Equilibrium - Everything is normal before anyone is kidnapped. They are all just living their lives normally and getting on with what they need to do.
Disequilibrium - Max's friend is kidnapped by somebody. Max witnesses the kidnapping but when she tries to help she's knocked unconcious by an unknown person. When she wakes up she is confused and disorientated, and the police offer her no help and don't believe her. She gets help from her friend Faith who is skeptical about what has happened but still decide to help Max. When they begin to investigate they find out that many people have gone missing, so they decide to investigate further because they think that all of the kidnappings are connected. They are sent an anonymous message warning them to stop trying to find out what has happened because they may uncover things that they don't want to know about the situation. Max decides to ignore the warning and carries on trying to uncover the truth. She comes up with the plan to wait where her friend was kidnapped and wait until they take her. She lets them take her and acts like she;s scared until they leave her with the others. She manages to free herself and the others that were kidnapped and calls the police without the kidnappers finding out that she was doing this. When the police arrive they let Max and the others out of the locked room and find the people responsible for the kidnapping. Once the police have them, it turns out that it was teachers from the school that all of the kidnapped people attended, and they were planning to kill them all. The teachers are taken away and the kidnapped people are allowed to leave and go home.
Equilibrium - Everything is back to normal after the teachers have been arrested and put in prison. The people who were kidnapped told the police everything that happened. Everyone has gone back to how life was before it all happened, and everyone is safe.
Intended Target Audience
My target audience is young adults and teenagers who would fit within Groups C, D and E, but some may be higher. I think that my audience would be a mixture of males and females as they both enjoy this type of film. My target audience would be people who like to go to the cinema, and people who like films that have a mystery edge to them.
Key Characters
Max - Max is the main protagonist in our trailer, who is 19 years old. She usually wears regular clothes such as jeans t-shirts and hoodies.
Faith - Faith is Max's friend who helps her find out what is going on. She is also 18 years old. She dresses quite plain and average, and she wears jeans, skirts, hoodies and t-shirts. She also wears converse or vans.
The way the characters are shown is good representation of what someone of this age would wear, as younger people tend to just wear comfortable cloths as most of them are still in education so they have no reason to dress differently.
Locations
For our film trailer we will be filming in and around Digbeth as it goes well with what we are trying to achieve. As we plan to film at night we also needed somewhere quite well lit. We may also film at other locations such as school, as our characters are the age of sixth form/college students and this would be an appropriate place to film. As we plan to film in public areas and in our school we don't need to get permission to film. We will need to find a suitable place for us to fill within our locations as at some times it my be busy so it wouldn't be good for filming.
Mise-en-scene
The film should have quite a dark and gritty feel to it, to fit with the genre I am working in. To do this I will have quite dark lighting to reflect the mood of the film and also use quite unusual camera shots to make the film feel slightly uneasy, maybe by breaking the forth walk and things like that. Then to add the mysterious element of the film I plan to shot the trailer in a way that you only see glimpses of the film, like if there is a shot on someone's face then had of their face might be obsur or hidden by a shadow, to make it feel like you are only getting snapshots of the action.
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