The Pitch

Pitch

In order to aid myself in the later production of my media coursework, it was nessacary to create an idea for a short film, from which I could make myself comfortable with the various planning and development aspects required to deliver a good film.

For my potential film I have chosen to create a film named “Bermuda”. The general plot of this film is set in 1921 and based upon the idea that the entire crew and passengers onboard a cruse vessel apart from one young girl are lost during a storm within the Bermuda triangle, this ship will eventually be found by a a military cruser sent out to find them after the cruse ship lost contact with the mainland, the film will then be based upon finding out what happened based upon the information they can get from the survivor, a young girl struch with fear and no clear apparent memory of what happened.

The opening scene will take place on board the military vessel as it sails through a storm attempting to locate the lost ship. Through the storm there will then be a long shot to establish the ships light across the water and then as the military vessel closes in there will be medium shots aimed at the losst ship to show there is noone there, this will then be backed up by closes up showing the confusion of the crew, followed by an establishing shot to show them all running into their various action stations and a an action shot of the boarding party going across, where the camera will play the part of a member of this party to add to the drama of the situation. After a long search the girl is shown sat in a room clutching the remnants of a teddy bear while rocking back and forth. This will mark the end of the opening scene, which I believe by containing strong elements of mystery will grab the audiences attention.

The idea for this film takes its idea from tales of the Bermuda triangle aswell as the story of the mary celeste, which was supposedly found abandoned in  1872.

The key selling point for this film is it that it takes an unexplained superstion and then takes it to box office, almost to say this could potentially happen, so that and the great mystery behind it should attract a good amount of positive attention.

Settings: at sea, the whole film will take place on these 2 vessels