Planning - Film Trailer Initial Ideas

Contradiction A2 Film: Initial Ideas and Planning

USP:

•       What makes our film trailer unique compared to other crime thriller trailers is that we have a strong female lead as the detective; we did this in order to challenge thriller conventions as they usually have male lead roles and female roles are usually just secondary characters.

•      We also have a young male as one of the lead roles, we wanted a large age gap of the lead roles because they will have different life experiences and different perspectives in life. By having two different ages in the film, this may attract an older and a younger audience.

•      These are two actors who are the inspirations for our lead characters, FBI agent Dana Scully from X-Files and Cartoonist Robert Graysmith from Zodiac.

Target Audience:

•      Males and females aged 18-30

•      Thrillers appeal to young adults, due to their complex narratives, violence, gore etc.

•      Crime thrillers are usually rated 15 at the lowest, this is because of the violence, sexual references and many other things. So a crime thriller film would be inappropriate for anyone below the age of 18.

•      Our film trailer will be rated 15, as there will be violence and gore as expected with most crime thriller films.

Plot:

·         A family murder occurs in Cambridgeshire.

·         Only one survivor is left in each murder as the murders continue.

·         It’s been 10 years since the last murder and a man was imprisoned all those years ago by detective Maria Jones, but now the homicides are happening again and so someone has been falsely accused and imprisoned for a decade.

·         Detective Jones must start all over again from the beginning to catch the real killer in order to preserve and protect her reputation of her career.

·         Young journalist and photographer Peter Stone arrives at the most recent crime scene to find out information and take pictures to get a story, he meets and attempts to speak to detective Jones.

·         Peter begins to ask Detective Jones a series of questions and is determined to find out more and they end up working together to find the real killer.

·         Peter manages to figure out the killers next target is and tries to tell detective Jones, however she thinks he’s wrong and dismisses what he has to say so he goes on his own to find him.

·         Peter arrives at the next targets house and tries to help a dying victim, the killer is still there and frames peter for the crime, the trust is lost between Peter and detective Jones.