Production team members: Beth Mann, Rachel Ford (me)
Title of production: Dark City
Genre: Neo noir, mystery
Synopsis: A teenage girl, Max, is out late and witnesses her friend getting kidnapped, but after getting no help from the police she takes matters in to her own hands, and with the help of her other friend, investigates the kidnapping herself.
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, Louise, is kidnapped by somebody. Max witnesses the kidnapping but when she tries to help she's knocked unconscious 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. So they decide to investigate further but 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. So she and Faith go back to the place of the first kidnapping to put up missing posters of Louise, but a stranger goes up to Max and starts talking to her about other people that have gone missing. Max goes to tell Faith what she had just heard but can't find her, and can't get through when she tries to call her. So she goes back to her house, hoping she will find Faith there, but gets a phone call from an unknown caller telling her to go somewhere that night if she wants to see Faith again. Max grabs a weapon to defend herself and goes out, she gets to what appears to be an abandoned warehouse. When she goes in she finds Faith and Louise together but unconscious, and the stranger from before comes out to talk to her, revealing that he took them and plans to get Max. Max takes out the weapon and the two fight, but Max manages to overwhelm him and knock him out. Making sure that her friends are okay she calls the police.
Equilibrium - Everything is back to normal after the criminals 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 mysterious 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.
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.
Locations: Birmingham City Centre, Digbeth (near the Custard Factory)
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