Planning - Pitch

Main Task: Pitch

Task: 2 minute opening to a film.

Title: Catch a Convict.

Genre: Drama (Prison Film)

Locations: L Block (3rd Floor): Prison. Car park near the P.E. Block. Basketball courts. School grounds.

Time Period: During the day (school day)

Characters: Escape Convict, Prison Guard, Escape Convict's Brother.

Plot Outline: A lethal prisoner who's guilty of manslaughter has escaped a life sentence from a maximum security prison. Once he escapes, he therefore goes on the run, desperate to find his long lost brother because his brother is the only other member left of his family because the rest of their family have been dead for several years. He decides to hide out in local church, but when he enters, he unexpectedly finds his brother praying not knowing that his brother was Catholic. For the first time in 20 years, he speaks to his brother telling him what has happened and why he's found him. He then begs and asks for his brother if he can work at his brother's company producing road tyres. His brother agrees to give him a job. When the convict eventually settles into his new job, relatives of people that the convict has killed in the past start to come after him wanting him out of the city.

Target Audience: Ages 15 and over.
                               Anybody who likes prison drama's.

Mise en scene: Escape Convict: Prisoner's uniform.
                           Prison/Security Guard: Security Guard Uniform.
                           Escape Convict's brother: Coat, work tie, shirt, work trousers, smart shoes.
                           Seating in the Church (Assembly Hall)
                           Classroom: Being used as the prison cell, that the convict breaks out from.
                           Assembly Hall: Being used as the church which the convict finds his brother.
                           Whistle: Used by the prison guard at the escaped prisoner to alert the
                           escape

Camerawork: Establishing shot: To show the prison that the prisoner is held in.
                         Tilt up shot: To show the prisoner breaking free from the prison and to show
                         the convict entering the church.
                         Medium close up shot: To show the emotions of the prisoner when he breaks
                         out of prison. To show the emotions of the convict's brother when he looks at 
                         him with amazement after calling his name.
                         Crab shot: This can be shown when the convict walks towards his brother.
                         Close up shot: To show the convict getting the sense of freedom and a new
                         future when he escapes from prison.
                         Also to show the reaction of the prison guards' emotions while blowing his
                         whistle at the escaped prisoner.
                         Shot reverse shot: To show him walking in the church and then with his 
                         brother.
                         Match on Action: Shows him and his brother walking out of the church.

Music: Dramatic theme music (copyright free)



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