FIRST DRAFT - PITCH:

SHORT FLIM  ANALYSIS:

The short film that is like my idea for a short film is Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But Words Can Kill Me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRuQLyzyKt0
This is about a girl who is getting bullied and being called ugly and fat and people are telling her to kill herself.

I want to get a similar message across to the audience that words can hurt more than actions and be careful what you say to someone because it could have a very negative consequence and hurt so much that they wont to end their life.








I think this short film is effective as it gets straight into the main message behind the film and it shows that words hurt more than people realise and even through cyber bullying, saying mean things to someone could really affect their life.
I have chosen a very serious subject to aim my film at because I think everyone to be remembered to think before they speak, because it may be the last thing they say to a person, and if the person is close to them, it is worse because its worse knowing you are responsible for someone to feel disgusted in them self that they want to end their life, thinking it would be better for everyone. 

In the film the camera shots they mainly use close ups, this is to allow the audience to see the pain she is going through from the bullying, and I will also be mainly using close up shots to get the same affect through the audience.

POTENTIAL NAMES:

I have researched wedding film names to see if I could get any influences from them for my short film as it is a wedding film but also a crime film.

Original movies to potential names for my short film:
The Proposal - The Second Proposal

Made of Honour - Best MAN

The Bride Wars - Bridal War

Wedding Crashers - Wedding Secret

These are all names I could think of using names from original mainstream films. These are the films that will also influence the layout of my poster.

The Second Proposal, because the grooms brother, who the bride is having an affair with, asks her to run away and get married to him.

The Best MAN, because the bride is having an affair with the best man.

Bridal War, because there is arguments and in the end someone dies.

And Wedding Secret because, as the title shows, there is a secret, that their having an affair.

PITCH:

The genre for my short film is Drama/Crime. It may seem like a romantic film at first but towards the middle to the end there is drama and crime. At the beginning it shows a loved up girl getting ready for her wedding day, then in the middle she has arguments with people close to her and in the end, a guest finds her on dead on the floor. In the film the characters think it is one of the people that she had an argument with, but only in the last second the audience see that she had killed herself, while the characters still wonder who done it. In my narrative research I found that in films that use Todorov's theory, the audience prefer it better because it allows them to have a sense of closure at the end of the film rather than leaving it on a cliff hanger, and they may not understand the full message if its left on a cliff hanger. Also, I think it is important to use Propp's theory about classifying the characters into clear certain roles, which allows the audience to connect with the characters separately as they know the role of each one. My major influence for the short film was from an event that happened in the British soap, Hollyoaks. The audience could relate to the main character, but even though she was the one that was in the wrong, as she was cheating on her fiancé, the audience felt sympathy for her because she was a caring, loving character.