Pitch/ Brief

Outline

Similar to The Blair Witch Project, my film will start off with the production logos followed by a message telling the audience when the recordings were taken and when they were found. This is to add verisimilitude to make the film seem more real. My film has a big difference to The Blair Witch Project. My opening starts with the end of the film and finished with a  "three weeks earlier..." message. This is not only so we can jump into some action to grab the audiences attention, but also to make the audience want to watch on to find out what happened leading up to the sequence. I will firstly start by packing a bag like I'm going for a journey. I will then follow up by talking about the 'Grove Devil' I will then make a journey into the woods to uncover the truth. Once I enter the woods, I walk down the path leading into the woods in search of the Grove Devil. I then continue my journey but have strange visuals in my head as I go deeper into the woods. I then come across this doll with an arrow pointing deeper into the woods. There is then a loud cannon sound that frightens the character causing him to run off deeper into the woods as he tries to run away from the danger. The opening then ends with the Grove Devil's hand grab my shoulder.

The reason I chose to end the opening this point is because I wanted to end on a cliff hanger so the audience would want to carry on to find out what happens at the throughout the film. There is very little props used within my opening. The opening is mostly the camera focusing on me while I give some insight about the Grove Devil before focusing on my journey into the woods.

This film is slightly different to The Blair Witch Project, rather than start from chronological order and show the planning then the adventure. I showed the end of the film first and as the film progresses, it would show the events leading up to the woods. This is so there would be more action at the beginning so it would attract the audiences opinions.