Created by Zara and Hannah

Equilibrium

At the start, the audience will see a funeral taking place and it will be a father that has died. Then it fast forwards to the family going on holiday in Canada and they all stay in a log cabin together. It shows the son

looking around the area and he is gone for more than two hours.

Disruption

He hasn’t come back, the mum goes out to look for him and they can’t continue their search because they have discovered a forest fire. Police, detectives and firemen are called to the scene and the fire eventually

goes out and there is no siting's of the boy named Morgan. The week following the fire, missing posters are put up by the family and the police do everything they can to find evidence. But then they come across six

small bones that they believe belong to the missing boy but they have no fire damage on them. This is because, the twin brother dug them up from another child’s grave to make it look like Morgan was dead and at this point, the audience won’t know where the bones have come from and won’t know of the twin

brother. A couple of weeks later, Rose is reading the newspaper and finds a picture of her son Morgan and who she believes is her husband. She calls the police and tells them that they have to go to the fair straight away because she believes her child is alive. She starts seeing images of her husband and suddenly faints. She wakes up in a hospital room and wants to understand what happened last night and if her husband is

really dead.

Resolution

She goes home and she looks back at the newspaper article and realises the man in the photo doesn’t have a scar under his right eye like her husband does. She calls the police and questions if her husband really did die. The police look and check all the files and confirm that her husband has died but through their

searches they find a man that looks similar to her husband and who has the same birthday. They discover that from birth he was put into care then into an asylum. They eventually track him down and he is in an

abandoned house with Morgan, the missing boy. They take Morgan into care and go to the police station to question the husband’s twin brother. The brother wanted to take Morgan because he is the only family that

he has left and wanted to take away what his brother loved the most as he was never loved himself.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN OUR FILM, USING TODOROV’S THEORY.

The genre of our film is a mix of crime, psychological and mystery. We also researched the film Prisoners and we were

influenced by this film because it was a similar genre to ours. The elements that we looked at in Prisoners was the way certain characters were presented and the way the story line was done. This film was well written and the

audience didn’t know what was going to happen throughout and we wanted to add that suspense and tension to our film

as well. We looked at the title sequence for Taken and we researched the film. We also wanted to look at this film

because it revolved around someone going missing and a murder and we wanted to include these elements in our

film.

THE GENRE OF OUR FILM AND WHAT OTHER TITLE SEQUENCES WE

LOOKED AT WHICH ARE OF A SIMILAR GENRE.

TARGET AUDIENCE FOR OUR FILM

The target audience for our film is people 15 and over. We wanted to target an audience like this because they would appreciate the whole concept of the film and also some of the footage that appears in the film would be too graphic for people under 15. Also people under 15 wouldn’t understand the story line of the film and may get confused with what is going on. People at this age are most likely to watch these sort of films as they are interested in these topics and its issues that are happening in everyday life.

WHO WILL STAR AND DIRECT THE FILM?

• Paul Dano is going to star in our film as the twin brother and he is the brother of the husband that has died.

• Courtney Cox is going to star in our film as the wife and she has lost her son and her husband in the film which makes her a widow. In the film she is trying to get her son back.

• Leonardo DiCaprio is going to star in our film as the main police officer/detective. He has no relation to any of the characters. He is just called to the scene when the forest fire starts.

• We have chosen to pick James Wan to direct our film as he is best known for directing some of the best thrillers and horrors such as The Conjuring and Insidious.

HOW MUCH MONEY WILL THE FILM COST AND HOW MUCH MONEY WE INTEND OUR FILM TO MAKE AND WHY? WHICH FILM COMPANY WE WANT TO PRODUCE OUR FILM.

Our film is going to cost 50million pounds too make and produce. This is because we are going to have Leonardo DiCaprio star in our film as the man police officer/detective. Our film is also going to have a high budget because of all the props that we are going to use. We intend for our film to make 70-75million pounds overall because of the stars that are in our film. Also the genre of our film is very popular amongst the public and we have selected a good target audience for our film. We want momentum pictures to produce our film as they are based in England but they have also produced American films like Sinister and Insidious which are similar to our genre of film.

We would want to release our film between September and October because we looked at Prisoners which is a similar genre to our film and we researched into the film and saw that they made more money than their budget on both UK and USA opening weekends. We don’t want to release it on

Halloween as it isn’t a horror and there would be other scary films that would be in competition with our film. During the film, the family just come back from their

holiday which was in the summer which is why we chose to release the film after the holiday as it reflected the time

period that our film is set in.

WHEN WILL OUR FILM BE RELEASED AND WHY?