Homework: My Film pitch

The name of my film will be 'The Flower of Immortality'

Director – Chris Columbus

Producer – Peter Jackson

Characters:
Heroine – Emily – Emma Watson
Villain – Crabioid – Hugo Weaving
The donor – Drafogus – Shia LaBeouf
The helper – Chris – Taylor Lautner

The target audience will be both boys and girls, aged 10+.

Plot:
Emily is a geeky teenage girl who doesn’t have any friends at school. She spends most of the time by herself in her own world. She has a major crush on Chris, who is the most popular guy in her school. There’s a geography school trip being held to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Emily and her class (including Chris) set off to Brazil where they’re going to look at the wildlife there. On the plane trip on the way to Brazil, a chaperoning teacher, Mr. Johnson, tells all the students about a legend to do with the Amazon rainforest about the Flower of Immortality. This flower gave whoever had it the power to live forever. People have searched for it for hundreds of years but it has never been found. Mr. Johnson then shows the students the only picture of the rare flower which has a unique pattern on it which makes it distinctive from all other flowers.


When the students arrive at the Amazon, they are shown to their accommodation which is located at the edge of the rainforest and they unpack their stuff. They soon set out into the rainforest to explore the new environment. They are first split into groups of 10, each group with their own chaperoning teacher. In Emily’s group, she has been put with both Chris and Mr. Johnson. As Emily doesn’t have any friends, she goes wandering around by herself, looking at all the various plants and animals around her. That’s when she finds the one-of-its-kind Flower of Immortality. At first she’s hesitant to take it as she’s scared of the consequences, but she soon gives in and takes the flower. At this point, Chris notices that she’s found something and interrogates her about what it is. She tries to quickly hide it from him but she ends up caving in and tells him everything. Chris insists that she tells one of the teachers about the flower but Emily argues against this and makes him promise not to tell anyone either. Although he’s reluctant, he agrees to stick to the promise. Whilst Emily and Chris are having this conversation, Mr. Johnson overhears it but he pretends as if he doesn’t know anything.

On that same night, when everyone has gone to bed, someone knocks on Emily’s door. When Emily opens the door, she’s surprised to see Chris at the other end. He asks her to come on a walk with her and she happily agrees, ecstatic that the boy she’s mad about wants to go on a walk with her. Chris takes her on a romantic walk through the rainforest and they end up sleeping outside together under the stars. When Emily wakes up the next morning she finds herself alone. She walks back to her room. When she enters her room she finds it totally destroyed. Somebody had been in her room that night and they were obviously looking for something. Then she suddenly remembered that she hid the flower at the bottom of her suitcase. She quickly rummages through her suitcase but the flower was gone. She runs to Chris’s room and tells him what happened. Chris is confused when Sophie talks about her walk with him to the rainforest. That’s when they both realise that something very strange is going on. They soon find out that Mr. Johnson is missing as well and they come to the conclusion that it was him that stole the flower.

Chris and Emily both go searching for him in the heart of the rainforest. On their search for him, they come across a trapped bear who they free from danger. After freeing the bear, the bear shape shifts into a human and is called Drafogus. Drafogus tells Chris and Emily that Mr. Johnson is actually a shape shifter, called Crabioid, who’s been searching for the flower for ages because every time he shape shifts, he’s gets a little bit older and eventually he will die, so he wants the flower to stay immortal and still be able to shape shift, as well as to help him take over the world. Drafogus then tells Emily and Chris that it was Crabioid that trapped him and that they must go and find him and kill him before it’s too late. He also offers to help them. The three of them then set off to find Crabioid. When they come face to face with Crabioid there’s an epic battle between them, but only the Safagus Sword can kill shape shifters, which Drafogus has given to Emily to use. Whilst Drafogus distracts Crabioid, Emily comes from behind and stabs Crabioid in the back, instantly killing him. She then retrieves the flower and destroys it before any more damage is caused. At the end, Chris and Emily get together and they declare their love for each other and they all live happily ever after!

Marketing Plan:

The film will be released in July 2012 and it will be shown in multiplex cinemas. The different elements of the campaign are that there’ll be a trailer, film poster and film website.
The film poster will be a mid shot of Emily and Chris and the flower in the middle of them two. The background will be of the rainforest.
The trailer will show the best bits of the film in chronological order. It will first show Emily in school, then a shot in the plane on the way there, then several shots in the Amazon showing the action going on in there. There will also be on screen text.
The website will contain a synopsis of the film, a video of the trailer, cast, filmmakers and production notes, games and other links.


I was inspired by films such as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and The Transformers.