Tagline:-Her parents didn’t know; now they never will…
Pitch:-
When a young and neglected Amy is taken, her parents go on a mission to find her, only to find themselves in a twisted game of neglect and perversity leading to the shocking truth of her daughter’s whereabouts. Will the Toymaker win more importantly will the parents lose?
Treatment:-
Amy, a pretty young girl neglected by her hardworking parents, has a daily routine. When her parents leave for work every morning she would make her breakfast and feed the cat down the street. Lonely and isolated she is easy prey for a deranged Toymaker.
After he takes her and leaves an “Amy-like” doll in her place, her parents, race against time to find their lost daughter and to win the game of the Toymaker. The Toymaker leaves a clue on the back of the doll left in Amy’s place that leads the parents to more doll’s and shocking revelations about their daughter’s location. When her parents find the last clue it chillingly reads “I Win”.
After conceding to the belief that Amy is gone forever her parents realise that they didn’t do the best by her, they leave to live with family in Scotland to grieve for their daughter. Some time later they see a news report of a series missing girls from their home town generating the need for them to help the other parents and hopefully get closure about their daughter.
The mother, soon returns to her hometown and is haunted by uncanny doll of her daughter in an abandoned toy shop window. Curious, she breaks into the shop, only to discover dozens of these life-size dolls hanging on the old shelves. When she goes to get a better look at the replica of her daughter, she notices the exact beauty spot, which Amy had on her cheek. Stunned and scared she alerts the police, and they discover the sick truth behind the disappearance of Amy in the Toymakers deadly playpen.
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Tuesday 1 December 2009
Opening Title Research
Saul Bass is famous for creating the most successful and interesting title sequences to date. Seeing as the genre for my group's film is horror/psychological thriller it makes sense to focus on these types of opening sequences. I am now analysing closely the opening titles of numerous horror films because by doing this i gain more ideas about what i want our original film to entail. Additionally, the more interesting the opening titles are the better our film will look. Moreover, the titles have to link with the key themes and meanings behind the film and the best way to make sure our film has these key elements, is to analyse other successful openings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw
Hitchcock's Psycho uses the famous Saul Bass essence (as he created the opening titles) by using the signature lines. The opening titles on a whole work so well because the eerie music is parallel to the lines and text onscreen. When "Psycho" pops up and is then made distorted; this links to the idea that the mind of the psycho in the film is sketchy and messed up.
Due to numerous reasons, we have had to think of alternative ideas in case we cannot shoot what we had originally planned. So, we thought of the idea that because we have a Toymaker as a main character in our film, we could use some of the time in the opening sequence to show a man building a doll, or creating some sort of mechanism before actually getting into the scenes of the little girl actually being snatched. A very influential clip of opening titles that follows the basis of our idea is from the film Se7en.
The distorted images and blackouts to show the titles are the sorts of aspects we would like to include in our film, so this was a very useful opening to analyse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtyuc2Rz2mQ
The above opening sequence is chilling, unexpected, confusing and just plain eerie. Perfect for what we're looking for our opening sequence to be! The use of music and children's photographs is just what we want to portray to the audience that there is a child involved in the film, and there is also a villainous character "watching" and "plotting" around the idea of children. I think it's a very relevant clip to have as part of our film's research.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw
Hitchcock's Psycho uses the famous Saul Bass essence (as he created the opening titles) by using the signature lines. The opening titles on a whole work so well because the eerie music is parallel to the lines and text onscreen. When "Psycho" pops up and is then made distorted; this links to the idea that the mind of the psycho in the film is sketchy and messed up.
Due to numerous reasons, we have had to think of alternative ideas in case we cannot shoot what we had originally planned. So, we thought of the idea that because we have a Toymaker as a main character in our film, we could use some of the time in the opening sequence to show a man building a doll, or creating some sort of mechanism before actually getting into the scenes of the little girl actually being snatched. A very influential clip of opening titles that follows the basis of our idea is from the film Se7en.
The distorted images and blackouts to show the titles are the sorts of aspects we would like to include in our film, so this was a very useful opening to analyse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtyuc2Rz2mQ
The above opening sequence is chilling, unexpected, confusing and just plain eerie. Perfect for what we're looking for our opening sequence to be! The use of music and children's photographs is just what we want to portray to the audience that there is a child involved in the film, and there is also a villainous character "watching" and "plotting" around the idea of children. I think it's a very relevant clip to have as part of our film's research.
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