IDENTITY ZERO By Millie, Toby and Jordan

The genre of our film is Family Drama. It is about a lawyer who sadly looses one of his cases, looses his reputation and hits rock bottom. Miraculously a big case comes up and he’s the only one who can do it. Will he succeed?!

It is set in the 18 hundreds, when American civilisations were developing. The theme is Western. The message that even when you are at the bottom you should never give up as you will rise back up to the top once again.

The target audience is working class men, they would like it as it gives them courage and inspiration to never give up and even if their work is getting hard, if they keep going they will succeed and get through it.

In the opening sequence it starts with Frank sitting down in a bar drinking huge pints of beer, screaming and shouting at other bar members as he picks himself up off his chair, wobbling and tripping up. The camera then starts to go all blurry to portray the way Frank is seeing as he is drunk trying to get home. The sound also loudens and he starts mumbling. Next thing you know he has fallen to the floor. Loud bang and the screen goes blank.

It relates to the rest of the play as it then flashes back to the past where Frank is a successful young business man, winning all his cases and being loved by everyone. It then goes onto show a case that Frank stupidly looses and his career then falls apart because of this. The opening scene is showing the life that Frank began to have after his reputation went down hill.

It introduces character and setting as the flashback gives a background story on the character and film. The successful young man he was compared to the drunken wreck he is now creates ultimate contrast.

Wins every case then one fails he looses reputation and turns into a lazy drunk. Then one day he goes out of town and bumps into a stranger and fakes name and past. He is offered the ultimate case and takes it on. He succeeds but later on the court finds out that he had forged his name. He has to go into hiding in order to avoid conviction. Which life is better? One of hiding or one of drunkenness.

The style is a family drama filled with action and loss of life. The mood of the film opening is dismay sorrow and self pity.

CAST

Tom Cruise will play Frank the well known lawyer with the biggest reputation in the wild west. We chose him because he is a confident and outgoing actor who shows emotions well and is capable of playing any part given.

Amanda Seyfried will play Rose the weak wife who gets beaten and goes to court to plead against her husband but the sexist judge makes a life altering decision. We chose her because she has a wide range of acting abilities and skills.

Theo James will play Billy the violent husband that beats his wife to insanity. We chose him because he has a strong male sense to him and he plays bad people regularly so has a lot of experience in this role.

Johnny Depp plays Houston the sexist drunken judge, he is well suited to the part because he is dynamic and gets into character straight away. In previous films he has played drunken men and has been very good at it.

This film has a very particular and unique category which means we were able to explore different varieties of themes, which we can use to create an exciting and different film for others. We have been able to discuss ideas, which have enabled our ideas to be eccentric, such as the setting to be the wild west. With this setting we have incorporated ideas from this time in America, using certain traits and habits which the western public portrayed, although we’ve been very different to any other film because the character’s emotions are changing throughout. The target audience is working class men, so we have chosen a complex story line for them to follow, this makes the film intriguing for everyone to follow.

To promote we will use plane banners over beaches. We will also put advert posters on busses and in the underground. We have decided to do this because most movies are just on trailers but if we put it on a plane people are more likely to notice it. We will make trailers that will be posted online and shown on TV adverts.

MOOD BOARD

Wild Productions

Due to our many very famous stars we will have to make our film very high budget and in order to do this we will be using our own production ‘Wild productions’ and we will pair up with ‘Paramount’ a very successful and well known production.

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