Written pitch

The Pitch for the main task - ‘Fugitive’

Title: Fugitive

Genre: Thriller/Drama

Time roughly: Midnight

Audience: Teenagers, Adrenaline seekers.

Main character: Fugitive (Luke Sherlock)

Influence: The beginning of Death Race (2009)

Protagonist: Fugitive (Luke Sherlock)

Plot Outline: The fugitive has escaped prison after being convicted of murdering his wife. He strolls down the streets discreetly at late night. Wanted posters surround lampposts. As he walks he sees two people walking past him, as he turns round he spots that one of them drops their wallet, suspense would build up as the viewer thinks he will steal it being a fugitive but instead he picks it up and approaches the people giving it back. The people thank him but then set sights on the poster with him on the wanted sign and they phone the police. The fugitive walks up to a graveyard and stands next to a gravestone, with tears. He has his last flashback that proves his innocence. Then police sirens engulf the audio and the film ends. Throughout the film he will have flashback that eventually show his innocence

Conflict: The main character is a fugitive of a crime he didn’t commit (but the viewer doesn’t know that) and the Police are hunting him down. Memories haunt him (the flashbacks) and he suffers from paranoia.

What we are actually doing: We would start with complete darkness with eerily music steadily getting louder as the scene fades in. There will be Scene shots of the streets to show the ‘urbaness’. Then a camera slowly moving left capturing a lamp post with a wanted sign of a prisoner who has escaped.The figure walking down the road filmed from behind so the face is hidden and also an alley (Love tunnel). The fugitive has a hazy flashback that makes it seem he has killed a woman holding a knife full of blood. In this scene he walks past two people (Callum Price and Thomas Morgan) as one of them drops there wallet. We will fill this scene with suspense using tense music and get close ups of the wallet as well as the fugitives. Then in a shock he gives the wallet back instead of what the viewer would think of him taking it. The two people show gratitude but then spot the poster and then surprisingly call the police where the camera zooms in on the phone. Then narration of the person thoughts come into the scene and texts also comes up to show how he wants to live a new life, to prove that he is innocent and has been treated unfair he helps someone. He eventually gets to a graveyard where he stands crying with camera circling him making him the centre of attention. He has his last flashback that shows the repeated flashback that shows his innocence as he didn’t kill his wife Then police sirens loudly echo and the film fades out, connoting the fact that he has been caught. With this the final text showed would be “I shall seek my freedom. I’m Innocent”.