It's a pitch

2. What?
We chose to do a Teen Drama, with a bit of romance and
a bittersweet comedy edge.

3. RCCY Productions

4. Persona Non Grata
persona non grata
pəˌsəʊnə nɒn ˈɡrɑːtə,nəʊn/
noun
noun: persona non grata; plural noun: personae non
gratae
an unacceptable or unwelcome person

5. Key Character
Boy:
Very ‘nerdy’, generally just a weird character.
But not so much as that the audience wont connect with the character empathetically as
we still want people to laugh at his misfortune, not feel pity for him.
Wearing:
Psychedelic baggy cat shirt
Thick glasses
Skinny Jeans
Unkept Hair
Girl:
Bright Red Dress Also relatively nerdy like the boy is. (Hence why they connect)
Thick Glasses

6. Brief Outline
Our movie is going to be set in a college with the
protagonist being a complete outcast from the rest of
the school. He is living his painful life, out in college
being bullied and struggling to fit in with all his odd
habits. A girl then moves to his area and he starts seeing
her around college. He quickly falls in love with her, the
movie ends up playing out with him trying to ditch all
his habits and gain more self confidence to muster up
the courage to ask her on a date.

7. Locations
In Reigate college Interior:
Corridors around the college (County Building) and
classrooms that will be un-occupied.
Exterior:
Still on the college grounds, benches around college and
also the school gates as he enters college.

8. Target Audience Profile
This is Charlie, he likes watching art house
dramas, and romances and is ecstatic when
they are combined. He likes TV shows like
Breaking Bad, Utopia and Skins and his
favorite movie is Submarine. When online he
uses websites like Reddit and Pinterest to get
in touch with his friends, and talk about all of
the teen drama romance comedies he has
watched that very day.
Charlie would like to watch this film because
it applies perfect to his demographic and his
likes and interests. (Drama movies)

9. How
From our research we have decided to create a teen drama
that contains an isolated teen boy that is trying to fit into
college.
From our research, we have found that choosing to make the
boy ‘geeky/nerdy’ will apply to a large audience due to the
current time, where many people fit this demographic we
have also chosen to follow closely to the ideas of popular
teen dramas like submarine, because it ties in very closely
with our project.
Our research into setting meant that we were able to
confidently choose to film directly on the college grounds, as
many teen dramas are shot in colleges and schools.

10. What Films and Opening
Sequences Have Influenced Us
0 Mean Girls
This influenced us because of the heavy emphasis on the
‘teen drama’ genre. It also shows the aspect of isolation in a
college atmosphere.
0 Submarine
Submarine has influenced us heavily because it fits very
closely to the genre we are going for and also the main
premise of the film is about a boy that doesn’t quite fit in.
Their use of comedic camerawork and characters is also
what we are trying to achieve.

11. Structure
0 Act 1: Establishing Setting
We will show where the film will be set and also the
protagonist
0 Act 2: Establishing Characters
In act 2, we’ll show what the characters are like and how
they act/ their personality. We will also show a first glimpse
of the girl.
0 Act 3: Establishing Narrative and Genre
In act 3 we’re going to show that the boy has feelings for the
girl and that she is just as isolated/unwelcome as he is

12. What we will include in the
opening
0 In the opening we are planning to establish the setting, characters
and genre
0 The opening will establish the setting as we are filming the entire
scene in the college. We thought hard about how we’re going to
establish the characters in the scene and concluded on, rather than
dialogue or a voice over, using mise en scene heavily: eg. Using
artistic shots like a lone flower to show isolation, or how the boy will
sit on a bench on his own away from other people.
0 We also want to show the genre in the opening, but it isn’t our main
focus. So we are going to incorporate comedic cuts Edgar Wright
style, and also some drama via the boys interest in the girl.
0 We aim to make it a mostly a montage sequence, but it will have
continuity in it, so a mix of both

13. How?
Basic genre conventions we are including are:
0 Teenage isolation
0 Dramatic suspense
0 Romance
0 College grounds
To attract the target audience we are going to try to make the main
character connect empathetically with the audience, showing things
that would happen in day to day college that people will recognize.
We aim to make a dejected atmosphere, with the help of sad music and
plenty of long shots to show the loneliness of the character, if it
happens to be raining on the day of the filming it will also be beneficial
to us, but we can’t count on that.

14. How? Mise en Scene
Setting - time and place:
Our opening will be set in the morning, as the boy is doing his morning routine.
Props:
0 Weird T-shirt
0 Red dress for girl
0 Backpack
0 Glasses
0 Sandwich
Lighting:
We aren’t going to use any special lighting as we are going for a downcast mood, so the weather of that
morning will be fine.
Performance and Proxemics:
We want to establish to the audience how lonely the protagonist is, so he enjoys being as far away from
other people as possible and he also has a relatively strange personality, but so alien as the audience
won’t connect with him

15. How? Camerawork