This is the original slideshow of our pitch for the movie 'Ghost'. It is an action thriller about an ex-secret agent who has to re-enter the world of MI5 to help set the agency straight.
2. Genre
• Action/Thriller
• Popular
• Appeals to a wide audience
• Chose it because there is a wide range of actors
• There is different routes for a plot
• It allows us to be creative
3. Audience
• The Audience we have chosen to aim our film at is
the teenagers and Young Adults audience
• We have chosen this audience because we feel this
has is an audience which we understand well as a
result of us being in this age group. (Certificate
12A)
• We have also carried out research to prove this …
4. Research – Primary
• We asked 20 people in our chosen audience range,
asking questions like …
• What genre of film did you last go and see in the
Cinema? – 75% said action film, 15% said Comedy,
5% said Romantic Comedy and 5% said Animated
film.
5. Research – Primary
• What is your favourite Action Actor/Actress to go and see?
• Liam Neeson
• Jason Statham •Cameron Diaz
• Vin Diesel •Angelina Jolie
• Tom Cruise
•Scarlett Johansson
• Christian Bale
•Keira Knightley
• Dwayne Johnson
• Are Conclusion from these results were that Liam Neeson is the
preferred Male Actor and preferred Female actor is Angelina Jolie.
6. Research – Primary
• What film genre would you rather see?
- Action or Comedy? – 70% voted Action and 30%
voted Comedy.
- Adventure or Thriller? – 55% people voted
Thriller and 45% people voted Adventure.
- Action or Thriller? – 50% voted for both Action
and Thriller.
8. Narrative – Beginning
• Secret Agent retires from work at an undercover
government agency
• Ghost Figures appear to show the ex agents past
• Introduces the three main helpers at an interview
with the agency leader for new agents.
• Three helpers find information of the disruption of
the agency leader.
9. Narrative – Middle
• Helpers seek out assistance from ex agent as he
was the agency’s greatest asset before
retirement
• Ex agent has to be trained up to standard by the
three helpers using each of their areas of
expertise.
• Agent begins mission to retrieve information to
keep safe from being exposed.
10. Narrative – Ending
• Agency leader finds out about mission and tracks
down agent.
• Countless chase scenes and close combat fights.
• Agency leader appears for final fight, and the IT
agent gets killed, but the leader ends up exposed to
police and is removed from his leadership role.
• Main hero gives information back to the agency and
all four are promoted to leadership roles of own
specialist skills.
11. Characters
• Ex Agent – Main Hero – Liam Neeson
• Muscular man, often wears a suit (Except in
starting scene, when he is in a gown and
slippers)
• Confident, brave, fearless, risky, hero figure,
role model
12. Characters
• Three Current Agents –Hero’s Helpers – Vin Diesel,
Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise
• Vin Diesel – Grumpy, acts like the boss, controlling, very
strong, specializes in modern weaponry
• Angelina Jolie – Specializes in martial arts, very serious,
well dressed, likes to thinks she leads the group, she
argues with Vin Diesel about the lead role
• Tom Cruise – The joker, well dressed, doesn’t take tasks
seriously.
13. Characters
• Agency Leader – Main Villain – Dwayne Johnson
• Bald, Scar over his left eye, very strong, muscular
male.
• Dominant, powerful, persuading
• Has anger issues
• Drives a big armoured car
14. Characters
• The Body Guards – Villain’s Helpers – Extras
• Follow everyone’s lead
• Easily persuaded
• Big, muscular men
15. Setting
• Setting of opening – Suburban household on quiet
street
• Majority of action scenes – Interior of MI5 building
16. The Opening
• Man goes to end of drive way to get newspaper
• Looks up and remembers his past job
• Ghosts (His memory) run past in chase scene
• Man returns to house and switches on news
• Hears report on missing military information and
concentrates intensely on screen
• Then the doorbell goes, he opens the door and
three agents ask him for help.