Pre Production Development - My Pitch and Treatment Package

With my pitch, I kept it very visual as to make sure that not only my tutor but also my peers would understand what I was trying to achieve and make with my major project. Unfortunately because of that some of them didn't understand what my film was, or some of the details that they just didn't get. This was a fault on my part as I was nervous and rushed a little bit on my presentation and left out some crucial details such as, character backgrounds, the plot, and most importantly, the information about my pre production package.

What was going to be included within the package, how was it going to show of the best aspects of my work, how was it going to be done or submitted? All these things could have been told and executed in my pitch a hell of a lot better in my opinion and so I have learned to make sure to read the brief more thoroughly next time.

That was it for my presentation, but now as for my overall Pre Production Package I plan to put all of my work into a book with these chapter headings.

Treatment

Characters

Locations

Concept Art

Script

Episode synopsis 

Cast

 

Crew

Pre Production Unit Development Locations and special Props

Firstly with the character of Greg Splotion, I imagined him having a crazy pet best friend that other people would be freaked out about whenever they saw it. Since this character is a scientist I thought it would be cool if he had a really cool un natural pet, something aquatic, so I thought, what about an octopus.

This is when I had to slow down and think... How would I even consider the possibilities of get a life size octopus let alone finding one. Then it hit me, what if I didn't need the octopus at all, what if I just got a prop of a simple octopus tentacle and thats it.


With research I have gathered There is a company that has built a life-size octopus tentacle and would be perfect as a quick moment of dark comedy.

Fig.1 Tentacle - FrightProps.com [Online] at: http://www.frightprops.com/tentacle-0745.html (Accessed on 11/10/16).


Location examples:

For a short film like mine I would conceder either a big fancy house or a cottage, but somewhere with space where lot of characters can be in.

Fig.2 Middle of nowhere cottages Take a holiday break that's far from the madding crowd [Online] At: http://www.menaiholidays.co.uk/assets/images/Scenics/thumbs/1766x669/xBBP_8871.jpg.pagespeed.ic.JKesJgVckH.jpg (Accessed on 11/10/16).

Fig.3 Magnificent Architecture [Online] At: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d7/4d/0d/d74d0d23e8ea1cdf07a6337097f52b4f.jpg  (Accessed on 11/10/16).

My Cast expectations and Locations

There were already couple of people in mind for my cast for some of the parts in mind. They are mostly some people I have work with before and I amigo get them involved one last time for this creative project I am doing.

Some here are already some of the cast that I had in mind:

Henry - Ben Fleury

Mrs Dagmar - Dave Turner

As you can clearly see this guy can do it all, he is known for playing the woman role in any pantomime





Head Tutor Dr Harrison - John Reding

Classy, smart, funny, these qualities define John as well as this character. The reason I have chosen John is because not only was he really easy and fun to work with but he has a powerful way of speaking not only during his stand up but also when he is acting.


Expectations for the rest of the cast:

Agnus McBurns -



Gregory Plotion -



Dave Smith - Possibility (Shan Rickwood)?

Tall, tough, and a heavy metal fan, this guy may be funny when you meet him but on camera I would expect him to be great as a street fighting, class bullying, rough and tough bloke who gets into all sorts of trouble but beneath all of that anger exterior lies someone who was framed and misunderstood.

Kevin Terrible -



Sam Dagmar -

Destination for Despicable Delinquents (Treatment)

The show I am creating revolves around a young 21+ year old boy who is hired to a big house filled with the most out of control kids and teens in England. For this to work not only would I need a great big house to work in and to get permission to film in but I would also need the right cast to get the right feel to it.

The Feel:

I wanted the feel to be somewhat Tim Burnish but not too dark but more funny and often quick with the timings for the comedy, to be fast paste comedy for me usually executes the best.

With dark comedy turning bad things and situations into funny and liable jokes can be often hard to nail down as most majority of people today tend to get over sensitive of whats on television especially the internet when the audience half the time have complete control over what they think and what they want to say online.

With that however comes fun as the aim of comedy, more importantly from a script, is to make sure there is joke after joke after joke. I originally I was going to aim the comedy based around the style of the E4 Show Scrubs, where the comedy is based around high drama within a hospital.

My show however needed to be more funnier so with this it seemed that the comedy percentage need to be higher than the drama. The show's feel has to be gothic but enough so a high amount of people who band away from gothic horror can still be intrigued to give it a watch. My target audience is around 12 to 30 year olds, so like 6th formers to college students to young adults.

The style I imagine is gloomy yet artistically creative and classy, but when it comes to the delinquents I wanted a rough tough and gothic look to them.

Inspiration:
I took inspiration from dark yet funny shows such as this one, What it's Like Being Alone, a show based around an orphanage where these deformed, mister, and old around weird orphans live and get into adventure and trouble within this one location all within the plot and task of eventually being adopted by parents.

The comedy style is what I want to aim around and the location somewhat similar, I think the biggest challenge to this major project is in fact the location, as I wanted a kind of broken house but not too broken.




Grimborster. (2007). What It's Like Being Alone - Episode 5 part 1 of 4. [Online Video]. 23 February 2007. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFSuVBGKjUc. [Accessed: 4 October 2016].

Rosenberg Research (Dissertation)

As part of my Dissertation I wanted to research the psychological aspects of market research by using the popular medium of Superheroes on TV and popular culture. The reason I went this route was because it is a growing phenomenon a studios like Marvel seem to making movie after movie and gaining more and more profit, I thought it would be interested to see what other people see in superheroes in their eyes.

I came across a popular Dr of Psychology by the name of Robin Rosenberg who specialised on adapting the stories and characteristics of Superheroes and finding psychological phenomena attached to them.

There is even a lecture she did on the teachings in life that Superheroes teach us. She talk to an audience shows a lot of examples and what was interesting was that most of her inspiration came from her 3 sons who would come home after school talking about the X-Men which is what I am using my prime example in my dissertation.





Bibiography:

Talks at Google. (2013). Robin Rosenberg: "What is a Superhero" | Talks At Google. [Online Video]. 22 August 2013. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaLnexXbtZA. [Accessed: 30 September 2016].

Destination for Despicable Delinquents Development 28.09/2016

My Characters:

Henry Javerson
Age - 20
Henry comes from a very pride driven household with every single one of his family members having a degree within a theoretical skill. His mother (Hillary) has a degree in theoretical physics and is a university tutor. His father (Alister) got a first class Degree in medicine and is a Doctor.

Course Tutor - Kevin Harrison
Age - 35
The tutor who gives Henry his second chance and sends him on his way to The Destination for his final exam.

Mrs Dagmar
Age - 42
The Destination's funder and the main lady in charge of the hole facility. She funded the project of rehabilitating bad students as she was raised in the belief that the human body thinks and act in different way even bad ways when something is wrong, she believed that everyone deserves  a second chance.

Agnus Mcburns
Age - 12
This young lady came to the Destination of her own free will as she wanted the desire to burn things at her free will. Her parents were relentlessly arguing even since she was young and when she lit her first candle to stop them her calling was heard and she had spent the rest of her days at he Destination ever since.

Gregory Plosion
Age - 13
Ever since her was born, this boy had an over curious mind to point where his curiosity almost coursed a world destructive experiment to go terribly wrong. If anything scientific comes across his hands, wether it be just a frog or a simple flask, he would put any type of stuff into them just to see if an explosion were to occur. He was deemed by the government to be too dangerous but Mrs Dagmar found a potential in Greg and he was accepted into the Destination where you can often hear the sounds of an electric drill indicating he is still working on his next global dominating project.

Dave Smith
Age - 15
School after school after school, each one will tell the consistent amount of trouble this guys pulls around. Bullying beyond measure, wedgies, swirlies, pranks, anti social behaviour, and of course, fight after fight after fight. Quite surprising he hasn't killed anyone.... Yet! Before being sent of to jail because of a near beat down of an insolent student (so he has calmed) Mrs Dagmar came into the court room and said that her Destination would be perfect for Dave and would be kept out of harms way when it came to his family and any other school who might be misfortunate to have him.

Kevin Terrible
Age - 10
The main trickster and pranker in the whole Destination and only friend to Dave, this guy uses every single known trick in the book. He gained the experience because of his dad's shifty background and mainly had to use ticks and cons in order to help him. Eventually the jig was up and his old man was sent to prison, and since he has no knowledge of his mum (who is alive) he was found by Mrs Dagmar who over heard his dilemma and took him into The Destination to watch over him.

Sam Dagmar
Age - 20
Mrs Dagmar's only Daughter who volunteered to work at the Destination, she cooks, cleans, and teaches (to the best of her ability) the other people of the Destination on how the real world works and how they can adapt to it. She takes a shine to Henry and try her best to make sure his first day isn't his last.

Pre Production Unit Idea

For this project I wanted to make something completely original that was entirely my very own that I could invent and let my creativity be the steering wheel to guide me through the process the makings of a great television series.

Knowing the television market in the 21st  century, most people just watch things that are internet related, I thought of a series to create from the popular internet service Netflix. Popular content is being put onto Netflix because of the services growth in profit and market research targeting the people who like to watch certain films and genres. One example is the Netflix series Stranger Things, the unexpected fandom of this series sky rocketed into already giving it the green light for a season 2. In the amount of 16 days in July alone 8.2 million people clicked and tuned in to watch it and research showed that this series was more popular then House of Cards.

My idea:
This idea came to me while just watching an episode of The Young Ones. I realised that most popular TV Shows and films have a gimmick when a series can take place in one specific location, these types of shows one such as the young ones take place in a big fancy house. Shows like these aim around not the characters they are there but the environment that the characters are in and how they use it from a day to day basis. Now this is the most difficult task... How to make it original, since the concept has been done before the way to make it original is that the sinarrio is different.
So how do I make a production like this my own?

Well to make something of my own creation, I feel that I will need to reflect on my past experiences and turn that into something special that not only I relate to but to other audiences would have a connection to or would just find entertaining.
Most of my experiences have been education related mainly by being a mentor and teaching younger children in schools. Lately I have to also have the privilege of teaching and filming with teenagers at a company based in Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells named PQA. A drama academy for young upcoming actors and actresses. With this in mind I would think that my series would contain upcoming young kids and teen actors to take part in my series.
Though I feel like my series my be taking a risk by that being close to other ideas involving children in a big house such as the resent Tim Burton film Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children except these are kids with no powers but just destructive and unique qualities and some are up to the age of 18.
Still having the gothic turn on this series there will be comedic elements to keep it entertaining. I feel there is much potential for this show to go into major production if I gather the right cast, crew and most importantly my location.


Destination for Despicable Delinquents:

Series plot:
Henry is a University Student who comes from a prestigious family who thrives on knowledge and power, but due to unforeseen circumstances he is about to fail due to an error on his final exam. Fate somehow has given him a second chance as he is then hired as a phycologist at the worlds most dangerous place full of the most untrustworthy, undisciplined, unpredictable, and darn right most despicable delinquents in England gathered in one destination. Now time is against him as it is up to Henry to rehabilitate these outcasts of human society and prepare them for the real world before his deadline, will he pass or will he fail, or will the inhabitants of this insane place get to him first?

Episode Synopsis:

Ep.1 – Arriving at the Destination
Henry is a Uni student in his last year and is about to fail when he receives his last chance in a form of a creepy house with the world’s most uncontrollable kids.

Ep.2 – The Id
Beginning his first day Henry is put to work finding out what makes these monsters tick, are they what come between pass and fail for his Uni degree?

Ep.3 – A Burning Desire
Angus plans to make Henry quit by cooking up explosive pranks around the house, will her ambition be realised?

Ep.4 – What a Fine Day For Science
Gregory is at it again with his crazy experiments, this time a mishap causes one of his experiments to go rouge, it’s up to everyone in the house work together to stop it.

Ep.5 – Fight or Flight

Nathan has had it with rehabilitation and tries to push Henry into fighting him so that he can get evidence to use against him.

Ep.6 – The Ego
As everyone is starting to settle in with Henry and his ambitions, Henry is beginning to wonder if this is reality or are the delinquents just getting ready to pull of something catastrophic?

Ep.7 – Human Socialising
Henry tries to convince the owner of The Destination to take the other kids on a little trip outside of the facility, but she still doesn’t think that would be very wise idea.

Ep.8 – The Subconscious
Tabitha’s dreams are being to affect her in stressful way, Henry tries to use each method of Phycology to help her before she goes completely insane.

Ep.9 – Taking a walk on the Darkside
Henry comes up with a method to try and bond with everyone by becoming a delinquent himself, will his risky decision earn the respect of the other trouble makers?  

Ep.10 – The Super Ego
Today is his last chance, Henry must prove his lessons with the young ones were effective and successful, it’s pass or fail time, will Henry be awarded with his long awaited Degree?