Soundtrack

The soundtrack we finally decided to use is very orchestral, with simple piano chords at the start. Then violins come in to quicken it up and then even more violins and drums. There is then a short break in the music followed by rumbling of the drums that introduce the crescendo of the soundtrack making it reach its loudest and most atmospheric point. I'd say our soundtrack is very inspirational and fitting to our film because the very simple and almost timid beginning of the song correlates to the attitude of our protagonist at the beginning of his journey and then he grows and grows until finally reaching his crescendo which in our characters life would represent him signing his football contract and becoming such a well respected sportsman and most importantly finally, achieving his dream.

Animatic

This is our animatic edited by Kaan and drawn by Jack and Tolani. It shows the different stages of our title sequence.
https://youtu.be/uiUPNTzUB8A

Soundtrack

Our title sequence shows the struggles of a young boy dealing with various difficulties such as being bullied at school and facing financial difficulties at home. Because of this we thought using a contrapuntal orchestral soundtrack over the footage of Jack playing football as a young boy would be effective in creating the sensitivity and pain of the young boys reality. As Jacks situation improves and he starts to progress in his football career the soundtrack will also build into a very upbeat into a crescendo.

Choosing Typography

Here are some of the fonts my group and I considered using for our title and also the font we have decided to use and why.

My group and I have decided to use the font Jersey M54. This is because we felt as if this font suited the title and that the other options we had looked at were more suitable in a cartoon picture or a magazine cover. In addition, we also asked some of our classmates what font they would feel would be the best to use and the vast majority agreed with us and chose Jersey M54 to be the most suitable. Moreover, on a deeper level we chose this font because of the rough edges the font has and we felt as if this linked to the film because it shows that nothing is smooth in life and there will always be challenges and obstacles in your way.

Storyboard

Here is an in depth storyboard of our title sequence

Release Date

We have chosen the release date for our film to be Friday 14th of April because it is during the Easter holidays meaning kids are off school so we hope that this will increase the gross overall and the gross during the opening weekend.

Budget

The average budget for an independent film is £1million. Our film is a social realism film meaning our film focuses on a verisimilitudinous style so our film will not need extra funding for production such as special effects makeup and costume or post production such as C.G.I. Therefore a suitable budget for our film would be £922425.00. We estimate the gross of our film to be £1.3million thus not making a huge profit but we hope to gain immense critical success instead

Pitch

Production Company 

Our film is an independent, British film meaning that there will be multiple production companies needed in order to generate the funding for the film. We chose these production companies because we believe that these will both fund and market our film effectively and successfully and help us be successful at film festivals and at release. The production companies we have chosen to produce our films are;

• Antenna Pictures
• Baby Cow Animation
• Creative England
• Grass Roots Media
• TVE


Cast


Jack (Protagonist) – Tom Holland
Young Jack – Jacob Trembley
Iris (Love interest)– Candice Patron
Mr Jackson (Jack’s PE Teacher) – Alan Shearer
Jeremy (Bully 1) – Miles Teller
Kaan (Bully 2) – Ahmet Calik
Director/Producer – Frank Darabont (Tolani) 
Costumes/Make-Up – Lindsey Pugh and June Brickman (Jack)
Cinematographer/Lighting – Maryse Alberti (Tolani and Kallum)
Editor- James Haygood (Kaan)
Music Advisor – Jason Alexander (Kallum)
Graphics Editor – David Carson (Kaan)


Director
The director of our film is Frank Darabont. We chose this director because he has proven himself as a very successful director with directing films and series such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Walking Dead (2010-2011). His successes in drama was vital to us because that is the main genre of our film and some of his other works have been with films with small budgets. This proves that he can make a good film with a small budget. His success with films and series with different sub genres also attracted us to use him because it proves that he is not limited to one sub genre and is very flexible.

Audience Profile

Audience Demographic

As a football film, the target audience of the movie will be young male teenagers. The main reason being that most teenager boys play football and always dream of becoming a footballer. Teenagers will be the primary audience as well as football fans. I would argue that the secondary audience of our film will be young adults. This is because the films' sub genre is drama, so they will take the film a bit more seriously compared to young teenagers who would mainly be going to the film because of its sports genre. We also believe the secondary audience of this film would be young adults because some of the issues in the film could be similar to things those people are currently going through/have gone through and they can relate to the character in the film. The film may also attract young girls due to the attractive casting and romantic subplot.

Narrative Treatment

Equilibrium

Our equilibrium is of a 16 year old boy living with his single parent mother in a low income household. His only passion is football but due to not being able to afford the adequate gear and clothing for the sport he is bullied and secluded by his peers. 

Disruption of the equilibrium
His coach, who is like a father figure to him, encourages him to play in the upcoming football match although being discouraged by the other boys on the team. He attends the match at the top of his form and receives man of the match. A scout sees his brilliant performance and offers him a contract to play with a famous football team. The boy is now 18 and a football sensation with the most expensive football equipment

Disequilibrium
4 years into his career he is coming home from training one night and gets run over by one of his old schoolmates who used to bully him. The antagonist also got signed to a football team but has always come second best and been in the shadows of our protagonist since his rise to fame. The antagonist drives his car into the protagonists car driving him off the road and making the car tumble into a forest. The protagonist is in a 3 year coma with a broken leg and is told he can never play football again. Once out of his coma and on the road to recovery he meets the love of his life and decides he doesn't want to play football anymore but to focus on his family. 

Resolution
He comes across the man that drove into him and filled with anger. His old team was playing the opposition who our antagonist is on. He decided to play one last game to get his revenge over his bully and won the match

New Equilibrium
He retires from football to settle with his new wife and baby boy who he now coaches in football.