Character Description: Older Brother

Name: 'TBD'

Relation: Henry's Older Brother

Height: 6'0ft.-6'5ft.

Character Influence: 

Bradley Cooper in 'Wedding Crashers'

Tom Hardy in 'This Means War'

Hugh Grant in 'Bridget Jones Diary'

Evaluation of the Pitch

Evaluation of the Pitch

Above is our original pitch. We started planning our opening speech by taking key words/ideas from the idea of our film and strain them together into a short piece of text, these keywords are in red. We felt this communicated our message very accurately and also precisely, however the last line caused confusion amongst some members of the audience who felt the last line, 'and end it all once and for all' suggested suicide from the character. Subsequently we have decided to change this line to 'and end the rivalry once and for all'. Below is what the new pitch would look like.

During our pitch we also experienced trouble naming the exact locations that we would film in, something which we will need to improve on for our second pitch as in the real world no investor would pump money into a film with relatively loose ideas. This also meant we would have to think about the cast. The following posts on characters and locations will give a more detailed picture on these aspects.

MARK: GREEN

TEACHER: SOUTHWORTH

Treatment

The Plot

1. Two brothers live together with their family.
2. Throughout their childhood the older has been high favouritism.
3. The boys have since grown up.
4. The result has been a hugely confident and successful older brother, with the younger living in his shadow.
5.  The younger brother experiences unlikely romantic success, when he speaks to an attractive stranger about her unlucky pursuit of another man.
6. He finds that she has recently been heartbroken and is willing to give a 'nice guy'. so asks if he'd like to go for a drink.
7. He gladly accepts.
8. The pair blossom into a happy couple.
9. The younger brother decides after months he is finally ready to take her home to his parents and of course, his dreaded older brother. 
10. There are several bizarre occurnces when she is in the home, such as the fact that she knows where the bathroom is before being told.
11. They sit down to eat a meal which the younger brother has slaved over.
12. The older brother turns up with chinese, however it is not this that shocks the brother, more so the fact she knows his name.
13. She apologizes immediately to the younger brother and walks out, the older brother follows.
14. From the window he watches them in the street.
15. In the next few weeks, the older brother brings the girl home, and introduces her as his girlfriend. This angers the younger brother
16. A month or so later, the two become engaged, and Henry becomes depressed.
17. After a period of moping around at a friends flat, the younger brother receives an invitation to the wedding, with a sarcastic '+1'
18. His friends, an edgy stoner and geeky ugly-Betty-like female, convince him to attend the wedding, and declare it their mission to find a new and better girl.
19. After weeks of comical searching he has an argument with the two friends and decides he will give up.
20. Over the next few months he ponders on the argument, he greets losing all he had left.
21. The stoner friend turns up at his new flat on the day of the wedding.
22. In the van back of the van he sees a tuxedo and an elegant dress.
23. He tells the stoner friend that he has unfinished business.
24. Asks out the 'geeky' friend by phone.
25. Turns up to ice her up and she has gotten rid of her braces, and also grown her hair.
26. They go to the wedding.
27. The older brothers wife turns out to be a bitch, the wedding is a flop, and Henry and his new girl leave in style.

Character Description: 'Green Al' Alan

Name: 'Green Al' Alan

Relation: Henry's Best Friend (Male/Stoner)

Height: 5'9-5'11

Character Influence: 



James Franco in 'Pineapple Express'

Nick Frost in 'Shaun of the Dead'

Kal Penn in 'Harold and Kumar'

Project Update 3: Character List

Character List

Younger Brother: Henry Taylor

Older Brother: Gary 'Gaz' Taylor

Henry's Ex/Gaz's Fiance: Kelly Caivano

Best Friend (Male/Stoner): 'Green Al' Alan 

Best Friend (Female): Amy Thompson

Project Update 2: Possible Names for our Film

British Comedy Film Moodboard

Ideas for Trailers: Simon Pegg Films/British Feel

We decided to make a British film. The genre is still yet to be decided, however we are close to a Rom/Com, the emphasis however is on the comedy. We also decided that we were going to try and make our trailer in the same style as a Simon Pegg film. He emphasises on nostalgia, and varied edits and cuts. We took inspiration from the trailer above and:

Run Fat Boy Run:



Hot Fuzz:


The trailers all use a voice over to explain the plot. Whilst on screen sits are cut together in a fast pace.

Ideas for Trailers: Shutter Island

Our original idea was to make a trailer for a thriller. However, we decided that we did not have the resources, set, locations or varied enough cast to do the genre justice.