First Production Group Meeting

We decided to do a completely different thriller to what our ideas were originally meant to be. The thriller is about an organic farmer’s butcher who injects drugs into the beef so it becomes diseased. It is sold to supermarket which in turn sell it to customer’s thinking they are getting good quality meat, who become ill, with terrible side effects, such as a flesh eating virus. The opening title sequence is of a man, who face is not shown, who is in his butcher, but disappears to his secret back room to contaminate the meat. The room is dark and has lots of knives and syringes. There is a newspaper article shown which reads “strange virus takes over village.” He begins cutting up the meat with a huge cleaver. Whilst cutting, blood begins to drip out of the meat, and the camera follows the blood to the floor, where the man’s foot stamps in the blood, creating another title. The meat is then injected with this drug, and a shot of the syringe being throw behind his shoulder is shown, which lands amongst lots of other syringes, knives, cleavers etc. When he is finished with the meat, he puts it into a box; a title is shown on the box when the logo is stamped onto it. He is then seen picking up the box and returning outside to put it into the back of a van. The van drives off, and a cut away shot is shown of the meat being put on a shelf, the camera then zooms out to show there are lots of other meats like it, showing the logo.

The target audience for this thriller would be between the ages of 16-30. The people affected are of all ages, but mainly a group of teenagers, therefore it would be relevant to them. There is lots of gore and death, however it is done tastefully therefore good for adults to watch also. Adults would also be provoked to watch it because the story line is a world wide worry which many parents and responsible adults have, that the meat is contaminated, and therefore you turn to a small town organic farmer for quality. It goes against the norm because in this case the organic farmer is actually the person who is harming the meat. This would shock this age group of the audience, but they would also find it very interesting and relevant to their lives, due to the beef scare in the 1980’s and the reoccurring food and mouth today.

The Distribution Company would be UK Film Council because it is a very British film therefore a British distributor would do it. “The UK film Council is the Government –backed lead agency for film in the UK ensuring that the economic, cultural and educational aspects are effectively represented at home and abroad.” Another company that would help fund the film would be film4; TV exhibition, film4, guarantees TV showing. Another production team would be from Surrey, something like “Surrey Screens,” therefore it would have limited screen release in Surrey as “Surrey Screens” have arrangement with Indie Cinemas, (platform release). DVD Release “Optimum Releasing” invests so they can secure DVD rights and distribution. The production company team is called “Pineapple Productions," and we made a logo to show it: