HEROES

BY DANNI MANLEY

HEROES BOOK

INTO A FILM

I have chosen to create an adaptation of Heroes the book by Robert Cormier into a film

I have chose to make Heroes into a film because it wont work as well if I made it into a TV series

The book only has three main characters so it would be easy to cast three actors

The filing location won’t be a problem because it is set on two or three locations

One of the locations is a village in France and a battle filed

The third location is French town in America. Instead of filming in the actual town we will create a set to use

NARRATIVE AND

PLOT

The story it told in the present

However it has lots of flash backs. It has flashbacks so the audience can see and under stand why the character is the way he is and also why he wants to carry out his mission

The film only has one storyline, it also has a lot of subplots to build it up

The film is about a boy called Francis who grows up in Frenchtown, his Mother and Father has died. He lived with a woman called Mrs. Blende. He is now 18. He went to war but got his face blown off by a grenade

In the film he has flash backs to when he was 15 and a famous man called Larry LaSalle moved to Frenchtown and everyone loved him

He had a girlfriend called Nicole Reared

When Larry came back from the war the locals threw a party for him. Larry and Nicole stayed after the party and he raped her. Francis found out and felt guilty so he went to war to try and get him self killed

All he managed to to is get his face blown off

In the present he goes to visit Nicole who now lives in New York and that’s when the story ends

GENRE

The genre of the film is a historical drama

It is period drama because it is set in WWII

Its a drama because it is realistic film about WWII and it is not a

fantasy

This movie is a realistic movie about realistic events that could

have happened to a boy in WWII

CHARACTERS IN

THE BOOK AND FILM

young Nicole -

older Nicole – Keira Knightly/Gemma Arterton

young Farces -Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Older Francis -

young Larry – David Tenant

Older Larry

Mrs Blenda – Maggie Smith/

Arthur Rivier – Robert Patios

Joey LeBlanc – Asa Butterfield

Enrico Rucell

Francis Mom -Helena Bonham Carter

Francis Dad – Simon Pegg

Drug store owner – Colin Firth

Mother/Sister (teacher) – Julie Andrews

Uncle Louis – Ben Kingly

Married couple – Rupert Grint and Kimberly Nixon

SET AND

LOCATIONS

Wreck center

St Jude’s club

School

Mrs Blenders tenement

Larry LaSalls tenement

Nicole’s house

Village

Battle filled

Street in France

London street

Hospital in London

TARGET

AUDIENCE

The target audience are Teenagers (class E).

This movie is mostly aimed at people who are studying the book

in school.

I want to keep it like the book so the audience who have read the

book can visually see the emotions of what the characters go

through.

Out side of education the film is aimed at females because it is a

female type of movie.

The genre of the film is a historical drama

It is period drama because it is set in WWII

KEY SCENES

First key scene is when Francis and Nicole start dating

Second key scene is when Larry rapes Nicole

The third key scene is when Francis try's to kill him self

Fourth key scene is when Francis goes to kill Larry

ETHICAL ISSUE

One of the ethical issues that seems to stand in the way is that the

young boy at the age of fifteen is considering committing suicide

after a trustworthy man raped his girlfriend

This might be an ethical issue because the man is seen as a hero

and a good man

15 year old gets raped, the audience won’t see what is happening

they only hear what is happening while they are see Francis

reaction

FINANCE

To create this movie I will need to have a UK budget for about £20,000,000. In the movie I wont be using CGI

It wont be any CGI so the movie look as real it can be

Instead of using CGI I will use real bombs/explosions for the battle filled scenes

I will have a set of the village made because that is regally used in the movie

However If I find a location that looks like my interruption of the village in my mid to save money I will use that as a location

I will pay the three main actors £500 a day

The other characters will be paid £250 a day

All of the extras will be paid £50 per day

This film will take six weeks to six months to film

The budget will also include props, costumes, make-up/hair products, cast and crew hire, cameras, lights, advertisements, copyright distribution ect

CINEMATIC IDEAS

It is shot with modern technology

Miss-en-scene is 1940’s style

Flashback has old style look as if it is real footage from the war

Like the Imitation game film

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