Research and planning: Film trailer idea/ pitch

• The name of the film will be based on what my group decide to be the composition piece.
• The character visioned will be played by a leading male actor
• A social realist film genre
• The narrative follows the main character through struggles to become a professional pianist.
• The main character will be 17 or 18. Either way, the pianist is applying to go to a top university to study music on the scholarship programme.
• He comes from a deprived background but the one thing he treasures is his love for music
• The character can be seen to be socially inept and he gets involved with criminal activities due to being "at the wrong place, at the wrong time." He may commit criminal acts to help progress his music career such as stealing a tie for his audition/ interview. Either way, his criminal affairs are brought up within the interview. The question is, will his past effect his future career?
• Or the main character has a mental illness which interfere with his piano playing. The interference could be bipolar disorder which the trailer shows dealing with the struggles. 
• Throughout the trailer a piano track will be playing. This track is either a composition made by playing the piano or a garage band piece. The tune is dependent on the mood that is being portrayed.
• The trailer may go in full circle. It may start with the spotlight hitting the piano and his performance beginning. Then end with him at the piano, awaiting the three judges comments. Either way, throughout the trailer, there will be a series of flashbacks. The flashbacks will be what constructs the film. 
• A possible flashback which shows how he discovered his love for music is a home video. A possible idea is to link the happy memory with a memory short after of a traumatic experience such as the death of the parent who provided the instrument. 
• His deviant behavior may cost him the role of a lifetime or his illness may prevent his success.