A Rhino’s Best Friend
Meet “Killer”, South Africa’s Most successful poacher-catching dog. PROJECT SUMMARY SYNOPSIS: A creative documentary about “Killer”, the six year old Belgian Malinois, a Poacher’s worst nightmare and a Rhino’s best friend. BACKSTORY: Killer travels with armed rangers to eradicate Illegal Poachers across South African National Parks, tracking them down, with a record of more than 15 arrests to date. He even gets dropped by Helicopter to hunt them down!
Creative Direction THEMES: We want to capture the essence of what it’s like being “Killer”, being a Ranger who works with “Killer” everyday and the terror that awaits any poacher in his reach, with an overall Adventurous “On the Hunt” Visual/Audible theme seen from the eyes of “Killer”, our Hero character.
A Rhino’s best Friend
SETTING: Kruger National Park, Paramount Anti-Poaching, K9 Academy, JHB
CHARACTERS/CAST: Henry Holthyzen, Johan Be Beer, Park Rangers, Killer and his handler “Amos Mzimba & a few “Fans of Killer” CINEMATOGRAPHY: Helicopter Sequences, Impactful Edit Sequences, Raw-Grunge Translation Style, Verite Investigative Journalist Segments, Slow Motion Hunt Sequences with Killer, Drone Chase Sequences, Makro-Slow Motion Sequences. Raw-Hand Held Tracking, Night-Vision/Night Sequences. ART DEPARTMENT: Realist, Exterior Driven, “In the Element of Nature” Neutral Colour Pallet with Illuminated Greens, Blues, Purples & Orange Vibrancy. EDIT/DESIGN: Past Pace rhythm, Documentary-Style Adventurous Verite Edit-Style, POV Go Pro Edit Segments, Heavy Font-Typography with simplified grudge themes. SOUND/MUSIC: Loudness, Barking, Audibly Explosive with well rounded deep urbantechno composition with an impacting drum-beat.
PRODUCER: Brigid Olen WRITER: Warrick Grier DIRECTOR: Rowen Smith CO-PRODUCTION:
South African Film Producer with more than 30 years Film & TV Experience Writer & Actor; Dredd, The Bone Snatcher, Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom Creative Director: The Shores Season II, Photographer & Writer DO Productions & Cignalhill
DO Productions (Pty) Ltd ww.doproductions.com Cell: +27(0) 82 372 2502 E: brigid@doproductions.com Skype: Brigidolen
Cignalhill (Pty) Ltd www.cignalhill.com Cell: +27(0) 82 372 2502 E: rowen.work@gmail.com Skype: Rowen Smith@Cignalhill