PLANNING: ADVANCED PRODUCTION INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

PLANNING: ADVANCED PRODUCTION INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

First Ideas

I was thinking about how we could start our production, our opening sequence and the plot of our film. I have thought about setting our film in an interview situation. Meaning that we would borrow ideas from our how we shot our continuity editing. As we used a fancy room, where we were able to test different camera angles and test out a much shortened version of our film. 

My production team was also thinking of basing our plot around a simple plot thread. We do not want our film to become to complicated. We want to be able to show good camera angles, established plot lines whilst also keeping realistic. We have two ideas that we wanted to implement into our film, we want to establish a gangsta feel to the movie, without straying into having action that we would be unable to film. We were thinking of having a gangsta meeting followed by an underground society that we would be able to tackle with different camera angles and non diegetic sound.

We would like to implement our ideas we had while filming our continuity editing. We really enjoyed finding different angles we could film with, such as the mirror shot you can see above. From this we would like to make a similar film, or similar filming style. We also have access to a large, old fashioned building with many rooms which have older and antique looking furniture, allowing for a perfect gangsta vibe to come across.


Newer ideas

We have talked as a group and have decided to focus on having a movie about a girl being stalked by her 'best friend'. This girl is being stalked by her best friend who is obsessed with her. We have thought of a name for our movie, called "Happy Life". We chose this name as it is ironic, as how messed up the 'best friend' character is, he is not happy. He wants this Happy Life he thinks he would have if he was with the girl.

Updated Version

We have completely changed our final Short Film idea. We have now chosen to do a supernatural based film. Our current plot, follows a young teenage girl who wakes up seeing her family portrait in the background everyday. She then notices people are disappearing one by one from the image. However, we have included a supernatural element into this, we have used inspiration from many films such as 'Back To The Future'. 

We are planning to include many enigmas codes. Engimas Codes to entice the audience in and help move the the narrative on. For examples; a black silhouette of a man who is watching her sleep, this man could be her father. Another element, is when a the teenage girl is reading a book then a man comes up close behind her and whispers "Hello, Alice" making her jump up not looking behind and locking her door, shots of her panting and scared for her life, this will create suspense and ambiguity.