Our Three Ideas

Emma, Matt and I did some brain storming and came up with 3 ideas that stood out to us. We had to concentrate on fitting the brief, as many of our initial ideas did not conform to the brief and would've been much more appropriate for out final piece.

Idea No. 1:

We liked the idea of police interrogation, so the opening fitting the brief (someone sat in a room, another person crosses and sits opposite them), with the underlying plot shown through flashbacks. For example, we came up with the idea of having a broken down car scenario going wrong, leaving the audience with a cliffhanger ending. Matt and I agreed that as an idea it would have been a lot of hard work and would've required a lot of thought and development. Neither of us have very developed knowledge of Mac voice recording software for the interrogation scene, so decided that it would be better to reconsider that idea for our final production.

Idea No. 2:
For our second idea, we developed on the police interrogation idea, but as our main storyline we fell upon the idea of a party going wrong, ending with our protagonist, a teenage girl (to show vulnerability and display a stereotypical example of the thriller genre), being chased through the woods, ending dramatically with a zoom out from the woods and a scream. This would've been brilliant as so many camera angles could have been incorporated; point of view shots as she ran through the woods, high angles and low angles, pans etc to intensify the action, and it would've also been very easy to include good shot transitions and camera movement. However, we decided against this idea in the end as we weren't sure if our actors/actresses would've been right for the characters. Also, we agreed that there would be issues with lighting conditions so decided it would've been better to reconsider that idea.

Idea No. 3:
Our third idea was much more realistic than the other two, we thought it sensible to use an environment that would be really easy to film in and an area where we would not need filming permission. Matt and I thought we could use our Sixth Form block to film in, so use a two classrooms and the staircase to film in. Our idea was to have Calum as our protagonist and Felix as a supporting character, with Amy as our victim. Our storyline would begin with Felix sat at a table, he and Calum entering the room and they exchange some brief dialogue, and then Calum is to leave Felix in the room, walk downstairs, enter another classroom and open the cupboard at the back, with Amy sat tied and hidden in there, with bloodied and bruised. We preferred this idea to all the others as it kept the audience very much guessing, and the camera angles we could incorporate would be very vast. The lighting used would just be the school lighting, which was naturally dim anyway, aiding the filming process as it made it look slightly more eerie etc. We also agreed that the camera angles we could use was very vast, for example, we could lean the camera over the edge of the stairwell as Calum walked down, presenting us with a very good aerial shot.