Devolping Ideas

In todays lesson, we began to develop the plot ideas of our film project and also started thinking about the technical aspects of our film e.g. where we are going to film scenes, actors and props etc. Which we would then present to the class. Firstly, our group started on developing the plot outline of our film.

We decided that our film would be about a group of people who are filming a documentary, and unexpectedly discover a creature of some sort while filming the documentary, from there we began thinking about scene locations. We felt that the locations we would use would have to set the atmosphere and tone of our film, we felt that some sort of open grass area with a lot of trees etc. would be a good type of location for the scenes where we are trying to create a documentary environment. We then developed on this idea and came up with concept that some sort of graveyard area (such as the one at St Jiles Church which is only down the the road from the school), would be an even better area for our film because it would link in with the idea of a ghosts and monsters, we could portray the graveyard as the cause or the explanation behind why the ghost or monster is there. We then came up with the idea of combining the school with our film opening and using a part of the school as a scene for our film opening e.g. one of our ideas was that the person filming the documentary could run from the graveyard to the school for refuge. As a whole, we felt that the two locations that we suggested, would be good because they are very local and would be easily accesed. The only problem we would have is asking the owner of St Jiles church for access to the graveyard.

After talking about these ideas, we then presented them to the class, our teacher (Mr. Deen) said we had good ideas, but we had to think more indepthly about our choice of location and how we actually intend on filming our opening. We were then set homework in which we had to discuss with our groups three things we need to do during this week, my three tasks were to update my blog (which I have now completed), come up with ideas for questionaire questions and go on the Hertwood House Media channel on youtube, to look at the film openings they have as a part of our research into similar media texts. Mr Deen also told us that it would be beneficial to look at some of Hertwood Houses work as we could use it as a guideline to see what we needed to do in order to gain the top grades for this project.