Review of Our First Ideas

Yesterday on Thursday 11th we had our first meeting with Adam, our media teacher and one of the media technicians  We had about four or five ideas which we liked. After discussion we then decided that some of the ideas weren't suitable as they were either  to cliché (Forest) as people in previous years had already done them or they were to hard to film (Diving). We limited all of our ideas down to two.

We then as a group, with the media teachers spoke about expanding on these opening sequences. One of the ideas which I liked had a few complications but we managed to sort them out. We had to think of which one wouldn't have many complications to film as we are limited to just one day of filming.

One of our ideas was running through the woods which we changed so that it wouldn't be so cliché and running would also be too obvious to the audience what was going happen. We changed it so that the young girl running through the woods was walking home from a party but still had to enter the woods. We all decided though that the start of this story predicts the whole of the film and that’s way to cliché.

We also thought regarding the other ideas that some would be hard to film. We had an idea involving diving. This had lots of complications which would make it hard to film. We also only have one day to film which is a limited amount of time. But then we came up with an idea which we liked a lot more. As a group we concentrated on this one idea.

We were down to two ideas which involved the first one being set in a restaurant and there is an important person going there to eat. We are hoping to film this secretive ‘package’ being past around using motorbikes etc. Then someone bangs through the door of the kitchen and puts the package down. It’s poison and then gets put in the important mans food. That is the basic idea of our main title sequence.

Our other idea we need to develop more but the basic story line was to have a ‘wanted’ article on the floor or a deserted street. Then the man who is on the article who is 'wanted' picks it up off the floor and chucks it down. We weren't going to show his face though just his outline and start the camera on his feet and work up. We need to work into this idea as at the moment it’s not very interesting.