Saturday, January 30, 2010

Group Final Idea

After thinking it through and getting feedback from both our teacher and our class, we made a final decision for our opening sequence. It will include;
- The build up and act of rape at night time
- A young woman, around the age of 18, getting raped in her own flat
- The girl is very average - enjoys going out with her friends to get drunk but isn't 'off the rails', just naive and unlucky
- One night she is followed home from a night out and shoved through her door - with the raping insinuated
- The girl will be telling the story in a police interview - we will include flashbacks of what happened that night which is an abstract, unique technique not often seen in films
- The man will be very dominant in the rape, showing a physical advantage in an aggressive, angry manner as opposed to sexual or passionate

Monday, January 25, 2010

Group Meeting

Once we had individually come up with a few ideas, we each proposed them to the group and together decided what our sequence would consist of. We all decided that the genre would be thriller but the sub-genres and themes for thriller are very wide so in order to narrow down our options and become clearer of what we wanted, we watched some past projects.

As a group we decided that in the past, two themes had worked well for thriller; rape and stalking. We thought we could do something along these lines and all tried hard to think of an idea that would be both effective and achievable.

Remembering a particular reconstruction i had seen on 'Crimewatch' last year, i found the clip on YouTube and the group decided that if our sequence was filmed similarly, it could be brilliantly effective - and hopefully not too hard.



Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Individual Initial Idea

After being given our brief, we were told to go off individually and come up with some ideas which could then be put forward to the group - taking our group idea from those. The group decided that we'd focus around the horror/thriller genre but this could vary if needed.

Initial Idea 1:
My first idea was based around a paedophile. I wanted the film to be about a man who stalks a young girl - this could be portrayed through him having pictures of her, following her online through social networks and also watching her from a distance as she goes about her life. The opening sequence could be of the man watching the girl from the school gates as she is picked up by her mother. The sequence would be made up of long shots of the girl and the playground and also close ups of the paedophiles face to build up his character.

Initial Idea 2:
My second idea was of a rapist story. I thought that the opening sequence of our film could be of a man as he followed a young woman on her way home at night. The girl would be very drunk and unaware that she was being followed and at the end of the sequence, the man would make his move - this insinuating that he'd raped her. The rest of the film would be about the girl as she came to terms with the rape experience and tried to get over this emotional experience.