Initial planning and ideas

Having analyzed a number of films and film openings this prompted us to produce a mind map which reflected many different aspects that we could include in our film.

The mind map features informaiton regarding Dialouge, Settings, Characters, edits, genre and camera shots and angles.

Although a handful of ideas were produced that did originally seem plauseable we had to cut them down and decide were they really going to grab the viewers attention and make them watch the rest.....

Ideas that were disregarded were as follows:

Genres: We didnt like the idea of many genres such as action simply because this would involve a large budget which we didnt have access to, it may also require stunts being performed and none of the group are trained and it may have therefore proved risky and we equally ticked off commedy quickly as commedy is very unique and it takes allot to actually reach somones sense of humor and pull it off. It would have also proved hard targetting a set group as different people have different senses of humor..... it may have therefore proved disasterous. Also being that we are creating a film opening it we were to base it on commedy and no one laughed it would be disasterous resulting in people not watching the rest.

Settings:

Having decided on a Thriller we needed to build suspense and place our film somewhere where people could relate to. We decided agaist setting the scene in any form of house as this would not have the same affect on our viewers as houses are more friendly and you dont nessacarily gain a sense of "where Is she, is she okay?".

Character:

It is important to our film that the character is young, innocent and appears vulnerable. Throughout the films the group has watched an analyzed male dominance is a real issue whereas females are often played down to look weaker.

Generally males are reffered to as a strong figure and someone who can fend for the themselve whereas a females cannot. We therefore decided that we would need a female actress.

Sound:

We chose not to use any dialouge in our film as our film is based around 1 person being lost and confused. By taking away dialouge it keeps the viewer in suspense and keeps the questioning what is going through "Rose's" head.

The initial story board/mind map has helped us to come to some conclusions about what we are doing and where we are doing it. Below is what the group has decided on:

Genre: Thriller/Horror

We thought that a thriller would be exciting to produce and it would also allow us to use an array of media skills in order to appeal to our auidience and make are film interesting.....

Settings: We have set our film deep in the woods where it is quite condense with shrubs abd woodland which introduces the idea of vulnerability. It is important that are character is small in comparrison to the large space around her as this again emphasizes her position amougst her unfimiliar surroundings.

Chracter:

A young female has been chosen to represent our film dealing with the issues of vulnerability as the stereotypic refrence to men having a stronger charecteristic and dealing with things better would not fit the part.

Sounds:

The movie will feature no dialouge, only non-diagetic music which will be put into place to make the film run smoother and equally enhance the viewers experience. We have not chosen any dialogue because this will place emphasis on the element of confusion and mind tricks enabling the viewer to percieve it a unique way.

We have planned to place sound effect into the film such as deep breathing and rustling leaves etc however this may prove difficult as we intend to put contrasting music into the film also.