Initial Ideas

in our group we have decided to do the short film task

we all agreed that this would be the best one for us to do as it is quite challenging and if done successfully, will be an impressive thing to show in an university interview. The task is very open and does not limit us with our ideas, but essentially we had to narrow down our ideas and come up with something specific.

our first ideas were to use animation and real life film mixed together, as inspired from the Daft Punk music video. we soon began to realise that this would have been too hard to achieve as we are limited with and equipment.

we then searched on the internet for 'Best short Films' and found a website that had award winnning short films, one in particular interested us most and inspired us for our new idea.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/insideindies/shortsfest/player.html?chosen=bulletproof

this link shows the film we watched, it was called 'Bullet proof Vest' and it followed the lives of american twins living in a city where gun crime is at its highest. we liked the shots used, e.g. the camera looking out of a car window and streets passing by and the use of timelapse.we searched several different videos on youtube of examples and liked the idea of a city scene. after searching for images were inspired by this and would like to have a blur of people passing by our protagonist.

we also liked the idea of following somebody's life and reporting there misfortunes. it was directed by Samantha Mortan and portrayed a powerful drama from a childs eyes. samantha used her hometown to film in, which inspires me to use rundown middle class areas from local hometowns of my own.

after discussion, we have decided to make a film that follws a child who is neglected at home and at school and feels alone. we have said that we must be careful that we do not turn our film into a documentary and so will come up with a story in our film that will have a start, middle and ending.

as the discussions went on i remembered seeing a film on channel 4 called 'The Unloved', following the story of a child brought up in an unhappy life and having to be put into care.

some ideas we have thought up of shots are using a grey tint on the camera to show flashbacks, have people in the streets walking past her in fast motion. we will show her struggling in school with her work and having to handle abuse at home from her mum. we began to think of an ending, and started of thinking of something happy and uplifting...her finding help from an outsider however after further discussion we have thought of the idea of focusing on two portaginists both having troubnles in ther lives and shots switching between the tow throughout the film, leading up to the audience assuming that the protagonists will meet and help eachother, but in the unexpected they pass in the street and that is all. all our ideas have been written on a wisemap.