Week two catch up

This week we had our second group meeting, during this session and during our time in class we discussed the proposals we came up with.

This is an extract from my propasal you can find the rest of it on my individual blog, near the bottom.

My idea for the opening sequence was to have a girl tied up and gagged down in the basement and a man upstairs. it is a common girl victim male capturer theme, and these are the main points to the story.

• you wouldnt see the man upstairs but you can hear his footsteps getting louder and louder. As they do so the girl becomes more and more scared,
• the man then opens the door but the shadow is hiding his face.
• he then slowly walks down the creeking wooden stairs until he reaches the bottom,
• he then walks over to the terrified girl and strokes her hair, muttering 'everybody's been talking about you today precious'.
• She doesn't respond,
• he then walks over to the light switch which is providing minimal light to the room, switches off which causes the room to go pitch black,
• then after 4 seconds of silence
• you hear a deafening sream,
• and then the title of the film appears on screen.

The girl would be tied up and gagged, she will be wearing minimal cloths to indicate she is being held as a sex slave. This is the kind of idea i was going for:

The rest of my group liked my idea and gave me some positive feeback, they thought that although the complete 360degree shot as a good idea it would be too hard to perform correctly. Also they thought that it would give too much of the story away straight away, the shot would only take around 10 seconds at most and we would see the entire room and both characters. They thought that we should hold some information back to create suspension. 

This week we finalised our idea, and had to present it to the class, our final idea was initially a girl running through a forest and then running to a car in which a scary looking man slowly winds down the window, she gets in and then you hear screams. We then decided ourselves that this would be way too hard to shoot, so we decided on having an OCD getting home from work, walking into the house making himself a drink then going out to his shed where 4 girls in their underwear were tied up.

Teacher feedback

Our teacher thought that the location we choose for our OCD mans home was not tidy enough to pass for his house, she also didn't like the fact we had four girls in the shed she thought that it would be a gamble for all the girls to turn up, she adviced us on using just one girl instead within our group which would mean that we would be certain she woulnd't let us down. Our teacher also thought having our man coming back from work was unrealistic as the time he would come back was four, she thought we should change it to six as it makes more sense.

This is the location we had originally chosen. This location changed to my house you can see pictures of my house on our group blod under final location. We had to change our idea and then present again the next day to the class. This presentation went much better and we finally got signed off.

see you next week x