Initial Ideas

For the making of the film, I am going to be working alongside a peer, Abigail Stafford. We agreed to work together as we have similar styles and techniques within media and feel it appropriate to combine our individual skills to create a great piece of work. We work extremely well together and will both contribute personal ideas to create one short film.

To begin the process into the planning of our own film, we made initial Mind Map diagrams. This was to just both put down any ideas or relevant knowledge that we had. After researching into existing short films and film trailers, it gave me a wider opinion on genre's for example, showing the ways in which different genres are portrayed within film and how this effects the type of target audience.

On out first mind map, shown above, we briefly put down our main ideas and options we had to make before moving further within the making. Our first option was whether to create a short film or film trailer, after researching both. Also what audience we wanted our short film to aim at. This is a crucial decision within the making, as it effects how we would decide other things within it further on. Our narrative ideas/plot were also recorded. These were just options we were drawn to and feel what we could work best on to develop it into a good story. Genre's were also noted, giving the options we would essentially again want to work on, or feel we would do best. After analysing existing film's, and focusing in depth on the use of camera angles and shots which create a good frame and work effectively to help portray an event or situation, we also put down some techniques that we were influenced by and definitely wanted to try and use within our work and  try and fit them in where suitable within filming.

Our second mind map, was a recording of the development of our initial idea's. After looking at the options we had from our first mind map, we unanimously decided on what we wanted to do and then developed these into more in-depth idea's. We decided that we wanted to create a Short film. This was a joint decision, in which we both felt more confident in portraying, and had more ideas for. We wanted to create and intriguing and engaging story line and to do this we felt a Short film would be a more appropriate decision to do this. The second diagram shows how we started to establish a Narrative story/plot. We wanted to take a risk within our film and chose to 'distrupt' Todorov's Narrative theory (briefly mentions in research into short films).

Above is our third and final mind map we created. This was a more in-depth brief summary of our initial plans. It shows we have established a clear idea of what we want to do, the plot, and the genre. We have also starting to look into what we want to name the film. The dual narrative idea is something we definitely wanted to keep with and working more into each side of the plot is also referenced.