This video shows the backbones of my first ideas including genre of film and possible story lines. It includes mind maps which I created, starting with a broad genre and then narrowing down to a more specific story. I came up with 3 possible genres initially: drama/thriller, crime and adventure.
This video also shows the development stages and how one idea linked to another. There are also links and connections from one storyline in a particular genre to other story lines from other genres. From this, I am able to develop an overall idea for what the opening sequence of my film will entail including the genre and brief storyline.
One of my first ideas when it came to the mind mapping stage was that of a drama/ thriller which explored ideas from revenge on someone to escapism from a family or a gang. After I had explored different avenues of the revenge theme, I then moved on to the adventure genre and came up with ideas of someone lost on a desert island. I also came up with the idea of a family who had lost a child and were looking for the child, fearing the worst. The final theme I explored was that of a house party in the genre of crime with drugs, drinking and a possible killing.
When I had these ideas written down, I then tried to make links between my different ideas to try and come up with one that I liked and had different elements to it. One idea that I did like was the house party because, with filming in mind, the setting for a house party would be quite easy and it would also be quite easy, in the editing stage, to add effects and alter the lighting to create and eerie and tense atmosphere. With this idea, I would be able to explore the idea of crime and possible revenge.
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