Initial Ideas Expanded

This lesson we picked two of the ideas we liked from the spider diagram completed last lesson. Two were enough to choose as we made detailed notes and discussed ideas further. We decided on the spoof style horror film and band mockumentary as both ideas are quite different yet could work really well.

Our second idea is a mockumentary of a band competition. We liked this idea as it is unique and is open to lots of ideas from both me and Beth. We expanded on our idea from last lesson, deciding to carry out mini interviews with smug and catty musicians arguing pathetically. The script will give way to many funny lines which will add to the success of our short film. We could include clips of copy free live performances to give our film a realistic edge. Although we know where we want to go with this idea we are still unsure on the ending, debating whether to end with the winner of the band competition performing, or just a random performance. We made a list of things we need to sort before filming. Top of the list was access to a performance area, preferably a pub type venue. If we can’t film in this type of venue it will be hard for us to carry out our idea. As well as this we have much research to carry out omockumentaryes in general (i.e. The Office) as well as magazine interviews with arrogant bands currently out, allowing us to generate ideas. Again we came up with a contingency plan noting some problems we may be faced with. The first problem we were aware of was the amount of actors we will need to use and the difficulty of getting them all together at the same place at the same time, and being able to actually control them between us. Weather and lighting we decided shouldn't interfere with the filming as we are indoors so lighting can be easily manipulated and obviously the weather outside won't affect us or the equipment inside. Out of the two we are more swayed at the minute towards the mockumentary as we believe if done right and we plan well could leave us with a fantastic piece at the end.

In this lesson we also created a research plan informing us of what research we need to carry out for our actual film and ancillary tasks and the resources (i.e. Internet/DVDs) we will need to do this. We have also mentioned the vital use of quantitative and qualitative primary as well as secondary data to make our research more valid, reliable, representative and personal.

At home I also created a mood board, including colour schemes and poses, which gave me and Beth a burst which we could refer back too when needed. This was done on an A4 piece of paper and I used images from magazines, leaflets and newspapers to fill the page.