After having voted for the Thriller Ideas that we each found the most workable, our teacher organised the 10 of us into two groups of three and one group of four. I was placed in a group with Sarah Kurzrock and Hermione Cameron, to be working on Hermione's idea.
The initial idea involved a larger cast of actors, more set building and design and a lot more preparation in order to make the whole idea make sense.
Our first meeting was a bit of a struggle because the idea itself is more symbolic and metaphorical rather than literal and this factor made it more challenging to visualise and plan. We ended up changing Hermione's idea rather a lot ending up with this;
The sequence begins on a close up of female hands building a wall in the dark.A non-diagetic voice over in the backgroundbegins the mantra of: 'good fences make good neighbours' (repeated over & over getting louder and louder) A jump cut to an extreme close up of the girl's eyes flying open, she is between the ages of 16-18 waking up in a pristine white bed in a white room. Camera tracks out to wide shot, revealing that the girl is strapped to her bed by leather bands on her wrists and ankles, she is evidently in a mental institution. The camera then tracks forward into the girl's eye, as if going into her mind like in a reverie. We next see a shot of her walking down a long white corridor, the diagetic sound of dripping is heard. She frantically opens doors along the corridor but behind each door is just the wall. She is screaming now and she runs desperately through the bright light at the end of the corridor. A jump cut to another shot of her in bed, still screaming with doctors holding her down.
We were, however, aware that this idea would still be very open to change throughout the filming process because of its metaphorical nature.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009
Pitched Ideas
When pitching our ideas, the whole class had to take it in turns to describe our ideas as simply as possible so that the class could comprehend them and make an informed decision.
Of the ideas pitched, my favourites were Leo's, Brett's, and Hermione's (which is the one i will be working on).
Leo's idea was set in a large house and based inside a young boy's bedroom at night. He looks at his watch and it is as if he is waiting for something, 3Am approaches and as it does there is a montage of the boys face, his watch ticking and a grandfather clock pendulum, the tension builds with the music and at 3am a young girl's ghost is seen sitting on a rocking chair playing with the boy's toys. He cowers under his duvet, his last protection and all goes quiet so that we think the girl has gone, he looks up and there she is, lying in bed with him, perhaps she says something scarily innocent like ''I like your teddy bear.'' And then fade to black, and the title comes up.
Brett's idea was very different to Leo's, it is set in Victorian times and filmed in black and white, it is based on the story of Jack the Ripper and the camera shows a prostitute on a street, then there is the montage of seeing him in a room with millions of photographs of her and other victims and then ways in which to kill them, then back to the real view of the two of them talking on the street without ever seeing his face, and continuing back and forth until eventually, he takes her down the street and brutally murders her.
The last idea i voted for was Hermione's which was slightly more quirky and psychological to begin with and more up to the audiences imagination because it didn't really have a fixed story line. It was to begin with three people, each a different race, waking up in different bedrooms and then walking outside only to realise that they were trapped in some kind of labyrinth of opposite colour to them, for example, a black man in a white corridor. They then begin to walk around the labyrinth opening doors, banging into walls and all the while, being watched by us, the voyeurs. Her idea didn't really have an ending to it but it got me thinking about it, and now that i am in the group working on her idea with her, we have changed it and made it a little more finished and tightened. :)
Even though i hav'nt mentioned all the idea's i think most of them were very good and almost all could have been made into plausible thrillers.
Of the ideas pitched, my favourites were Leo's, Brett's, and Hermione's (which is the one i will be working on).
Leo's idea was set in a large house and based inside a young boy's bedroom at night. He looks at his watch and it is as if he is waiting for something, 3Am approaches and as it does there is a montage of the boys face, his watch ticking and a grandfather clock pendulum, the tension builds with the music and at 3am a young girl's ghost is seen sitting on a rocking chair playing with the boy's toys. He cowers under his duvet, his last protection and all goes quiet so that we think the girl has gone, he looks up and there she is, lying in bed with him, perhaps she says something scarily innocent like ''I like your teddy bear.'' And then fade to black, and the title comes up.
Brett's idea was very different to Leo's, it is set in Victorian times and filmed in black and white, it is based on the story of Jack the Ripper and the camera shows a prostitute on a street, then there is the montage of seeing him in a room with millions of photographs of her and other victims and then ways in which to kill them, then back to the real view of the two of them talking on the street without ever seeing his face, and continuing back and forth until eventually, he takes her down the street and brutally murders her.
The last idea i voted for was Hermione's which was slightly more quirky and psychological to begin with and more up to the audiences imagination because it didn't really have a fixed story line. It was to begin with three people, each a different race, waking up in different bedrooms and then walking outside only to realise that they were trapped in some kind of labyrinth of opposite colour to them, for example, a black man in a white corridor. They then begin to walk around the labyrinth opening doors, banging into walls and all the while, being watched by us, the voyeurs. Her idea didn't really have an ending to it but it got me thinking about it, and now that i am in the group working on her idea with her, we have changed it and made it a little more finished and tightened. :)
Even though i hav'nt mentioned all the idea's i think most of them were very good and almost all could have been made into plausible thrillers.
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