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.
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