One idea was about a psycho path living next door to a family who moved away because of his weird attitude. The rest of the story then leads onto the idea of a new family moving in and who of which are completely unaware of who lives next door. The opening sequence idea was to have a car pulling in next door, supposedly meant to be the new family moving in, and the positioning of the camera is meant to be from the psycho's perspective. We analysed the negatives of how it would be hard to film somewhere where we could use two houses next to each other and to film from both houses - it wouldn't have been easy to keep asking neighbours to film from one house to another, and even if one house had said yes, it's neighbour might've said no.
One of my ideas was 'The terrorist' idea. This would've been hard as the opening sequence consisted of a lot of adults and a lot of action going on. It would've also been hard to film in an office that would provide my group to allow them to explore through all parts of the buildings as safety issues would start to occur.
We really, as a group, had to think of whether our ideas were reasonable because even though it may have been a fun or exciting idea, we could not put too much in the opening sequence, and most of the time, it probably wouldn't be reasonable to film because of location etc. One of the ideas included the location of Thailand, and we couldn't fly out to Thailand for one day of filming. It doesn't give enough context if you're not actually in Thailand - an audience want to view the location so they're familiar with where the characters are so we have to make it believable for them. If you were to recreate the idea of being in Thailand but were in England, you wouldn't create that same context.
Finally, my group managed to agree on two final ideas. These ideas were: 1. My idea - 'The letter' idea, which was about a letter, worth a lot of money, to be passed on for a young girl. The opening sequence would've consisted of a group of criminals who trash the girls house to try and find the letter, and then later on revealing the dead mother, but it not being revealed of who she is as we have no information, besides the fact that the house being trashed is probably hers. 2. Chris' idea - 'The Camera Man' idea, a story about a man who has an obsession with photographing one of his neighbours. He captures her every day movement and studies it. The idea is that woman being photographed finds the website with the photos of her on, and she is trying to trace who it is. We are never shown 'the camera man's' face. The opening sequence would be simplistic of the man setting up his camera, his website, his notes and pictures. Him scurrying through papers, writing notes, filing notes and sticking them up on his wall etc.
With our final 2 ideas in our heads, we really had to discuss and create pros and cons for each idea, so we knew that we were to pick the right one. At the end of my lesson, were still indecisive of which idea to proceed in. This was because we really had to consider both ideas.
'The Camera Man' had pros of: it was simpler, and more easier to achieve, precise in what we wanted from it (shots, angles, editing), the fact it was original, and because it was a more simplistic idea, it would be more achievable in the camera/editing etc. rather than getting to caught up in the story at the beginning, we only needed one actor and we had quite a few prop ideas we could experiment with. It's cons then were: maybe it would be too simplistic, making it boring, and if whether when filming it, would there be enough to film? Would we attract an audience?
'The Letter' had pros of: it would be more fun and involving because of the idea of trashing a house, there could be loads of things within the mise en scene to experiment and to have fun with, it would make the opening sequence quite punchy and get right into the mood and action of the story. It's pros could then back up questions like: would it be too detailed? Would it be the case that it would be too much work, especially if when you shot a bit, whether you could shot it again because it was too hard to recreate the set of how it was before and lastly, would we be able to find a location/house that was suitable to the characters context and whether it would actually be possible to trash the place? (haha)
At the end of the lesson, as I said, we were still undecided but our direction, as a team, seems to believe the possibilities of 'The Camera Man' idea would be more achievable to do.
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