Today, we were given our briefs for our projects and were put into groups of four based on what production role we wanted to do. I was happy to do any role, as I'm unsure of what I want to do for a career, so I thought it would be good to get a range of experience doing different roles. In the end I got chosen for producer in our group. Our brief was to create a 3 minute long film from a genre of our choice.
Our first challenge was to decide what genre we wanted to do. We jotted down a few ideas: horror, action, sci-fi and fantasy. We decided that a sci-fi film might be a bit too difficult to make, as we thought you really needed lots of special effects. We felt that maybe something along the lines of a psychological horror would be best due to the materials/locations we all have access to.
Once we had settled on a horror film, the ideas started flowing. Our initial idea was Creepypastas, as they are normally very creepy and very thought evoking. We're going to go away and all research different Creepypastas to try and give us some more inspiration. We also thought that maybe something about grief or loneliness would be a good idea, as it would have an emotional effect on the audience as well as scaring them.
One idea that we had was about a character who's lost someone close to them, but it is unknown to everyone else as the person they lost was kept a secret. For this idea we would only need maybe two actors, which Kira and I both have access to due to having friend's in the performing arts class, and I also live across the road from an actor who does lots of acting for my local theater: The Theater By The Lake. Another idea that we had was a zombie film. However we are going to write a detailed plot/story for each idea.
We also needed to think about locations to film our horror film, as I am the only one in our group who doesn't live in Carlisle, it was decided that we do our filming in Carlisle as the majority of our group live there. As one of our ideas was about a school girl, we thought that maybe filming at college would be good: we could film in the canteen out of hours so that it's empty so it looks like the character is eating alone. We could also go into the main building in an empty classroom, as the rooms in the art building don't really have a school-like feel. We thought that maybe a church would be good, or a forest.
Below I have attached the word documents that were written based on our initial ideas. The first one is for the zombie film idea, and then the second one is for the horror film about grief. I have also put a photo of the notes that we took during our first meeting.