Final Film Planning

Final Film Brainstorm Mindmap Video 

This is a video showing a mindmap I created when thinking of the name and institution name for our final film.  Doing a mindmap helped us branch out lots of different ideas that linked together to lead us to our final ideas.  In conjunction with using the mindmap, we also searched thesaurus' online to find more sophisticated synonyms of words as we wanted a professional, memorable, unique name. 

This is a spider diagram of further development ideas we all thought about together in class. Here we were trying to put down ideas to trigger our minds into thinking of a narrative for our final film. Although we don't plan to use all of the ideas below and we will probably adapt and change them for when we construct our actual narrative, it still gives us ideas and things to work from.

Below is a voice recording of our group discussing an idea for the narrative of our final film. From here we hope to develop the narrative and plan what and how we are going to do our final film opening sequence. We spoke about the shot types we could use, the sub-genre's and themes running throughout, characters, costumes, props and location. This was a really productive lesson and I feel the film will progress instantly from here. I'm really excited to continue the rest of the planning and complete the shooting of our film.

                                   

This sketch (right) was drawn by Jake Hayes in our group. After the discussion above, we wanted to get some ideas down on paper so we could visualize it more. The sketch shows the camera at a low angle on the ground, a wide angle revealing the road and the main character in the background. Our initial idea is that the dice are thrown along the road towards the camera and finish just in front. Here we thought about changing the depth of field (focus) between the dice faces and also between the dice and the dark figure (main character) in the back ground. I really like this effect when I have witnessed it in other films, it's really professional and captures the audiences attention. A tilt shot is then used along with zooming out to reveal the character and the surrounding ghostly estate- this is the establishing shot to set a base location for the audience to relate to.

We then used Photoshop to convert the sketch into an animated version. This gives us a good insight into what our first shot could or will look like and gives us a base to begin from with our narrative.

This is a small moodboard I created themed around our final film ideas. (*None of these images are my own, they are all taken from Google.) We chose as a group to use red dice as these are more distinct and also red symbolises death, blood and danger. The pictures of the young girls show previous films and television series featuring this type of character. All of these girls I feel have been effective in scaring the audience. Children and young girls in particular are thought of as innocent, girly and friendly in reality so to have them represented in a different light in a film elevates the scariness and surprise element. The image of the diary represents the paper the main character will have which includes the answers to his dice 'game' whereby he follows dares resulting from the number shown on the dice. The pictures of the empty streets and empty room signify the estate we will be filming on and the theme of anomalous. The Lionsgate logo featured is the institution along with our own company "Unprecedented Pictures" we hope to show in our opening credits.