Monday 13 October 2008

Discussion #1: collecting first ideas

Tom and I discussed our first ideas for our opening sequence and decided that our genre will be hybridised. It will probably be based on a thriller with elements of mystery and psychological horror.
We decided to find music as a non-diegetic soundtrack first to build up our images on it. Until now we have found some instrumental parts of songs that would help to create our preferred mood.
We think about showing two different locations, a wood in Sevenoaks for the first scene and a house at night in the second one which would both be suitable conventions for our genres. In the wood scene we want to show two male characters. First a chasing sequence just showing somebody's legs and later as a jump cut seeing him lying on the ground, a different character standing next to him who might be our main character. What we do now is find ways to introduce our characters properly and to connect different ideas to a coherent story that hooks the audience but doesn't reveal to much.
I thought about some interesting camera movements that are easy to shoot but look unusual and impressive, like moving the camera "through" a closed door or shooting a part of a conversation as a long take just using camera movements instead of cutting to change angles.
We now concentrate on discussing storyline, mise-en-scene, conventions and choosing actors.

1 comment:

c_fernandez said...

Well done - some excellent ideas already. It would be a good idea to take some reccie shots and post them up on the blog as soon as you can.