Throughout our process of coming up with our A2 idea we have had three different ideas within three different genres which include Horror, Mystery-Drama and Drama.
Our idea
This was our initial idea and plan for our first film. Our first film was a horror, which we were planning to be similar to the film Ouija where the plot would follow a girl who was using a ouija board after the death of a friend. However, after we got a visit from Bournemouth University media lecturer Jan who gave us a talk about realistic story lines and technical codes we decided that our original idea was not going to work as we did not have enough time for backstory and the money to provide the effects that horrors use, etc making a haunting. When we came to this decision, we were completely stuck of what to do next as we had our hearts set on this idea and had been planning it for a while.
Our plan on the left was our initial ideas of our film which we did on word documents. We now realise that this idea was not a sufficient one in which we could of achieved in our current student circumstances where we have a limited budget and do not have the editing software to portray hauntings, items moving across rooms.
Our second film idea-
Our second idea was a mystery film, we didn't get round to making a plot before we found out that we would not be doing a mystery film. We wanted our film genre to be different from last year so we can build on the information we learnt about genre and use it for a new genre this year. We found that many mystery films involve crime and last year our film was based around crime.
Our final idea which we are currently working on now, is a film about bullying. We found that this would be a good issue to do a film about as I do sociology and psychology and Danni does English so we both have an understanding of bullying and the way it effects people around you. Bullying is a sensitive subject so we cannot get real life accounts of it apart from online ones that are made anonymous on forums. The range of short-films involving bullying and normal films show bullying as a very exaggerated thing and not shown from a real life point of view. Bullying films nearly always have fights, prints of embarrassing pictures all over school rules which are honestly really inaccurate. In reality, bullying can stem from something small to something very big in a number of texts; and a main form of bullying is through rumors that people fabricate. Danni & I are aiming to produce our bullying film as a realistic way of showing how bullying effects people, with no dramatic suicides, no crazy fight scenes etc.
