22/01 - Group Meeting 1

After our first meeting, we made significant progress:

• We discussed our individual original ideas.
• We talked about our film and TV influences for our ideas.
• We chose one idea which we will now develop into our main project.*
• We talked about the plot of the rest of the film.
• We considered whether or not our idea would work with the brief.
• We made some decisions about our opening sequence's style.

We decided to run with Kerry's idea of a young girl killing her boyfriend after a big party and discussed films and TV shows that could influence both the technical and narrative aspects of our sequence such as Criminal Justice, Hard Candy and Insomnia.

We discussed psychological thrillers and thought it may be challenging but we could still use elements of the sub genre in our thriller. We talked about 'The Shining' as an example of seeing things that aren't real.

We wanted to do something different to thrillers that we've seen and agreed that starting the sequence on the morning after the crime had been committed is a good idea and that it's also similar to the opening of 'Se7en'.

We briefly considered the STYLE:  'arty', unconventional to thrillers, out of focus shots.

The rest of the film would be about the girl's struggle to cope with and hide what she has done.
We decided on this idea as its practical (filmed in 1 house/ room where we can experiment with lighting etc) and it works to our strengths.

In our next group meeting we will put forward ideas for the development of the structure and narrative of the opening sequence as well as any shot ideas.