I Propose...a proposal

Fri 22^nd Jan 2010

I would like to make a short-film! And luckily, so does Carlina, Tom & Harry. So we got ourselves into a group for our next film project. It was just me and Carlina today though, so we went through a few ideas of what we might like to do and came up with a few interesting ideas…

Proposal
We are asked as a group to make a short video on whichever genre we wanted. The duration has to be 5-7 minutes and can be on a pop video, documentary or short film. We had to get into groups and brainstorm ideas.
Considering which type of film people wanted to do, we decided we wanted to make a short film, due to never having done one before and having wanted to do one for ages.
We started to brainstorm on the 22nd of January. We came up with a range of ideas. We decided we would use some creative writing practice students in order to script our film. However, coming up with a base for our work would be key. Some ideas that we had are:
- school life
- love
- drugs and the effects
- paranoia
- hard hitting horror
- ghosts/paranormal
- dark or comedy?
- Mixing different genres together
- e.g. in death sequences, using red glitter for blood - slightly Tim Burton, but less Gothic.

However, we decided on a topic related to Karma, where what goes around comes around.
We've decided as a start location, to film in Bath and Bristol. Having it in this area would mean that there is less risk with the equipment and certain locations in bath, e.g. all the old roman streets look quite stylistic and genre based.
We want to make the film more stylistic than naturalistic, possibly using techniques such as flashback, stop motion and images. We want to stick with the idea of having interesting props to grab audience attention and relieve the tension in the dark atmosphere.
We want to leave the audience with something to think about. Therefore catching them with a narrative storyline will help them empathize and see how the events unfold.