In today's lesson, we had to pitch our thriller idea to our teacher and the two of the other media technicians. We had previously come up with the idea of having a chase between two characters like in a clip that we saw earlier on in the year from the drama series Torchwood.
However when we got to the classroom to prepare, a member of te group came up with two other good ideas.
One was called "Walk to Death" which was about a girl who was walking towards a tree with a rope that was hanging from it. We planned to shoot the scene from different angles yet without showing her face. The girl was then going to tie the rope round her neck and then we would film over the shoulder of another person who is just watching her. The scene ends without knowing whether or not the other person will stop the girl from killing herself.
The other idea was called simply “Downloaded” and it was similar to a clip that we were shown earlier by one of the technicians . It was simple as it involved someone downloading files onto a computer with a lot of close-ups of their face and then a scene where the same character does a very slick switch with brief cases with another person.
We were torn between the “Chase” and “Walk to Death” so we asked our teacher what he thought and he liked the “Chase” because he said it would be good to do a fast-paced chase scene, however we didn’t have the facilities to make this work successfully. And also, we couldn’t have just a scene with a chase, as having a storyline to why there was a chase going, on took too much time- of which we didn’t have. We got another opinion from a technician who said that the “Walk to Death” was a better choice yet it sounded similar to a horror, so he helped us move it along a bit and develop it so that it wasn’t so gory. We changed the storyline to a girl tossing and turning in her sleep then we would fade into her dream and then see her walking towards the rope, yet not seeing her face, and then having her feet dangling to represent what happened. We would then show her face to show it is the girl dreaming of killing herself.
She is going to wear a long, white dressing gown and her hair is going to be out and messy, obviously showing that she doesn't care about her appearence in this moment in time; she is solely focusing on what she came to do.
When delivering the pitch, we were all happy with the storyline but we still haven’t found a location for us to film the tree scene in. However when it comes to sound, lighting and editing we were all quite confident that the scene will be a success. We are not going to start filming on Tuesday, but instead on the Friday, when our next lesson takes place, on Tuesday's lesson we will be planning each shot perfectly.
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