First Rough Plan

In our group we discussed what genre we would like our film to be about. Both Becky and I liked the idea of doing a Horror genre, as we felt we could do a lot of different camera shots and be creative with our plot and settings. However, Rob liked he idea of doing an action, kind of like the opening of James Bond, with the chase scene. 

The ideas that Rob gave for his action film was to have it starting in a dark room, with just a man and his laptop, then for a strange figure to come in and steal his lap top, which would lead to the chase scene. He thought this was a good idea as we could experiment with different camera angles. He also wanted it to end on a cliff hanger, which would lead to the middle and ending of our film opening, he said that we could do this by having a timer for a bomb which when it reached 0.00 it would end. 

Becky and I liked Rob's ideas, but we found that where he wanted to set it wasn't adventurous enough, as he thought about basing it in the school. Also, we both thought that it was a pretty basic idea, and our idea of having a forest setting for the film opening, we could adapt more things into it.

After talking through all the ideas and making everyone happy about what we were doing, by scrapping the idea of having a chase scene, stalker man in the forest, forest itself involved and any bombs going off, we came to the conclusion of doing our film based in a house with a twist.

Here is our plan:

We would start the film with a long distance shot of a "normal" girl walking home to her house. We would add more shots in of her walking, to make it more snappy and attractive if needed to make her walking longer, the other shots we could include are extreme close up of her feet/eyes/back of her head. When she puts her key in the door to open it, we'll have match on action with her opening the door and entering the house. So far, all would seem normal as she walks up the stairs to her room we would make her act as though she's dizzy and in pain, using a disoriented camera function, to link the action to her feelings. Once she gets into her room, still dizzy she'd start frantically looking for her pills, tipping things over, showing how important they are. Using again different angles of the whole room with her tipping things up and close ups of her face, showing emotions. Once hysterical she falls asleep and starts having, what she thinks is a bad dream. With a girl killing her mum, the girl is insane with dark black eyes, pale face, cuts over her face and hands and messy hair, using flash back kind of techniques to make this clear to the audience as to what she's dreaming, then flashing back to her moving in her bed, representing that shes still dreaming. She wakes up, walks towards the mirror, over the shoulder angle of her looking in the mirror, then using the camera as though that is the mirror, the audience can see that she is the girl she was dreaming about and questioning is she going to kill her mother? Then having her walking, as though processed by something, she walks to the landing with a knife in her hand where she sees her mother who is at the other end of landing. Then ending the opening with her mother saying "What's wrong" Then a close up of the girls black dead eyes, showing that she's not right.