What happens next?

At the end of this week or at the beginning of the next one we are going to present our ideas to Mike. We are going to get some feedback, what to change, what is well done, if he sees any problems. We will discuss location, story line, if we need any permissions to shoot and our basic plan. After that we will need to finalize our idea and decide upon who do we want to cast, what props do we need, what music should we use to build up the tension. We also need to draw our storyboard and decide on our shots. Due to the fact that we want to shoot in the market and local church we need a permission to shoot there. 

Working in groups 

At the end of last week w have been devided into groups of 4. In these groups we are going to shoot our thriller opening sequences. I am working with Hugo, Tommaso and Kirill.

We started discussing or ideas - if to combine them in some way, to pick one or to come up with completly new idea together. It was hard to connect our ideas and we couldn't decide who's idea we like the most as a group so we decided to start from the beginning. We started our brain storm from location because during the weekend together with Tommaso we found an amazing church in London, where the interial looked like a militarian ship. It would suit really good for the thriller - there were different rooms with ropes, knifes, hooks and there was also a chapel.


From the beginning our main theme was a religious/gothic opening sequence. Apparently we are not allowed to shoot away from school or Guildford so we abandoned the idea of church in London.

While working on our idea we agreed on everything, we only argued about little details. The whole process of creating our concept went fast.

Our opening sequence is going to be about priest and his morning routine. Firstly we want to show how he is well known and liked among local people by having conversations with shop keeper and a pedestrian. Then when he is walking to the church we can see him as someone is observing him, but the audience doesn't really know who. He is entering the church and makes the sign of the cross. Next he is walking to the small room to put products that he bought in the fridge and then we speculated to show a head of a dead person in that fridge. At the end the priest would give the audience a visual tour arounf that room showing typical equipment used while commiting a crime.

Presenting initial ideas to class 

At the beginning of this week we were suppose to present our favourite initial idea to the whole class. We got a paper from Katie, where we can write our opinions about other's presentations - what went well/wrong or if we see any problems. 

Everyone needed to talk about the whole story line of the movie and then about the opening sequence in detail. 

I choose to present the idea about missing girl. 

My whole story line was about young murder, who kills teenage girls, but at some point he just cannot help it - it becomes an addiction. He knows that it's really awful so he decides to kill himself. The girl at the beginning was just one of his first victims. 

My opening sequence would be concentrated on girl's morning and things that she is doing on the daily basis. Only thing that was suspicious for her was that her mom did not wake up, despite the fact that the girl was shacking her body and asking loudly to give her a drive to school.  She does not realize that she is gone until nobody is noticing her in school and she sees 'missing person' posters around town. 

The whole group generally liked my idea, they only said that the fact that the girl is asking her mother to give her a lift to school does not make sens if she finally walk on her own.