Costume, cast, set design, location, props

                                               Costumes 

We decided that the girl character should wear black medium length skirt with white casual top and black ripped tights. 

When it comes to costumes for bad guys we were thinking about white tank top, brown long coat on top of it, jeans and flat cap.
They second man would wear dark blue turtleneck, harrington and dark black jeans. 

Cast 

We wanted to cast our media teacher - Katie for a girl and two psychology teachers for bad guys - James and Steve. 

Set design/ location 

As our location we will use basement. 

If it comes to set design we imagined it to be rather simple - the girl sitting on the chair in the middle of the room, tighten up with a rope. The bucket with water will be outside with towel - bad guys will bring them inside at the end of the sequence. 

Props 
We need a chair, rope, family picture, bucket filled with water, towel and fake blood. 

Pitching our polished ideas to Matt and Luke

At the beginning of this week in groups we were suppose to pitch our changed and developed ideas to Matt and Luke. 

We were thinking what we like most from our previous idea - we all agreed that we want to make interrogation of a girl as a leading theme. We wanted to set in the dark and creepy basement as a place of interrogation. Our plot is mainly based on young girl being questioned by two bad guys. They want to know information about a man that they are looking for. The audience won't know who the girl is for the wanted man. She refuses to answer any questions, male characters are getting really annoyed at her so every time when she is not answering they beat her. At some point they decide to walk outside to get a bucket of water and a towel for the use of torture. As soon as they get back inside the window is opened and the girl is gone. 

Presenting our ideas to Matt and Luke 

For the last weeks we were preparing to pitch our idea to Matt and Luke. They liked our main concept of interrogation a young girl and the idea of untold story behind all that events. They were thinking about our locations, they suggested to limit it to one location to make it more realistic. If we prefer doing it in the shop only they said to maybe do it somewhere else than a Peaslake shop (which was our initial idea), due to the fact that part of our audience is going to recognize this shop since they leave near by. They would concentrate more on this shop more than our opening sequence. 

The second suggestion that they have made was that if 'bad guys' were chasing the cop for quite some time, they would know how he looks like, where he lives and general information about him, so the question was why would they need a girl ?

We have week to think about theirs suggestions, change our backstory and to polish our idea before the next pitch. 

Mood Board 

 

What is a mood board? 

It is a collection of pictures that inspired us during creating our idea, and which are giving general overall how we want our opening sequence to look like. 

Both pictues on the left side of the cars shows the way we want to shot our car scene - what kinds of shots and angles. The middle picture accuretly describes our idea - how to 'bad guys' are sitting in the front of the car and third person is visible in the back. 

The photograph of the shop on the bottom shows the kind of the corner shop that we were thinking about to set our first scene. 

Black and white portrait captures a 'scary man'. We aim to represent our bad characters in the car as frightening people. 

The picture of the kitchen in the middle top is to show the mood of our sequence - it is rather gloomy and dark. 

New idea! 

We have started creating new idea before pitching to Matt and Luke. Firstly we have turned the religious theme into detective/bad guys theme, together with this change we cut our locations only to shop and street (there was no point to use church). 

Our new idea was about a retired police officer, who was chacing a big group of criminals few years before (the audience get to know these facts together with the developing plot) and he put a few of them in jail. Now the rest of them are chasing him to revange. 

It begins with policeman buying products in the corner shop, while paying he is having conversation with the cashier, in this moment the audience will get to know that he is a policeman. 

Afterwards our main character is leaving the shop and walking along the street, on the opposite side of the street the audience can see parked car. Two 'bad guys' are sitting inside observing retired detective. One of them, on the drivers seat seems to talk on the phone - he is asking questions like Is he the right guy? Are you sure that that;s him?, but he does not get the answer so he is getting annoyed and suddenly when he is screaming for the answer he is turning around where the audience can see beaten girl, shaking and tthen she replies - 'Yes'. Subsequently we can see how bad guys are preparing their weapons. At that point the opening sequence ends.

Pitching to Mike 

Before Mike came to hear our ideas, we wrote everything down - what type of thriller we were thinking about. The whole sequence plan in details. We also had a few ideas when it comes to shots and music.

After pitching it to Mike he gave us a little feedback. Generally he liked our idea - connecting things on daily basis with murder and heads that been cut off, additionaly the idea that the main character is watched by 'bad guys', which makes the sequence more mysterious - when two stories are crossed together. 

He said that we should cut our locations (shop, street and church) to one or two because it is getting to complicated and there is no time to shoot in three different locations within one day. If we want it to be realistic and in good quality we needed to choose one or two of the ones that we had. 

Secondly he suggested that the whole religious theme is pointless - if we think that the sequence can still work without him being a priest we should go for something else. 

The last issue was at the end of our idea - if the main character was a professional murderer he would never leave head in the fridge (which Mike found to be a really nice and 'funny' idea) or the place of the crime 'open' for everyone. It just does not make sense. 

When Mike finished giving us the feedback we went to the other classroom to think about all suggestions given by Mike and we started changing our idea...