Initial Ideas For Our Film

Within our groups we discussed various ideas that could be in our film. We discussed Narrative, Characters, Mise-en-scene, and location.

Narrative:
We cam up with a large results of ideas where we explored different type of story's that fit with a genre. In the end we came up with a idea about something predicting the future and our protagonist journey and evolution obeying these, however in the end this was told by a few students this is overly done and so we changed our point to the slightest making it forced choices.

Our protagonist was captured as a child and went missing for a month. The child then appears at the parent’s doorstop not remembering the events that happened through then. During lessons he tends to see choices picking  A or B which can be irrelevant towards what he is doing, however he gets an extreme headache when he tries to refuse and will drop to the ground gasping to breath causing him near death he will choose out of fear not to die.  A day after he’s 18^th birthday and starts he’s way to work to meet a mysterious person warning him to make the right choices from now. The choices get extreme and place our protagonist through harsh unexpected conditions leading he’s mentality to a very unstable path. With the trailer ending with he’s choice of A. Kill her or B. Kill her towards his loved one.

Characters:
We was thinking of Propp's character theory about the hero, villain, helper, princess, false hero, and the dispatcher. This is mainly for action type of films and we thought of other types of characters for specific purposes such as the police officer which could be a person who is the initiator or even a plot twist to be a false hero.

Mise-en-scene:
We had to think about sets, props, actors, costume and lighting which all falls on Mise-en-scene. We thought about what other films include and realised for costumes its mainly casual cloths during majority of the film unless there's iconic villains and superheroes in an action movie. We also included iconic props seen in various films such as with action there's a gun and within horror there's a mask or a knife foe slashers.

Location:
We went through the possible locations in our area that was available to film and would be an ideal place for our narrative. Since we was not entirely sure what the narrative genre would be leading towards we kept in mind. isolated locations was the main focus was parks, woods, the school at late night, and a warehouse which could be great for a horror or thriller. We also needed a public area such as Stratford centre, Westfield and East Ham market.

Protagonist:
We needed our protagonist to be unique because they will be the centre of attraction and could make a film good or not. We did not want to restrict our options by selecting race or gender so we cam up with how they will effect the narrative and there main personality. We thought a damaged hero would be a good addition to the narrative and could gain a more action packed film. We also included that we make a progression for the protagonist to learn and make the audience feel apart of that journey to sympathise with any mistakes that could happen to the character n the narrative.