Old Idea

We started our planning on Psychological thrillers, and gathered ideas together on how we could acheive a good opening sequence. We got some inspiration from different abstractt music videos, such as Rihanna - Disturbia. This was useful as we used some of the shots, costumes and lighting for inspiration. We designed a mind map, with all our ideas summarised together. We planned out and organised what times we were available and a suitable location to shoot. Our plan for our opening sequence; A disturbed girl, who has had a difficult childhood, lost both her parents and is abandoned from a young age. She has a lack of parental guidance and blames her grandmother for leading her a stray. This results in her living her life isoclated in a metal home. However she has her own flat, yet she always seems to have reoccuring relapses and being readmitted to the unit. She is an alcoholic and also takess drugs to numb her pain, she feels like she has nothing left and nothing to live for. Also whilst she was growing up her grandmother blamed her for her parents deaths, and so whenever she would look after the girl she would treat her very spitefully. The opening title sequence ends on a cliff hanger with the girl resenting her grandma and is plotting to kill her. We thought this idea would be easier than we expected. This is because our planning ran smoothly and we had plenty of ideas which we thought would be easy to film and would look effective. However when it came to the actual filming, we realised it was a lot harder to pull our opening sequence together without it looking unrealistic and amateur. We filmed over a period of two full days and two half days but how ever much we tried our overall result failed. The lighting we wanted to use was too dark and the quality was extemly poor. As well as this we were sharing a camera with another group, yet we never recieved the tripod which meant the camera work was shakey and out of all the footage we filmed we were not satified and did not want to use it. This was a real disappointment because all three of us put a lot of time and effort into the filming and included others in the seqence which meant they had also put a lot of their time and effort in for us as well. We didn't let this hinder us and didn't retaliate negatively, instead we rose above this situation and started planning an alternative idea straight away. We sat down together and though of a more simplistic idea which would work better for us and was more realistic for our means. This idea consists of a more fun approach including some elements of our previous idea. The opening sequence involves a young teenage girl 'Ziggy Clements' who lives with her parents but rarely see's them due to her rebellious lifestyle and unbothered attitude towards members of society. The film follows the story of Ziggy's life, highlighting all the good and bad times she experiences including the boy she falls in love with and the troubles she faces. So far our idea has gone to plan and we are satisfied with what we have filmed. We are still working on aspects of the opening title sequence and have considered editing and different ways in which we can make the movie look interesting and appealing. We are still thinking about what we should call our movie and what genre it should be labbeled under.

Michelle Whitney and Robyn Bostock