First responses to the brief

On Thursday January 20th, our group first discussed our thoughts on the brief during our lesson. We were all excited about the task and couldn't wait to get started.
To begin with we decided to choose what genre we were interested in, after a few suggestions including comedy and drama we narrowed it down to the genres of: Dark Comedy and Thriller
At the end of this meeting we decided the best thing to do was to go home and think up an initial idea (film sequence) for the next day. When planning we were advised to refer to a list of 8 questions which told us if our ideas were too complicated.
Friday 21st

We met again during a lesson and presented each other our ideas.

James - Dark Comedy. James - Dark Comedy. A boy who has phsycological issues,becomes fixated on a girl. After months of stalking one day after school he follows her and kidnapps her believing she will marry him. The film gains it comedic elements from an awkward stand off between the two in his parents garage.

Phillipa - Thriller. A male teacher at an all girls school is in fact a paedophile and obsessed with one of his students. The opening sequence featured him going home and revealing a wall full of pictures of the innocent girl.

Lewis - Dark Comedy. A young male walks down a country lane, with his voice narrating his thought process. He is obsessed with what people think about him, and in comedic fashion ends up with two people in the boot of his car. This would be the same comedic style as Sean Of The Dead.

Sam -  Thriller. A teenage boy is wondering in a forest when he overhears the conversation of two males in a hut in the forest discussing how to bury a body. They notice him eavesdropping and he runs for his life, they person him intent on keeping their crimes a secret.

After reviewing the practicalities and potential of our ideas we settled on Sam's thriller idea. We arranged to meet our teachers at lunch and present our idea for the sequence later that day during lunch, prior to this we held another group meeting on Friday lunch where we built an initial story line.