Choosing groups - 9/2/10

Today's lesson involved us all choosing the groups we wanted to be in when filming and editing our first piece of real Media AS coursework.
I knew I had to chose well as Media is a course I really want to do well in.
Because Sarah and I had worked so closely and very well in our preliminary work, we decided that we were going to work together again. As well as Sarah I already knew when starting the course that I wanted to work with both Rob Mills and Aidan Foster as we are good friends anyway.
Once we had got into our groups and again discussed exactly what sort of mood and feelings that are involved with a thriller film, we needed to get on with storyboarding.
Sarah firstly had the idea of a young teenager in a house party drinking and having a good time with her friends then turning ugly. I did like this idea but couldn't really see how we were going to get around setting a party up and the idea of it all just sort of confused me. I still wanted the idea of a teenage thriller, and alcohol possibly being the base of the thrill in the film, but wasn't sure what.
I then thought about the idea of rape. We all agreed on this and started to think of ideas of how to add it into our thriller. After much deliberation we decided that we would have a girl walking in the night time down chilwell fields (near our college) looking tired with ripped tights and messed up hair, crying. She would then have flashbacks every few minutes to what had happened previously. Yet, because the flashbacks would be so short and snappy... the audience would only get a small realisation of what was really happening.
Our teacher then discussed our plans with us. It turned out that it wouldn't be the best idea for us to film in the night time as the outlines of the characters would not be as crisp as they would be in day light.
Rob then came up with the idea that we shot the night time scenes in the early morning (around 5am) to make it look as though the young girl was coming home from a party that she had been raped at. This sounded good to me and we all agreed.
We then started on the storyboard, yet hadn't actually drawn any pictures so realised we needed to start again in the next lesson.