Planning: Developed Ideas

Following our pitch, we took out time to reflect upon our ideas and used the feedback that we received to develop each idea further.

Idea One: 
This storyline will follow the experiences of a girl growing up. It will be filmed and edited as a montage of varying events in the girl's life, such as her first breakup and arguing with parents. In order to bring these images together to form a narrative we will be using a voice over. The voice will be of the main protagonist. She will speak in a reflective tone about what advice she would give her younger self.

Our protagonist will be female. We will see her throughout various milestones in her life and therefore she will vary in age throughout the film. We will make this clear to the audience through costuming, makeup and props. In the voice over, the character will be an adult, in order to convey the reflective tone that we are trying to achieve. We took inspiration for the voice over from 'The Division of Gravity' by Rob Chiu, as this portrays a similar tone to the one we are trying to achieve.

This film will be conventional of the coming of age genre as it will feature many of the common themes and locations. For example there will be a love interest, a sense of self discovery and themes of friendship. We will also include locations such as a teenagers bedroom and secondary school.

Idea Two:
This idea is for a music video. As we explained in our pitch, although we want to create a short film, we found it difficult to come up with three interesting and unique ideas. Therefore, we found that this storyline would be more suited to a music video rather than a short film. It was unlikely that we would chose this idea to run with, however we believed that if we presented the idea to a small group of people within our target audience, we would receive useful feedback on how to combine elements of the idea with our other storylines, in order to create a compelling shot film.

The narrative will follow a teenage girl, who is experiencing issues at home. The video will begin with her walking out of her run down home, looking depressed and defeated. As the music begins to play we will see her walking to a series of different locations. Then, as the tempo increases, she will begin dancing. We aim to make this an interesting film to watch by linking the different locations with graphic matches. The character will be doing the same dance in each location, therefore we will match her actions between each cut and transition. The music for the video will be Jack Garratt's 'Surprise Yourself'. This song features many dips and rises which will allow us to convey differing moods throughout the film, such as carelessness and letting go and then restriction and hopelessness.

This idea is also conventional of the coming of age genre as the protagonist is a teenage girl. She is also experiencing issues at home, which she chooses to overcome through escaping in her dancing. It will also feature locations such as a family home, which is also conventional of the genre.

Idea Three
This plot will follow two teenage characters. We will witness them developing a friendship through taking turns to write to one another on a school desk. They will eventually meet and as the audience we will witness their friendship progress as they overcome issues and help one another.

The protagonists of this film will be a 15 year old boy and girl. For the first part of the film we will see the two characters through a dual narrative. The film will begin with the male character, bored of his lesson, scratching 'hello' into the desk. We will then cut to the next day with him sitting down at the same desk, realising that someone has replied. We see him writing a message, then the scene will cut to the female character reading the message. There will be back and forth editing between the two protagonists as they write messages to one another on the desk. During this section we will introduce interesting editing techniques such as stop motion editing of the words appearing one by one on the desk. When they finally meet they will aid one another in overcoming their personal issues, such as an abusive family member.

This storyline will follow a theme of friendship and overcoming issues together. Both characters will be around 15 years old, therefore making them conventional to the genre. We will also introduce elements to the personality of each character that will make them even more conventional to the genre.