Initial Ideas for our Film

My group and I, for the initial ideas task created quite a few so that it would give us more of a variety to choose from. Also having a few different ideas helped us develop individual ideas further and into more detail.

First we decided we would look at different genres and then decide on one which one we would like to create the opening of the film onto. Initially we thought, that we should choose the genre ‘Horror’ like we did in our Preliminarily task, but we decided not to go forward with the idea as we would like to try something different. However we still came up with an idea for it which would include a graveyard, some fog and old dangling trees which are conventions of Horror.

After that we looked at different opening sequences of films from a variety of different genres. From all those different openings our first idea was that we would be having a ‘Journey to..’. This would be set out such as that that the main character would be making their way to work/school, which would include her/him getting quickly dressed; then rushing out of the house; maybe then getting on their bike or the public transport or just simply running. The Credit Text would be playing simultaneously at the side as the character processes with their journey.The reason we decided to give a few options within ideas is that so we could explore on them later on.

Another idea of ours included, that it would be based on teenagers and them getting bullied by elder years. Similar to Spider-Man scene, where Peter Parker get bullied for being nerdy in the corridors and cafeteria. However we did not really like this idea as it does not seem to be very eye catching and the audience should be engaged from the very first second of the film. But we thought that we could combine this idea with the ‘Journey to..’ idea and make it a Rom-Com and it would include teenagers or young adults which would make our main target audience around the same age or people in their 20's.

The reason why we thought of a Rom-Com is that, not only could we make the opening scene joyful but also engage the audience as it has a happy feel to it, they would want to pay more attention to it. 

If we are going along with the idea of a Rom-Com then we would be targeting this at young adults which would include people in their 20’s as people around in that age at either starting off their career or going to university. Therefore they would meet a lot of new people daily and also make friends and comedy is always something which people tend to enjoy at that age. Also it for them it is a great conversation starter because it is something positive to talk about. Therefore this age group would be our main target group due to their interests.