[Pre-Production] Holiday Preparation

Holiday Preparation:

Our team decided that over the holidays we would each come up with a couple ideas as the vague idea for our mini movie. We mentioned as a team that we would not discuss our movie ideas until after the holidays; allowing each of our ideas to be very different. I found the first stages of brainstorming are the hardest; this is when I have no clue in what direction I wanted to go with the movie idea. Then I suddenly just decided to visualise what would look good as a very brief plot.

Here are my notes while I was brainstorming:

My kind of day

Things to consider:

Moods:

• ·      Mystery
• ·      Thriller
• ·      Drama

Ideas:

• ·      Mirrors
• ·      Light switches
• ·      Hands
• ·      Eyes
• ·      Contrast

Cinematography techniques:

• ·      Point of view
• ·      Close up
• ·      Birds eye
• ·      Worms eye
• ·      Panning
• ·      Tracking
• ·      Slowed down clips
• ·      Sped up clips

My kind of day story ideas:

Phone stolen?:

Dark

[

• ·      Phone vibrates
• ·      Door clicks
• ·      Door opens
• ·      Light comes in
• ·      Shadow walks in and then walks out
• ·      Door closes and boy wakes up
• ·      Boy reaches sideways for phone (eyes still closed)
• ·      Can’t find it
• ·      Tries to switch light on and off, no light comes on.
• ·      Rolls out of bed a grunts (ouch)
• ·      One can hear scrambling noises
• ·      All one can hear is the sound of drawers slamming open and closed
• ·      Suddenly torch light comes on

]

Torchlight

[

• ·      Frantic goes to door
• ·      Tries to switch on light
• ·      Opens door and tries switching on the hall light
• ·      Doesn’t work
• ·      Goes back into room
• ·      Frantically looks for phone
• ·      Goes to bathroom and shines light to find phone
• ·      Shines light in mirror to check time
• ·      Finally sees the character
• ·      It’s 3:34 am

]

Suddenly Invisible:

Characters:

• Nerdy boy
• Girly girl

Techniques:

• Point of few (boy moving out of way and watching others)

[

• ·      Dark
• ·      Flickering light
• ·      Boy switches light on
• ·      New person moves in
• ·      “Here is your transfer room”
• ·      Boy suddenly looks up from bed
• ·      Girl walks in
• ·      And dumps suitcase on bed (boy has to pull legs back)
• ·      She walks into bathroom, boy follows and stands behind her
• ·      Girl looks into mirror. Boy can’t be seen from mirror
• ·      Girl re applies some makeup
• ·      Turns around and walks through door frame
• ·      Boy pushes himself against the doorframe. Girl walks past really close
• ·      She doesn’t notice him at all

]