Week ONE and response to the brief

This week after finding out our brief I was quite excited to start working with my group on our opening sequences. We started off by sharing our own ideas from our own storyboard, this was interesting and I found it a good way to start sparking ideas. We tried to combine bits of each others ideas as well as keeping in mind other student work that we had seen previously as we found things with previous groups which had worked well and others not so well. It felt like we got off to a slow start but during the first lesson we had decided on the genre of crime as the group liked my idea of having some sort of crime map kind of thing where the credits could possibly be. We had also decided that we wanted to film in London. I had the idea of someone having some sort of obsession with crime and was using this crime map to interfere with crime in some way. As a group we took this idea and changed it to using the crime map to maybe find something. I liked this idea but as I already had a simple story line in my head I found it hard to change it to the new idea, or understand what the other members of the group were trying to put across.

We started storyboarding quite quickly, we firstly did this on post-it notes so we were able to change the order etc. Someone mentioned the idea of having a tramp as the main character to make it different. We all agreed on this and started to think of people we could ask to play the part who wouldn't be offended by the role we were asking. We also decided to use a dog, which i really liked the idea of. This was to add to the character but also be used in the story line of finding this crime map in a shed. As we continued to story board we realised that quite a lot of the shots were of the dog and suddenly it looked as though this was film about a dog. We tried to mix it up with a few more shots of the tramp following the dog.

There were a few shots we couldn't decide on for the tramp therefore we drew out and filmed both deciding we would choose the best one during editing. We continued with our storyboard and also started about thinking about whether our idea was practical, for example a dog walking to a shed and opening the door. We really liked the idea of including a dog and we found a dog that would be able to 'act' as we had planned however we were not sure if it was practicle to take the dog up to London to film for the whole day.