Mood board

This is our mood board . We might change it later if we have any other or new ideas . 

Test shoot

Here are some photographs from our test shoot which we filmed during our lesson . We used an iPhone   6 and had an hour to film it . Me , Joe and Poppy we acting in it and Lara was filming us . All the photos are in a chronological order , except the ending which we just dont have because none of us had a chance to make any photographs as we were all involved in the video .

The second pitch

After we pitched our initial ideas to Mike, we were given feedback and constructive criticism on how to take our ideas forward and develop them into a better concept. 

We adapted our idea to focus more in one room, deciding that the "basement" would be made up in the studio and predominantly would be filmed in there. We thought it would be more effective to centralise the sequence on the two boys in the room, one dead and the other struggling to free himself. The boy the starts to hear footsteps, becoming more and more panicked, the camera then flashes to the footsteps approaching down the corridor. The man then opens the door and paces over to the boy and the scene cuts as the boy is looking up in desperation at the man. 

 Matt and Luke liked the concept of a boy under pressure and "someone coming", however thought the elements like the "doctor" and him keeping two girls captive was slightly cliche and not very unique. However, they thought that our sequence was of the thriller genre, yet we had to be careful not to mix it up with a horror. They thought our idea was full of tension and suspense, yet we had to develop it to improve it and get rid of some elements. 

I found the feedback from Matt and Luke really useful and helpful and realised that there is still room for improvement . 

A story board

This is our story board and it will still change before the last outcome .

Back up idea

A woman has schizophrenia and keeps seeing people that aren’t there. Especially her daughter, who is not a real person . The daughter falls ill during the opening sequence and her vother takes her to the doctor. In the room, the doctor begins to ask the mother how she is feeling. The mother is getting really worried as the doctor seems more concerned about her than her child. The doctor then reveals that the mother is actually suffering from an illness and she has been in this mental institute since her daughter’s death two years ago. The woman is totally shocked with this news and becomes violent and crazed; she escapes from the hospital to find out what happened to her daughter, it turns out she was murdered. The conclusion of the film reveals that the mother was the one who killed the daughter and is in an institute as she still believes her daughter is alive.