Coursework: Brainstorming

 Brainstorming after some discussion:

As a group we went away and did some research on different aspects that will concern our project.

Naomi looked into different make-up kits that we could use, to make the blood look realistic, and Adam looked at music and went over our plot again to check it over.

Adam raised some concerns such as casting, he pointed out that some of the people we were looking at casting (if they agreed) may not be reliable due to their studies and as they're not directly involved in a way that will affect their grades, they might not take our project as seriously as we would like them to. As a result of this, we have changed the story a bit so that there are less people involved to avoid as many issues regarding convening as a group. Maddie suggested that we use her little brother as he doesn't have as much pressure work wise due to him being in year 9 and it will be easy to liaise with him. The other character that we are casting is the supernatural creature herself, who, at the moment, we are considering Ella Venermo, a friend of Maddie's, but that may change. It could potentially be Maddie, for practical reasons.

One aspect of our storyline that we have altered is the bounty hunter. Instead of the bounty hunter being revealed at the end, to make it more mysterious, we are changing it so that it is a serious of P.O.V shots as the bounty hunter so that the audience get the feeling that the other characters are being followed. This has made it so that we don't have to worry about casting the hunter and adds a thriller effect to the story, as it has turned out to be more of a horror.

Maddie said that it turned out to be more of a horror because in thrillers blood is not a key feature as it is more of a genre that is  more psychologically based, whereas horror is the blood and gore of the film industry. Maddie felt like that as a group that we would be able to have a better quality output if we are able to use a genre that has a wider range of codes and conventions available to use.