Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas:

We decided to brainstorm our ideas before starting with any major planning. To begin, we sat down as a group and decided to make a decision on what genre we were going to focus on. We were told that our task involved making a trailer to a new film and to compliment this we were going to make a poster and magazine cover. Due to our limited age group for actors, we felt it would be better to find a genre that would allow us to use suitable actors and locations. As a group we narrowed our ideas down to two choices.

Coming of Age:

This genre seemed like a good idea as we found narrative ideas very quickly because we are teenagers who face everyday problems. Therefore, we thought we could use everyday situations to portray a realistic narrative. Me and Iain began researching books such as 'The Summer I turned Pretty' and Daniel thought 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' would be a good narrative influence. We thought of generic locations such as the beach but the unpredictable weather for Britain seemed to take away the 'summer vibe' of the idea.

We were inspired by teenage problems such as relationships, drugs, mental- health and disability, as these are problems that many of us face when growing up. However, when we looked further into the genre, we realised that it was very hard to find a USP (unique selling point) for our fill due to the overuse of ideas in other releases. Due to this, we decided to come up with another idea without disregarding this one.

Coming of Age Apocalypse:

We knew that our film had to be centred around teenagers as our cast was limited so we decided to develop the coming of age ideas further. After reading Lord of the Flies, we were inspired by a world without adults and we thought, how could we modernise this idea and take a twist on this approach? What would happen with no authority? And how would society break down? Through these questions, we decided that we preferred this genre. We knew it would be a challenge to use social criticisms and find a good plot, but we were ready to take on the task.

With both ideas in mind, we sat down at a table and sketched some very rough poster ideas to help mind map our thoughts.

From this, we discussed ideas that would be central to an apocalyptic film that revolved around no adults.Themes such as rivalry, survival and trust came to mind and we thought about the effects on the social structure in a world with no authority. We thought of locations that may be useful to use so we could see what options we had. We suspected that skyline shots would be good to represent the theme of the narrative through the sky (e.g rain for sadness.) We also thought that deserted shots of places that are usually crowded would be good to represent the lack of adults such as motorways or schools. We also thought that a forest location may be useful to  symbolise the breakdown of society from a town to a natural location.

Finally, we decided that the apocalyptic genre would be better and we kept this in mind while we moved onto other tasks.