Feedback on Lost & Found
Out of my 3 ideas that I came up with, I chose the idea titled 'Lost & Found' which was a thriller, (about a young girl coming home from travelling and she gets to her house and it's not her family living there and her family 'never lived there' but she knows it's her house), to present to my production group and teacher. After I had explained this idea and what it would be about and how we would go about filming it, I received feedback. Negative and positive feedback.
The feedback I received from Neave was that it was a good idea, a good use of location (the location was on campus using one of the boarding houses) and an interesting concept and that it would be a good opening scene as it results in the audience having unanswered questions and the viewer wants to know what happens next. The feedback which I received from Bashy was that he found this idea interesting and it wasn't boring to listen to and grabbed his attention. From my teacher I received positive and negative feedback, the positive feedback that I collected was that it was very good and had just enough detail and enough information was provided (not too much and not too little) and the access to the props and characters was easy and could be easily done. The negative feedback I received was, as their is one main character who carries this opening scene and holds it together this would mean the actress would have to be very strong and a confident actress and this can be quite challenging to find. There was also a feeling portrayed by my teacher that the dramatic moment was not strong enough and would need to stand out more and something would be needed in this opening scene that would carry the rest of the movie.
From receiving this feedback, I adapted my idea and with the help from my production group and teacher and we came up with a different plot twist that would be bolder and would create a stronger dramatic moment. The idea was, rather than the girl realising it was not her house, she arrives home and is trying to get it but no one seems to be home, but as she is knocking she hears the phone ring and tries to follow it and goes around the side of her house to the kitchen and as she looks in the kitchen she sees her whole family has been murdered. Same beginning but different plot. This would enables the 'movie' to go somewhere and to evolve.
Feedback on Unaware
When presenting my second idea which was titled 'Unaware' and was a horror genre, I received feedback from my production group. The feedback I received from Bashy was, he thought it was very cool, and was his favourite idea out of all the ideas presented. The feedback I received from Neave was, that the cast would be easy to set up and find, it was a very good use of location (field behind school) and she really liked the idea and how it would be really fun to film. I then received feedback from my teacher (Mike) and he suggested that the weather could challenge the filming as it would be set outside and a group of friends sitting on a field, but he loved the visuals and the potential of it looking very good. After receiving this feedback we then as a group suggested alternatives and different ways we could make it better. These were, if the girl was running away from these figures she was seeing which are not actually there and the clip could cut back and forth of the figure being there to the figure not being there. This would be able to make the story line more clear.
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