Starting up the project has been difficult, choosing groups and what not. After asking numerous times, I finally convinced Ethan Wiley to let me work with him, now we have to talk about what we are actually going to do. We are about to start planning out our opening, so I will update this post after we talk more about the project. Leaning towards horror at the moment, very defined conventions make for easier filmmaking.
Update: Upon brainstorming, we decided on a doing a horror film. We talked and, given our 2 minute timeframe, we have decided that a cold open is a great idea. That way we don’t have to think TOO hard about the plot, keep it within our timeframe, and limit the number of actors we need. As a bonus, we could have the killer be human, monster, or just up to the imagination.
Update 2: Ethan and I have decided to make the movie a slasher type of film. We will keep the monster/killer hidden from view to add an element of mystery and make it more of an attention grabber. Opening with a character dying in the woods, dragged away into darkness, careful to leave the killer/monster out of view, will be easy to make fit the 2 minute timeframe, and immediately show the tone of the movie. Ethan’s father works at parks, so we can shoot our scene there. Our opening so far is as follows: some person is walking through a wooded area and hears something. They begin to get scared, and slowly begin to speed up. Eventually they hear a loud sound and break into a sprint, but before long they trip and fall. Then, before they can regain their footing, they are dragged backwards screaming. We will have to work on storyboarding and more specifics later, but this seems like a good starting place. I’m hopeful about this project, going well so far. We will meet tomorrow to continue discussing, I’ll update again then.
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