Planning and Brainstorming

Planning and brainstorming

I am going to work with Chelsea. I have chosen to work with her as during GCSE we worked together effectively and both exceeded our target grades due to us supporting one another. This pairing may cause problems as she does both art and photography and I do photography which are both heavily coursework based subjects, this may mean we both have points where doing media work is difficult to fit into both of our schedules. We should be able to overcome these if we make sure we always put time aside for media. Other than this I feel like Chelsea and I will work efficiently together, she is a superb camera man and I am good at the editing side of post-production. We also live near to one another so meeting up to film or edit won’t be too difficult.

We are trying to stay away from the main genres chosen for AS media tasks. This means we would prefer not to do horror or rom-com films as these are what most people do for their project and we want our work to stand out. So far we have considered fantasy, action adventure and apocalyptic films. These will be difficult to create given our lack of budget or equipment but we like to challenge ourselves constantly and find ways to overcome these problems.

Conventions wise we can be limited, especially as the genre’s we are considering sometimes lie heavily on some kind of computer generated image. However, we will try to overcome these by picking a genre which doesn’t reply on this convention as heavily. Other conventions will not be an issue, if we have any issues we will step back and look at the genre and see how these can be avoided.

We are each going to create a logo and name for two production companies. INSTERT WORK ON THAT HERE

After some thought we decided to do a gothic fantasy adaptation of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Therefore the name would have to give away this, here’s what I came up with:

INSTERT BRAIN STORM and SURVEY HERE

As it is a gothic version of a fantasy and therefore will contain some images of horror we have decided to settle for a 12 BBFC rating, this means we have to follow these rules when creating the opening sequence, taken from the BBFC website:

•         Moderate physical and psychological threat is permitted at 12 or 12A as long as disturbing sequences are not too frequent or sustained.
•         Moderate violence is allowed but it should not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood, but occasional gory moments may be permitted if they can be justified by their context (for example brief sight of bloody injury in a medical drama).
•        Action sequences and weapons may be present at 12 or 12A, and there may be long fight scenes or similar. Weapons which might be easily accessible to 12 year olds should not be glamorised in 12A and 12 works.

·         The overall tone of a film or DVD, and the way it makes the audience feel may affect the classification. For example, a work which has a very dark or unsettling tone which could disturb the audience would be less likely to be passed 12A even if the individual issues in the film were considered acceptable under the BBFC guidelines. Similarly, if a work is particularly positive or reassuring this may stop it being pushed up a category from 12A to 15.

Our trailer will only show the main character, Little Red Riding Hood, this will make sure we do not need a lot of people to film our sequence which means there will be more points where we are available to film. It also means that the audience of the opening sequence does not reveal too much about the actual film so the enigma is still there. Also as it is based on a real storyline we do not need to introduce all of the characters as everyone already knows who is in the film. We have got permission from our actress to film and are currently just waiting on a filming date.