Synopsis & Actor

After further discussion, Becky and I have agreed upon a final synopsis for our film opening. We have come to a conclusion by adding in ideas from our genre research and ideas we have had throughout the week before our lesson.

We would like to start our film off with a later scene; in the forest, perhaps, with the female running away or trying to find a way out to escape from something chasing her. This would include tracking/ panning shots with short close ups which would build up tension. This would then switch to a split screen of each character getting ready for their date later on. I will post an example of this sort of scene later. This could be broken up with short, sharp flashes of dark forest shots which could possible display some of the titles. If not, the titles would just go on through the split screen scene. It would then move onto a scene of them finally together having a romantic, candlelit dinner at the male characters home. They go to hold hands but as they touch the female character gets a vision into the future. This vision would be quite hazy and unclear. It would be of the forest again, maybe through her vision so the audience would be seeing what she sees. It would snap back to reality with her subtly shaking off what she just saw. She would look quite scared and confused. There would then be a shot of the male character walking the female home. He puts his arm around her and in that moment she would get another vision, this time much clearer. It is of him trying to drown and kill her. She is struggling to get away put the vision stops leaving on that cliffhanger. Back in reality, she tries to stay normal and the opening scene ends on a close up of them together with her looking worried and not knowing what to do. Finally, the title of the film, yet undecided, would appear, closing the opening scene.

Becky had the idea of having a time in the corner of each clip which would show time going by and the time between the reality scenes and the future scenes which would make the audience want to know what goes on in that space of time. I really like this idea and I think we have decided to use it. She also saw a film where some scenes were in black and white and some in colour. We think we may use this idea and have either the reality or the future scenes in monochrome and the other in colour, this is yet to be decided.

We have also found an actor, Will Steele, to play the male role in our film. He is doing Drama GCSE and has been in several productions. I have talked him through a rough idea of what our synopsis is and what would be involved. We have a few ideas on who to ask for our female actress but we will discuss this later on to decide and find out who would be willing and available to play this role in our film.