Minute meetings

My media Thriller production Group consists of Evelyn, Sam, Eloise and myself.

Yesterday (18.11.2015) we discussed about our main idea; what idea do we want to pursue?

We decided that we wanted to work with my first idea of the psychopathic painter, and have brought up several ideas to develop it a little.

The ideas of what we wanted to add are:

- A hallway at the beginning with a trackingshot that would lead to the camera "finding" the killer in the room.

- Shooting in a warehouse.

- No sound other than exentuated diegetic sound (dripping, etc.)

Today (19.11.2015) we thought about what we use as our backup idea. We decided on one of Sam's ideas; here is a brief summary of what that idea is:

- The entire thing is shot in a public toilet, shot from the toilet bowl/top of the toilet.

- A man in a suit staggers in, leans on the toilet, and plops things such as his wallet, phone, and clothes into it.

- The idea basically revolves around a man getting rid of his life - there is a psychopathic element included in this.

We then decided to continue talking about our main idea, and decided to make a Scene outline.

This is where things got a little out of hand, as we began concentrating on the details; we had thought of things like:

- First shot: going down the hallway, the lighting is creepy, like only one part of the warehouse is lit, it's a steadycam shot, shot going towards the door.

- There are extreme close ups of small details like paint drips, the paintbrushes, and facial expressions, etc. It would never reveal what he's actually doing, and reveal that there is someone else there - you wouldn't notice what is actually going on though.

- At the end of the sequence the main character would be looking at the face of the Body, staring it in the eyes.

- Man starts going crazy a little, Frustration, man is upset. Close ups of the Frustration - screaming at the body.

This is where we lost it a little.

What are we going to do?

I thought that it would be a good idea for us to go back to our houses and try and attempt to shoot the sequence we had in mind. I think hat this could potentially work, and would give us an opportunity to look at the timing of everything.