This is the costume that we put our main character in. the reason we did this was because we wanted him to not look as typical as other 18 year olds would and by putting him in a suit we are conveying that he is pulling away from the typial teenager that would be wearing tracksuit bottoms and a hoodie. we had an advantage because our main chracter looks older than 18 and so we could go any where with the storyline. putting him in the suit whilst he is waking through the office corridors worked very well and he looked like a professionall business man with his own office and so when it shows him running down the bike path, it makes the audience question why.
After a group disscusion, we have decided to make our 2min opening more complex original and unique, after hours of planning and filming we relised our first idea could be made so much more intresting and with our potential we can create a better opening than what disscused in the beginning. our initial idea was to show Derrick running in various places and keep a fast speed to the film and we wanted to show him running thoruh diferent locations and thought we should put him in some old tracksuit bottoms and a hoodie. we then had a talk with our teacher and concluded that this is too much of a typical idea to put a teenage boy in tracksuit bottoms when we have an advantage becaus ehe looks a lot older than 18. we have now decided that we will re thik the mise en scene and out Derrick in a plain black suit and show him only running once which will be on the bike path. we were going to do a scene where he enters a lift and we filmed this but whilst watching it back we noticed that the walls were very bland and it looked very boring and it did not look mysterious or interesting and so, we have decided that we are going to go with our new place which is to re film the bike path but with him in a suit and to add more bits in which he will be walking through different locations.
Inspiration through out the time discussing and coming up with idea's has refered back to the film AdultHood, the opening of this film is montage's which we thought look effective and we plan create a monatge for the opening of our short clip. this film is highly influencial as our target audeince is the same as Adulthood's. we want to target teenagers and people in their early twenty's and this is because we are leading up to a similar storyline but not as stereotypical. this is why we decided not to put our main character in tracksuit bottoms and a hoodie but instead in a suit as this is not expected of a teenager and adds to our individuality.
On the 2nd march we went out to burnage to the location we are set to film, and began to shoot some of the begining, this was partially successful as our actual filming techniques are good but we think the actual footage looks slightly boring and so becaus eof this we are going to do some more planning and re-shoot som eof it after we have come up with a stronger storyline. we are also going to look at the editing affects that we can use on Final cut pro and see what type of affects we are going to put on the footage, what we had in mind was a black and white affect as we think it suits the mood of the film and genre.
