Today we had another meeting at the Rural Media Company in order to finalise our idea before we start production on Monday. However, due to the weather and flooding, only me, Ross and Elliot could make it. As our filming location (the park) is currently underwater, and we are still not entirely happy with the script, we needed to come up with a contingency plan. After talking to our filming mentors Nathan, Dave and Adrian, we have come up with a new, simple idea which all takes place inside using only three characters and has a similar theme of communication/technology.
Three teenagers are communicating via electronic means (laptops, phones and tablets). Their messages, emoticons and photos are visible on the screen, and you get a sense of their conversation. The three continue to communicate, their messages becoming more and more frantic, before the Internet goes down and their conversation ceases. It is then revealed that the three friends are in fact in the same room, but struggle to talk face to face.
We thought that this idea was a lot more simple, with an element of humour at the final twist, and much easier to shoot. Our idea for the new title of our film is 'Disconnected'. The idea of having graphics on screen was inspired by Pip's script. We will now (hopefully) be able to shoot all of the footage in one day still using Ross' house as our location, and then spend longer editing, as much of the story will be portrayed through special effects in post-production.
We contacted the rest of the group via video-call in order to let them know our new idea and to get their opinions/ideas. They all seem to be happy that this new idea is manageable, and we have decided on the three actors (Leah, Laura and George) who we are going to cast. We have made a brief list of plot points, and Rory is going to draft a script over the weekend ready for our pre-production day on Monday 17th. Dave has also very kindly said that we are able to use his Black Magic camera for the shoot, which solves the problem of kit!
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