After lots of careful consideration and discussions, we finally came up with a concept for our short film. It is of a drama genre. The main concept of it is: A gentleman called Lucas is at a train station on the way to a job interview. Whilst waiting for a train, he sees a woman called Grace falls over and drops her papers in front of him. He then begins two flash forwards. One where he leaves the woman and walks directly past her to get on his train, gets to the job interview on time, and successfully acquires the job. However, even though he has a luxurious life, lives in a posh mansion, and drives a fast car, it doesn’t mean that he is living a happy life. The second flash forward shows what would happen to him if he helped Grace after her fall. Although he misses the job interview, Grace turns out to be his wife; they get married, buy a house and live a happily together. At the end of both flash forwards he receives a letter. In the first flash forward it states that he has received a promotion at work, and in the second flash forward, it is confirmed that his wife is pregnant. He then comes back to reality and has to make the decision of which life he intends to lead.
So, this is the concept for our film and although it is of a drama based genre, it does have elements of fantasy and mystery to it. This is because Lucas is having these flash forwards, and the fact that it will be left to the audience to decide upon which path of life he will choose.
As we have our concept, we now need to develop our research further. We are going to analyse films of the similar genre to ours, to make sure we include similar conventions in ours. Furthermore, even though we have never seen the film “Sliding Doors”, we were told that our concept was very similar to that film, which is something we shall look in to. We will then need to find our actors, locations and create our storyboard, entailing the specific shots we are going to include, and must keep in mind: lighting, sound, mise-en-scene and continuity, so verisimilitude is obtained at all times.
We think it will be a bit challenging to produce this film, especially as we are filming at a train station, and we will need older actors. However, we believe that it has a good concept, which will hopefully interest the audience and keep them engaged throughout the film.
So, this is the concept for our film and although it is of a drama based genre, it does have elements of fantasy and mystery to it. This is because Lucas is having these flash forwards, and the fact that it will be left to the audience to decide upon which path of life he will choose.
As we have our concept, we now need to develop our research further. We are going to analyse films of the similar genre to ours, to make sure we include similar conventions in ours. Furthermore, even though we have never seen the film “Sliding Doors”, we were told that our concept was very similar to that film, which is something we shall look in to. We will then need to find our actors, locations and create our storyboard, entailing the specific shots we are going to include, and must keep in mind: lighting, sound, mise-en-scene and continuity, so verisimilitude is obtained at all times.
We think it will be a bit challenging to produce this film, especially as we are filming at a train station, and we will need older actors. However, we believe that it has a good concept, which will hopefully interest the audience and keep them engaged throughout the film.
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