Considering my Initial Ideas

As I begin to prepare and research into the project, I have started to consider some initial ideas that would be relevant to each possible project task; music video's, trailers and short films.
Miss placed us into groups, so that we could, as a group, begin to start thinking about ideas, even if we didn't want to use them as the final choice. I was working with Matthew Hill and Jessica Alecci.

Trailers-
Firstly we considered trailers, where in which, miss gave us three title examples and we had to choose one of these and create a trailer around it. We chose one and decided to create a trailer in the style of a thriller as it seemed to reflect the title in which we chose. We came up with the idea of a stranger obsessed with a ordinary young girl. We thought about shot types. Thinking the trailer would begin with quick shots of a busy sidewalk, with strangers, obliviously on their way to work and events of their day, and as this occurs there being a narration above it, with something along the lines of 'every day, one million people pass each other by, without even noticing; but what if one was watching'. It continues to show a quick summary of the film that helps to invite an audience in. It was showing shots with cliff-hangers, leaving audiences wanting more and ultimately wanting to watch it.

Music Video-
For the music video, we broke it down. We wrote down as many genres of music we could think of. We then chose a genre and wrote down a number of artists whose songs were in that style of music. We then chose one of these songs and considered how we would make a music video to suit it. Our group chose rap, this genre of music is not one of which i have alot of knowledge on, however my group did. It is also a genre of music that is quiet stereotypical, when it comes to a music video. It tends to have quick shots of the rapper 'rapping' but is very well known for its vast pieces of narrative scenes. Therefore we decided that regarding a music video that we would attempt to make, we would create narrative scenes that reflected the lyrics of the song.

Short Films-
My group and I found this the hardest idea to consider. We realised that short films have a extremely wide basis. As in, they really can be about, just about anything. We looked at a number of short films online, and found that the storylines were very unusual, but somehow worked. However many of them had meanings behind them and therefore we realised that the way in which we tried to reflect the meaning of our short film, could be done in a large number of ways. We watched one short film called 'moments'. This was not similar to anything I’ve seen before, and therefore when considering an idea for a short film our self, we tried to consider something similar to 'moments'. The film consisted of a large number of shots that changed very quickly, although at first this did not make sense, it was trying to portray the moments in our life that go un-noticed, as well as the ones we never forget. We felt this would be a great challenge to create something along these lines, however we did consider the idea of creating a short film about a topic that meant something to us, or an idea about 'life' that we've always had, and how we could portray this through a short film.