Draft Ideas For Our Film

We came up with a range of ideas for how we could make our two-minute film opening. Below are the different draft ideas that we had.

First Draft

Our first idea was to do the filming of a person coming in from the cold and sitting alone on a sofa and have a close up of the person crying. They would then go into a flashback of them self and their sister sitting together on a wall talking. The reason we decided not to use this idea is that we thought it would be better to show the flashback first as it would reinforce the feeling of isolation and loss.

Second Draft
Our second draft started with the flashback of the sisters walking and talking, they then sat down on a wall and continued talking. The camera then cuts to a close up on the main characters face with their eyes closed. While still in a close up they open their eyes and say "If Only". The camera is then taken into a wide long shot of the main character sitting alone on the wall looking upset. This shot will enhance the feeling of isolation as it will show that there is no one around her and that she is alone. She then gets up and walks home and goes into her house and the film ends with her walking through the door. We felt this was better than the first draft but still had other ideas for what we could do.

Third Draft

For our third draft we added more detail to aspects like the flashback and also came up with an idea to have the camera fade to black and then come out from an extreme close up on the main characters eye into a close-up of their. This would show the character looking sad and they would then say "If Only". The camera would then cut into a wide long shot of the character sitting on the same wall as in the flashback but this time they would be alone. She would then stand up and walk home and the door would be shut on the camera as though she was shutting the audience out and further isolating herself from the world.

Final Draft

After looking at the other three drafts we came up with the idea for our final draft piece. We took ideas from the other drafts that we liked and thought would work well in creating the effect we were looking for. We decided that it would be good to have the characters walking and then sitting on a wall showing that they were having a good time. After thinking about different eye shots we could do we came up with the idea that the camera could zoom in on the eye of the person who has died and then zoom out of the eye of the living person after they have come out of the flashback. We then decided to show the isolation with the use of a long wide shot of the person sitting alone on the wall before walking home alone. Another idea was to have the camera follow the person up the footpath and the door closing as if shutting the camera and also the rest of the world out.