Desisions we have made so far

So far as a group we have made most decisions relating to filming and scripting.
We have decided due to the results of our blogs poll and our audience questionnaire that the best genre to base our opening on will be comedy. This can be quite difficult as a genre as our opening can only be 2 minutes long so we have to be inventive in how we include pieces of comedy,we also have tried to be creative when producing our script as we have tried to use a basic opening storyline that leaves the audience imagining what could happen later in the film.

We have decided to use 'teenage drinking' as our idea.This is idea came about as a combination of influences.Firstly our questionnaire results which gave us a basic idea at what our audience was interested in.Secondly our deconstruction of the movie The Hangover which is a comedy based around the effects of heavy drinking.Lastly our personal experiences of popular TV and films at the moment,films such as 'Superbad; a comedy based on a night of teenage drinking',and the current TV series 'Skins' which we know are very popular were heavy influences on our scripting decisions.

We will before final editing decisions to our script look at existing openings of teen drinking films and shows.

To help us in our our final decisions to our piece we have left the characters and plot slightly open so that if we want we can edit it later on.

We have decided to keep our casting inside the group with one exception (Lloyd and Jimmy).Lloyd and Jimmy will play a small part that doesn't involve much action as we require four actors and at least one of us has to film. Our decision to use Lloyd and Jimmy was based on the fact that they have free time when we have free time,this is also why we have tried to keep most of the other acting inside the group as it is easier to film and produce with people who we all know are free at certain times so that our filming isn't delayed.

We are using the nearby river for part of our filming but the rest we will do in school or in the nearby area.We have based these decisions on ease of access and timing of filming.These locations could easily be changed if needed as we have left our script basic and subject to editing so that if we do need to change location it isn't a problem.

Based on our questionnaire results we have made the decision to somehow incorporate our opening titles into the opening scene.We are unsure at the moment as to how we will include these but we expect to make a decision next week.

These are all the decisions we have made so far if we change them we will make a blog post detailing these changes.

Robin