Planning & Meetings: Week #1, January 4th - 6th

During this week, we held our first meeting together as a group and we decided on the genre of film what we wanted to create. Collectively, each of us agreed on producing the opening sequence to a science fiction, futuristic film.

Over the Christmas period, we were all set the task to create an individual storyboard for our own two minute sequence. When we returned from our holidays, each of us took turns to pitch and submit our own unique idea and storyboard to the group, where we would deliberate over what we thought was the best idea and which aspects we could extract from each of our plans to create a somewhat respectable final storyboard for our opening sequence. A particular influence of ours was the opening sequence to the film, 'Children of Men', as featured below:

Children of Men (2006)


Later on in the week, after discussing what the narrative could be for our opening sequence, we eventually decided upon a brief idea for the storyboard for our film between ourselves. The idea featured a man and his dog discovering a 'crime map' in a shed. We later developed this idea further, replacing the man with a tramp as we felt that this would enable us to be able to work with our storyline easier and gave us more scope as to what we could producing, providing a different edge to our film. A thought was put forward to the group that the 'crime map' included images of various different landmarks in Central London and that the final link and image on the map would show something that wasn't supposed to be there.

In our first week, I believe that we covered a satisfying amount of tasks and I was very pleased with the progress I felt that we were making as a group as it would provide us with the opportunity to plan the shooting of our opening sequence earlier than our peers, and in general, give us more time to be able to edit and add special effects and features during the post-production process.