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Post 5: Production diary

 Brainstorm ideas

Having discussed with my teacher about my idea, I wasn’t completely sure on the location of my short film that I proposed, I was thinking a bus or a train but using these would mean I have to cancel out the noise of the train completely with the voice over. My main idea was to have a lead character sitting down on his seat on the train (next to a window preferably to show the passage of time and space) and then have an inner monologue of a troubling and maybe even dangerous situation he’s involved himself in to do with maybe a drug deal, as in the journey on the train or bus is the journey to what is going to happen. Im also quite stuck on how to end the short film, I was possibly thinking that I could end it with getting g a very low angle and show him getting of the train or bus and letting the audience decide whether or not he decided to do it, or is he chose safety and good conscience. Almost like a battle of inner good and evil.

My inspiration for this idea was definitely the short film arrival, it shows a woman having an inner monologue in a coffee shop waiting for the father of their unborn child, waiting to tell him about the baby. I was trying to capture the same kind of feel as this short film clip because it shows the human emotion really well and really easily.

 


- The short film I've been inspired by

 

Structure idea 1

One long shot of trains arriving and going, then within the same shot it shows our main character come onto screen and then sitting down and panning round to show his face, this is where he puts his headphones in and it fades to black and fades back out to a wide angle shot of him sat alone with window in view to show time passage, This is where the inner monologue will start.  

Possible backstory within the opening scene possible phone call with the person he is buying the drugs off.



The location



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