Project Brief 2- FTE
This fun, hardcore project on short film for the semester has been putting my group and I on the edge of our seats. Upon brainstorming ideas based on the given prompt, “Where there’s crime there’s violence, where there’s youth there’s love”, we came across a few similarities. James, Dea and I needed to come up with an idea that we will pitch to the studio class for and well, it worked… well…
Turns out our idea was to complicated and bizarre, with vintage setting and complex, too detailed characters that we surely need a way bigger budget to start our film. But that’s okay I guess. A part of this process is learning and keep trying. Therefore, James Thompson gave us another try to rethink about our film. So we did. We crossed out pretty much everything we had before and start from scratch. Dea came up with a brilliant idea to use time-lapse to give a little experimental touch to our short. James was aiming for a simpler, focusing on only two characters on the narrative and a more David Fincher kind of style. And as for me, I have walked through the Old Melbourne Gaol field, now the alumni court and just thought we could do something with it. So I came up with the idea of two characters who formed a friendship in a juvenile detention centre, which fits quite well to the prompt.
Here below is our pitch power point in which we had improved and was approved by James. Considering we have a much simpler idea and a more manageable short film. There we go, that’s a green light!
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