First Pitching of Our Ideas

During yesterdays lesson, Mima, Frankie and I had our first oppertunity to present our 2 strongest ideas to Matt and Adam (media teachers) to see what their opinions on what we had come up with were. Our 2 ideas included a young child being babysat by a teenager, our second idea included a camper with a hint of mystery about whats on the other side of it.
The Babysitter

The idea of the babysitter included a small girl who's parents have gone out for the evening and left their child at home with a teenage girl aged approximately 16-17 years. The teenager is watching TV on her own whilst the small child is sitting at the kitchen table doing her artwork and finger painting. There is then a power cut in the house and the teenage girl doesn't know how to react. She tells the child to wait downstairs as she goes upstairs to try and fix the problem. She fails in her attempt but manages to find a faint lighted torch. As she slowly makes her way downstairs she starts calling the child's name but to her surprise there is no reply. She then uses her torch to shine to where the girl was originally sitting but sees no child. She then sees the child's fingerprints on the wall. The teenager followed the tracks of where the fingerprints and they led into a bathroom where they stopped at the mirror. She then shined the light at the mirror and saw the child's face behind her in the mirror with cuts and bruises all over her face. Making her look possessed.

During our meeting with Adam and Matt, as a group we learnt a lot. They both liked the idea of the fingerprints leading somewhere the child had been but the idea of seeing face in the mirror hey didn't like. We were expecting this and hesitant whether or not to include it in our meeting as we knew it could be considered slightly cheesy and cliche. Having discussed this with Adam and Matt we managed to build some new ideas and learn which parts to keep and which parts not to.

The Camper

The idea of the camper is possibly the more likely of the 2 to be continued. The idea started from a Duke of Edinburgh camp with a group of children going missing during the night. This developed to just one man on his own camping. There was then more emphasis on the tent itself. The real mystery that we were trying to work out as a group was what would be on the other side of the tent zip. Many ideas were going through our heads, these included waking up in a field, in a living room or simply in a classroom. Our next stage must be developing a feasible idea which we can work on to create the perfect opening sequence for a thriller.

Our meeting with Adam and Matt was very beneficial, we all had a discussion and decided that the Duke of Edinburgh idea wasnt very good and it would have been obvious that it was done by some school kids rather than look professional like a Hollywood film. We also decided that the location of this man in his tent needs to be crazy and unexpected, to move the audience. The next stage is thinking of a suitable place and developing our ideas to the next lesson so we would then be in a position to start filming.