Pre-Production - Team Meeting 1

Our first team meeting was on the 25th January, where we came together with some of the research we had done and our own individual ideas. Here we decided that we wanted to stretch ourselves and come up with a concept that challenged the conventions of a typical great day.
we came up with a few ways that we could make the given theme interesting or just elements of shows or films we've seen that we would like to adopt or develop such as

•        A play on the element of time - starting the production from the end and unravelling the story from there to show how the subject got to where he or she is. I liked the idea of this non linear set up, its very postmodern however it has to be executed in a way that makes it clear for the audience to follow easily.

• To further illustrate the concept of changing time we came out with a few ways that we could clearly show this - a shot of a clock where it can either stay still or fast forward.

• Minimal characters (1-3) - Any more than that gets complicated

•  Mostly narrations with some diegetic and non-diegetic sound as if its the subjects thoughts being heard this makes it a bit more personal  - depending on the story line we decide on

• Starts with the subject getting up and getting ready - because we didn't want to use too many characters we felt that we would have to develop the story of the main subjects by showing some of the traits/routine so the audience can make inferences about the character.

Idea 1:

•  A story of two people who go on a date that keeps going wrong, the next day the same thing is repeated until they get it right

•  Could be in bed once the date has ended and have flashbacks of it.

• Only one of them are aware of the day repeating so its that persons responsibility to ensure that the date flows 

Idea 2:

•  The person hasn’t got many friends and therefore feels isolated by everyone until someone pays them some attention = their greatest day

• The subject could be standing still in a busy place; we can speed this up in post-production and reinforce the idea of isolation/the characters extreme introvert personality.

• The subject can be transported to different locations once they blink. They start to appreciate their talent as it can help them to get out of situations that make them anxious.