Subject Exploration: Film part 1

Planning: First inistal brainstormed ideas

As a start I had decided I wanted to carry out this task of creating a 1 minute length chase sequence as a group, we all then began brainstorming and planning various ideas for what our chase scene could be. Many ideas were thought of such as the first initial idea being a gangster chase - although this was a great idea, the gangster theme was a cliché. With moving on with ideas a theme of childhood, adult fears came up with the idea of a male character narrating a story on his childhood, reflecting on how as a child he had a fear of monsters beneath his bed, and tries to run away from these demons. The monsters are representations of real life horrors such as bills, taxes, they would be perceived as the struggle and fears of adult life. Animation would have been used also as the monsters would be animated creating the mixture of both live action and animation together. Although this idea was brilliant and one I throughly liked, there was conflicting times for filming within the week we would need to.

Planning: Brainstorm and Timeline of final ideas

Notes on final ideas 

In thinking of other ideas we could create an idea was thought of that two graffiti artists go to an abandoned, derelict building to do graffiti before being spotted by a security guard resulting in a chase taking place. There were ideas that the ending to this would be 3 versions, the first being during the chase one of the friends becomes injured resulting in the other friend making a decision to help them or continue escaping. The second the friend to jump off the building resulting in injuring/death or becoming caught. The final the security guard becomes injured resulting in the character either helping the injured security guard or running off like the friend had done. Although these were good endings I had thought of instead what if the security guard returned to the spot he found the artists and threw a can in anger from them escaping, which exploded creating this big mess of 'art' which would inspire him to finish the piece off. This ending went down well with the group and we had gone with it as it had an unexpected twist. The reason for deciding to carry out is that graffiti can be portrayed in many ways, some may find it vandalising, others a form of art. In this short film the twist of the security guard a law abiding citizen continuing the graffiti, shows that perhaps in his eyes it really is art and not typical vandalism. Below is the storyboard which was created using a application called Storyboards, it shows the detail of how the chase sequence will occur.