19th October - Finalising Screenplay

This was our first production meeting as a team. From the session before, we found out who would be in which group with a possibility of each tutor as a mentor. The mentors were Alex, Anna, Edwin and Emily. I got put in a group as producer with Callum Dawson as director, Thomas Henry as DOP, Iris Hobson as production designer and Nathaniel Thomas as sound designer. We got put with Alex so she would be able to us along the way in making the film eventually.
Before this session, we found out a groups the week before and as producer, I wanted to get us organised so I made a private group chat on Facebook messenger so we could keep in contact and discuss more about our film.


My group and I went into a meeting room to plan our film and come up with different ideas for the which we could include. Iris started off saying that she had an idea that people should be wearing masks as if to hide their identity from the rest of the world. After lots of discussion, we decided only one person, our main female actress would not be wearing a mask as she hasn't conformed to having no identity, nevertheless, we wanted her to have an office job due to the fact that she could be half way there to not having an identity. We thought the masks could include horse heads and different kinds of animals. Then we discussed a relevant topic today and how clowns are murdering people. This, therefore implied that we would change the horse masks for clown masks, furthermore, this idea was sooner rejected due to how we would film outside and we wouldn't get a good response from the public. We also thought we could depict through a much more intellectual way. 
In the end we found that the best way to show this is with the use of blurred faces and we talked about how we could edit it in post production.


We then drew a hill type drawing on an A3 piece of paper and came up with structure for the narrative; a beginning, middle and an end. We had then started to speak about props and which would be necessary, however we still had Saturday to plan as well as Monday, so we left that information till then. Although, Iris took on the role of co-writer as Armand couldn't make it that day, so she would help him write a rough draft of a script in which we would all look at on Saturday.


I was very proud of my group as we had come so far in just two hours. I have high hopes for this film.