Whilst thinking of ideas that we are developing for our main task, our group decided to brainstorm a few of the ideas and develop them, particularly look at the conventions of both narrative and technique. We began to consider some key camera shots to emphasise the themes of the storyline we were thinking of, such as a focus on smaller aspects of the main characters appearance to increase the sense of enigma and contrast long shots with close shots to reference confusion. We were particularly concerned with the idea of creating enough mystery and suspense without confusing the audience, yet also had to be careful of showing the audience too much. From this, we moved on to the ideas of the McGuffin and voice overs. We had an idea of a non-labelled map, the McGuffin, which our main character would carry. This was symbolic of the girls state of mind and also presented a mystery that needed to be solved. The voice over was merely a spur of the moment idea which later on in development came to be a little more important.
Following this, we began to develop the character we had in mind, thinking of a key theme: isolation. This lead to us thinking of the kind of clothing she would wear, dark and earthy tones to reflect how she stands out from the crowds. She is a strange juxtaposition in a busy setting, and we thought the perfect setting for this would be the London underground, as it can appear to be very cinematic. The lighting is light but muffled, the trains create loud, passing sounds and the platforms are often busy.
However, this was put to rest a few days later as we enquired about filming on location in the Underground, and realised that the financial limitations of our production would make it quite impossible to film there. We began reworking some of our main ideas after this, and started drafting a synopsis and pitch for our idea...
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