Our initial idea was based around the genre of
horror/thriller and the subgenres of dystopia. What our video is going to be
about a society in where males and females are separated and sexual relations
between them is illegal due to a disease that is spread quite easily. The main
character in our video is going to be a female and what she is seen doing is
sitting in a café and ends up spiking the male characters drink and then takes
him to a place in order to test on him. This subverts gender roles and how
females are usually portrayed in the media. Also, it links to the idea of date
rape and how men are usually the ones to spike a women’s drink. The female
character is first portrayed as an antagonist as she spikes the man’s drink but
later on it is made clear that she did that in order to test on him so that she
can find a cure to the disease that is being spread between the sexes.
We were thinking our target audience was going to be mainly
focussed on the younger teenagers at around 15 to about 19. This is due to the
fact that the characters will be of their age and they will be able to identify
with them and also in the sense that our video involves themes like STD’s and date
rape. This will help enforce the fact that they need to be careful about these
things. Our audience is likely to be split 60/40 female to male ratio, as it
will most likely appeal to a female audience since the protagonist is a female
and is going about trying to figure out a cure.
In terms of the actual filming we were thinking of trying to
make how we film the video similar to Three Colors: Blue. The cinematography
and how close ups and extreme close ups are used to portray the narrative of
the film. The slow paced editing in order to make sure that the fact that this
is an Arthouse film can be conveyed. What makes our narrative an Arthouse film is the fact that it doesn't have a positive resolution to it and that she doesn't find a cure to the disease. This is similar to the film It Follows where it doesn't show what happens and just ends on a cliff-hanger where there is no new equilibrium formed and leaves the audience with a lot of enigma codes, which is what we aim to create in the audience's mind in our extract.
After we presented our idea to the focus group we received various
feedback and improvement that we took into consideration. Firstly, due to our
narrative being slightly complicated we were asked how the audience would
understand the disease and the fact that it is sexually transmitted. The age
rating for the video has to stay within the 15 rate guidelines. Therefore we
are able to portray this behaviour without any detail to it. So in response to
that we suggested that at the beginning of the video we will show two couples beginning
to get intimate and then them two going into a room and soon after they are
seen with foam coming out of their mouth which shows that they have been
infected with the deadly disease. In addition to this we were also recommended
to suggest sex in a more subtle way as many different films have been able to
do over the years. This is where I thought it would be interesting to use our
idea of the cinematography on Three Colors: Blue and maybe film the room in
close ups of certain objects and medium shots.
Next we were suggested to make the disease limited to a
certain age group in order to make it easier to film without manipulating a lot
of things when filming and making it less complicated. This is because we will
be using a café as a setting somewhere in London most likely. So it’s an open
place and we cannot control what other people are doing. Also because it is
much for reaching out to our target audience as it is as if it is speaking
directly to them.
We were also told to take into consideration of additional
themes that can be brought up due to what our storyline is and that is things
such as homosexuality in prisons as an example. Another way we could show that
there is a disease being spread is by having flyers being handed out that shows
detail of how the government is separating the two genders in order to protect
them but aren’t doing enough to stop the disease as a whole.
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