In today's lesson we were given a random location and key prop to include in our film opening. We then used the 'random article' feature on wikipedia to find our title (which was Biduiyeh-ye Nakhai). As a group we discussed and decided that a hybrid genre of a documentary/horror would fit best with the location of a clearing in a wood, this decision came quite fast because personally that is what I thought of immidiatly and everyone else in the group was thinking along the same lines. We learnt in a previous lesson that one of the main reasons why genre exists is to satisfy what the audience want and so that they know what they are in for this is why we all recognised the conventions of a horror/documentary and chose that for a woods setting.
The key prop which we had to include was a diary, at first someone suggested incoorperating a physical diary of the main character but then we eventually came to the idea of a video diary. I think this fits the genre and location very well and could see it working really nicely with handhold shots and a 'Blair Witch Project' inspired look.
I think our idea is very good for what it is: an initial idea. Its a good basis but more planning is needed to develop backstory and justify creative decisions.
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