Planning - Individual evaluation of the 6 min challenge idea

The 6 minute challenge involved us to come up with a quick opening idea for an opening title sequence. We were given a location and prop to selected at random and then the title of our film was again chosen at random, by Wikipedias' random article option. We selected an opening in a forest and a diary, and got the name Biduiyeh-ye Nakhai, which then became very easy for us to select a genre which those two could fit in together nicely and the title could be the name of the location. We first decided to do a documentary film as the forest location gave us the idea that would be easy to do, and we then put our own interpretation of a normal diary and decided it would be better as a video diary as typically in a documentary film they are commonly used to document what the actor/actress is witnessing and experiencing. After some more thought for a storyline we then decided it would be best if we switched genres and did a horror but in the style of a documentary, so a hybrid genre, which we got inspiration from The Blair Witch Project and Chernobyl Diaries. After finalising this decision we thought up of the idea that the opening title sequence would actually be the ending of the completed film so after the title sequence the film would go on to explain how the main character got himself in the situation and give much more context. With more time on planning I think that this idea could be a success if we develop it in much more detail and focus on the character's profile and come up with a much more detailed storyline as we have decided to use this initial idea as our final production.