Inspiration...

The inspiration for our film came mainly from the film 'Friends With Benefits' although the ideas are completely different. When watching the film I loved the scene with the flash mob at Grand Central Station and as soon as I saw it I knew that filming in big station is a good, accessible and different idea. What I loved most about the scene is the different shots of the station and how busy it was which all tied together to make a really good scene to watch.

The inspiration for the music to go with our film came to us when we saw the Hombase advert. ,We knew we needed something simple and catchy and we liked the drum roll it has at the start so we knew it would work perfectly. 

Final film pitch...

Another idea we have had is to film in a train station and go back slightly to our original stalker idea. We decided that we needed to settle of either one of our ideas, this or the taxi one, and we realised that as much as we loved the taxi idea it was not easy to film, there was only certain days people had free and it seemed impossible to arrange a day which would work. This led us to our new and FINAL film idea we all love and is very flexible with filming days, here is our pitch:

Film research...

One idea we all love is filming inside of a London Taxi, this is different and will hopefully stand out from other groups. I have been looking at some films with the types of shots and angles which we will be using and the best example and guideline for us to look at is from Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. During this film there is a brief clip which will show us how our film may look and will help us with planning, below is the clip.

What I especially like about this scene is the centre shot of 'Bridget' in the back of the taxi, you can see all of her and it flows well with the other shot of the driver talking to her. The shot of the driver is also good however I would prefer to have a shot from the drivers point of view in our film.

Change is coming...

We had recently started filming for our final movie and once we started to edit it we all came to the conclusion that we no longer liked our idea and there was a lot of problems that we hadn't considered. We needed to re-think our idea because it started to become more and more complicated and we would never fit it into our time limit, so we had a total change. We got together and spoke about different ideas we had, we knew it needed to be simple and effective and not get too carried away with it like we did last time, we still wanted to do a thriller genre but just change our plot. We have a couple of ideas which we love and now we just need to decide which one is best.

Locations...

Now that we have our final film plan and have already started filming we have realised that there are lots of different locations we will need to go and film at, one of then being Tara's house which was where we did our first day of filming . We have planned to film at the Millennium Bridge, which being quite far and busy we will need to make sure that we get the filming done perfectly so that we won't need to come back. We decided on using various different locations so that we can include lots of different shot types and have a wide range right from the start of the film. We chose to use the Millennium Bridge after seeing it on an episode of Made In Chelsea (shown in the picture below) and felt that this was exactly what we wanted in our film.

Final Idea...

For our final idea we have decided that at the beginning you will see the back of a hooded man making a ransom letter. Then it will switch to the shot of a professional, glamourous woman returning home from work wearing sophisticated clothing. She will then find the letter but before opening it she will carry with her everyday routine e.g getting wine out of the fridge. When she finally opens the letter she drops the wine and runs and you will see the letter fall slowly and piece of the ransom left behind. You will then see her running across millennium bridge and lady smith football grounds because we think these settings will suit the story line best. While she is running, we thought it would be effective to have flashbacks of her troubled past and towards the end of the run she will have returned to her old, drug-abusing self. 
If this was to turn into a feature length film it would tell the story of what happened to the girl in order for her to be in this situation.

Fridge Vlog...

We had our first day of filming on Friday 22nd which was done at Tara's house, we shot the footage of her walking into the house and opening the fridge scene all of which took a little longer than planned. We decided to do a group vlog to update what we have been doing and since our camera was in the fridge we made it a little different, heres our fridge vlog.