First thoughts on our project

Planning + Development: First thoughts on the project...

Before we come up with any ideas for the 2 minute opening of our film, our group thought it would be a good idea to think first, about what locations we could use and what atmosphere we would like to create. 

Location: 

There was not much thinking involved with this, as the conventional location for a motor-sport film is on a race track and we have a race track we are able to film on, but for other scenes we thought that run-down areas were quite common in the motor-sport sub-genre. 

Atmosphere

As a group we decided that in the opening 2 minutes of our film we wanted to create a sad and tense atmosphere which could include a crash. We could also do this through editing in non-diagetic sounds such as a sad sound track or diagetic sounds being emphasized such as the breathing of the protagonist to create tension.

Character

We did not have too many thoughts on the characters apart from the obvious; the protagonist being male and having lots of close-ups of him.