Developing one of my chosen ideas

Due to my production partner and I not being able to make a final decision on our idea, based on our current conclusions I decided to develop our two favourite ideas of which we can pitch to our teachers and audience and allow them to decide.

Deciding on my idea

I created this table to look at both what would work well in each idea and the possible problems and limitations associated. I decided that overcoming a major limitation in 'disaster' with the scenery would be to copy our idea in our trailer remake task which saw us use playmobil people. This would create a visually engaging piece without any location issues seen with the production of other trailers. After this task both my group partner and I have decided that the imaginary friend idea is our favourite and our next step will be to develop this idea.

Initial ideas- Disaster

A struggle with a happy ending
The struggle is surviving, so yes there is a struggle in the storyline, there will be a happy ending, this would be created if I am to develop this idea 

Characters that are easy to relate to
There would be a variety of character ages (main focus on adults), genders and ethnicity's in the film, meaning characters would be easy to relate to, to my target audience.

Unexpected twists and turns
The plot is action filled so there would be lots of unexpected twists to the storyline.

A drama with an aspect of fantasy
The disaster survival aspect makes it a drama whilst the fact that this has never happened before would make it somewhat fantasy.

A film about friendship, hopes and dreams
The film would record various friendships and many peoples hope to survive.

Initial ideas- My friends

A struggle with a happy ending
The struggle sees a mother and father desperately trying to help their daughter understand that her friends are not real.

Characters that are easy to relate to
The characters would be in their mid-late 30s and children, they'd also be living in a family settings making all characters involved easy to relate to.

Unexpected twists and turns
I can think of this if I develop the idea into a full storyline. It could be something like the young girl running away.

A drama with an aspect of fantasy
This is clearly a drama with the 'struggle' aspect to it, whilst the imaginary friends side to the story gives it an aspect of fantasy.

A film about friendship, hopes and dreams
There is a key theme of hope in that the young girl forgets about her imaginary friends.

Initial ideas- Separated

My first idea 'Seperated' is a film about two twins who are separated at birth and lead identical lives unaware of each others existence. I will use a short checklist to see if it fits the 'brief' that I constructed earlier...

A struggle with a happy ending
There is no struggle, it is merely two twins who meet up after years of separation. Once the idea has been developed a little more, there could be a struggle such as accepting the fact that they had a twin all along, this, however, may not be particularly gripping. 

Characters that are easy to relate to
The characters would be in their late 20s-30s, and live in family settings making all characters involved easy to relate to.

Unexpected twists and turns
I can think of this if I develop the idea into a full storyline.

A drama with an aspect of fantasy
This is clearly a drama with the 'separated at birth' aspect to it, and the telepathy makes it somewhat fantasy too.

A film about friendship, hopes and dreams
This film is almost more about family rather than friends and has no key theme of hope.

Finalising my research

After a lot of research I have enough information for me to be able to construct some initial ideas. All of my research has acted almost as a 'design brief' for a new product. It has not only shown me what is expected of my trailer, not only as a trailer but a trailer of the drama genre, it has shown me what my audience want from a film in terms of the storyline and microaspects and it has also told me what I should and maybe shouldn't include in my trailer. I have simplified my findings into this simple sheet which I can look through when producing my ideas.

The brief from GeorgiHonnor

Survey results

I created a survey to ask my target audience what they liked in a film, this will again help me construct my initial ideas. It is clear that my audience like characters that they can relate to, a realistic storyline with aspects of fantasy and a struggle with a happy ending.

I also asked my audience 'What makes an interesting story?'. I learnt that my audience like...

-Lots of unexpected twists/turns

-An uncertain ending

-Lots of action to make it interesting

-The unforeseeable

-Tension