After we had decided on our idea of Organ trafficking we had to develop a story line and characters for our film opening. We also had to decided the story line for the rest of the film, even though we weren't actually going to make it. By doing this, it gave us a better understanding not only for our film opening but also the genre and how we were going to portray and link the characters further on in the story. We also decided on the name of our film 'The Organ Player'.
Treatment
Once we had our idea, our treatment became very useful to us as a team. The treatment aloud us to write down everything in one place which stopped people from having a rough idea in the head, it aloud all us in our team to put down our ideas and thoughts on to one document which mean t everyone knew the same things. We decided to make a list in what we should include on the treatment:
- Film Title
- Production Company name
- Film Duration
- Roles within the team
- Casting
- Details of each character
- Costumes
- Setting
- Synopsis (idea of the whole film)
- Lighting
- Sound
- Props
below is a picture of our treatment
We also came to the conclusion that everyone should write a part of the treatment each, this made it easier once we met up again to add bits in. This also made it easier for us as a team,as we didn't have 1 person write it then have them explain every part of it. This also speed things up for us as we knew that we wanted to start filming straight away, not only as we knew what we wanted to achieve but also to ensure we had plenty of time to edit our content in post production.
Casting
Once we had Decided on our ideas, we then went straight to our characters and who we were going to cast in these parts,we all had an image in our mind of what we wanted them to look like. We also wanted to keep the characters stereotypical to a certain extent. We wanted the girl to be weak but not a dumb blonde like in most horror films, so we decided to go with a brunet hair colour. For the doctor we wanted an older man and being creepy and scary. Below is a list we came up with, which is a description of each character should look like
Victim
- A Girl
- Innocent
- Young
- Teenage
- slim
- black/short dress
- medium height
- brown hair
Doctor
- Tall
- Male
- A lot Older than girl
- Psychotic
- Creepy/Scary looking
- Stereotypical
We decided to use a friend of ours to play the victim as well as being a good actress she also fitted the description well and offered to help us out. The role of the Doctor was played by a family friend of Lauren's, who again fitted the description very well and was also willing to help us out . By using people we knew and trusted this benifited us out hugely as we were able to contact them at any time to arrange filming times ect.
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