Updates on My Story - Thursday 6th October

As our Contextual studies lesson with Louis was cancelled today I wanted to look into my story a little more and see how I can develop it.

Title: Lost And Found
I still feel like this is the best title I have thought of. I think it states what the film is about quite well, Lost (The Body - Relatives wondering where they are) Found (Two friends finding each other)

Genre: I still an a little undecided, I feel this can work well as both a comedy and a drama. I think I will see how the script goes and maybe a little more feedback from others in the group.

Updates on ideas: I think my opening shot can be the body laying on the ground with some eerie music in the background. I think it would be good to then suddenly cut to the two people walking towards each other. That we know right away that the body has some influence on the film.
After the two friends bump into each other I feel they should go somewhere together to catch up over a meal or a drink. Drink is probably more realistic... I would like it to be set that they are probably walking a long the beach and then they spot the washed up body. However I'm not sure how this would work as I'm not sure how realistic it is for two people to catch up then suddenly walk along the beach. Then again, if its a comedy I'd say it doesn't have to be really realistic.


Possible endings: I have a few ideas on how it could end. Possibly we find out it was one of the characters relatives who killed this mystery person. Another idea would be that one of the characters was actually involved in the murder of this person. It could also end with the body not actually being dead (This would work best in the comedy genre) I think I need to think about all options properly for the ending before i work out what will be before it. I have a lot of good ideas for the middle but I need the ending to be sorted before I decide which parts I can put in the middle.

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Expanding on my inspiration for the parts of this story.

Meeting an old friend after a long time comes from personal experience. I met an old friend at a job I had just started. Simon said when I mentioned this whether this was awkward. For me personally it wasn't but maybe thats a twist I could add to my story that it was really awkward. Maybe I could have a little story that they stopped being friends for a certain reason that gets brought up in their conversation.

Washed up body? If i do stick with this idea there was no proper inspiration. You see it a lot in documentaries and dramas on TV so I probably just saw one of those on the day of my original plans.

Overall I am getting there with the story, I will talk with other people in the group about my idea and the possibility that others may have some cool ideas to make my story better. Personally I have found it interesting how this story has come together. I didn't think i'd really be making a story like this when I first heard the brief.