Progress for my initial ideas

Here is some further ideas to which I have elaborated from my initial ideas, on top of choosing destinations and making decisions upon what to do within and for my video.
This is also a list for further things to do, not necessarily in this order:

• Establish different settings
• Make a production logo
• Take pictures and make storyboards
• Audience/cert research
• Typical titles order
• Costume design
• Analysis of 'Don't Look Now' and 'The Ring', as both films have influenced our opening piece
• Our video profile (include our demographics - 16-24 year old -, shooting schedule, etc...)

We will gradually pace ourselves as a group through these separate sections in order to help progress our intelligence, as well as upload these upon our blogs. The order will relate to further research, gradually forming into our video profile, as this will then be chronological towards our video.

Locations to be featured in our video:

• A bedroom - most likely Jess' - will open the video, revealing the individual asleep

Within the dream, various locations that are not too distant from mine and my partner's villages. We are considering:

• A tunnel leading from Blaby to Whetstone
• Fields in Cosby
• Benches and trees situated near the Chip shop in Cosby
• An establishing shot from a bridge of a park in Whetstone
• A low angle shot from the park, filming the red-hooded figure on the bridge in Whetstone
• A long, lingering path in Whetstone
• Under a large, dark bridge between Cosby and Whetstone
• Trees within a public park in Blaby

A scene features the red hooded girl holding an object, which we are considering to be a heart necklace as this appears gold and may be money worthy. However, it may also have deeper meaning and have sentimental value, adding a thoughtful almost psychological twist into this opening. This necklace belongs to Jess, therefore being of an easy, none-costly prop to use

We are considering shooting this scene where the character holds and then drops this object in front of a blank background, as this would lure attention to this character. Rather than spending money on a canvas, we may use a white, blank wall from the bridge between Blaby and Whetstone, or a black background from a skateboard ramp in Whetstone. Both would lure the eye towards the character, rather than the setting.

As we are using a range of significant montages, we have compelled a series of ideas to which may relate to the rest of the plot of the film. Our first ideas for the Significant Montage of are follows:

• Extreme up close of a woman's chin, showing her applying lip sticks onto her lip. We may shot reverse shot this with a shot in between breaking this, with her lipstick smudged. This shows women - in particular the sleeping dreamer - being affected
• Blood dripping, shown tilted from the side for a distorted effect
• An upclose to a handle going down, revealing opening cases.
• Taps with water, that then morph into blood liquid pouring out. This is gruesome.
• An upclose of a book from the side, to a page turning. This is influence from 'Se7en', as the opening scene features many similar images to this. This could represent information trying to be gathered within this film
• Shadow of the red hooded figure scurrying past - shows she lurks throughout film
• Poster being ripped - shows distress
• A videocamera - old vintage one Jess owns - this shows more primary research from the character, as she may research who this individual within her dream is
• Nail varnish firstly there, then a shot reverse shot then showing it being chipped. This shows a womanly, feminine feature again being fractured.