DEVELOPING OUR IDEA (1)

Developing Our Idea (1):

MAIN IDEA

Before we began to develop our chosen ideas as a group, we took into account the feedback from the initial pitches we did. For Lila's, the main feedback was: accuracy for the poison had to be researched, think of a practical location, and a higher sense of tension had to be created. Lila pre-researched the berries, and decided on Holly berries due to their toxicity, and I further read up on them to understand the symptoms created from them (vomiting, diarrhoea, dehydration and drowsiness - source www.poison.org), and the amount needed to cause fatality (20+ - source askinglot.com). Lila also chose kitchen/living room instead of a greenhouse, and as a group we brainstormed ideas and the best location was the Hurtwood boarding house due to its classical interior and accessibility. For tension, as a group we developed the following things: ominous isolated cello non-diegetic soundtrack, tweezers + ziplock bag + medical gloves to portray the toxicity, and a moment where the man hums contrapuntally.

BACKUP IDEA 

For Matthew's idea, he was given a list of things to develop in the pitch. These things were to: keep the cast limited, get into the kill straight away, choose a more isolated location, have the victim alone, and find a way to stretch the duration of the scene. Matthew decided to keep his location the same but changed the circumstances to there only being 2 girls, and placed the kill being at the beginning of the sequence. I provided the idea to place birthday balloons in the hallway and to have a shot of a birthday cake with people singing Happy Birthday contrapuntally in order to provide context, and to also add an even further sense of unease. 

We didn't do as much research into the possible location, actors etc. as this is our backup idea.