Development of our Idea

As a group we presented our idea to our teacher and to the rest of the class. From presenting our idea it allowed our teacher to understand our idea. From the beginning we knew that our ideas was big and that it would be a lot of work, although from our discussion we realised that our plot in general was far to complicated for an opening two minutes of a title sequence. Instead of establishing the story we were focusing on telling the story. This is when we realised we were trying to take on two much for our opening. If we had not thought about this, when filming and editing we would have had a problem as we were telling the story in to much detail instead of just establishing the plot. We also would have not had enough footage as each scene would not have been long enough and we would only be telling half of the story.

When we first came up with our idea, this is not what we wanted to happen. This is when we went away as a group and discussed this issue. From our discussion we have come to an agreement of what we are going to do.  We are going to stick with our initial idea, although we are going to alter and adjust the plot so that it makes 2 minutes. The first part of the opening in which we have decided to cut out is the Trafalgar Square scene. This was decided upon as on reflection of our initial storyboard we realised that this scene was irrelevant to what we were trying to establish. The second part we have also decided to cut out is with the male character walking down the alley way. Again here, the audience do not need to see him walking down the alley way. By cutting these two scenes out it has considerably cut our plot down. However, from doing this we still have enough of the plot to be able to change and develop anything that we need to do in a later stage.

From presenting our idea to our teacher and to the class it has helped us as a group to realise that we were taking on something far to big for what were were wanting to establish. I have come to realise as an individual how to develop an idea so that it is effective with less detail. This has helped me to realise that it is that we were taking on to big of a task. I also am now aware and realise that we didn't need our idea to be full of detail. It will be more effective if its shorter and does have as much detail. From this task, I believe I now understand how to develop an idea to make it much more effective and also how having less detail can be much more effective than having lots of detail and it being far to complicated for an opening.