Day 2 - Brainstorming

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 Today, me the director, and the cinematographer began to develop the beginning scenes for our storyboard. Even though we had the basis of what the film was about, we had to break it down and apply to a format to where the viewer won't get lost in what they're watching. To begin this process we had to think of how we were going to start the film, include the title alongside  the credits, and leave the audience on a cliff hanger. Doing all of these steps required us to make a shared group Word document where we just wrong down all the idea we had in mind and the inspiration towards them. The cinematographer is the one who initiated the idea of the word document and thank to her, I was able to come up with a unique way to include the title and credits in the film without it looking forced.


My genius idea was to have the title be written on a script and passed along the cast until it reaches the main character. The context behind this is that as stated before, our character is in a false reality where he is put in a 90's sitcom as an actor but in reality he's been kidnapped. The passing of the script is gonna cause dramatic irony due to the audience understanding that the main character is in the sitcom before he does himself. As the scripts are passed around its going to have each characters name on it and as they receive it they will have a face reveal. This sequence will continue until a script is handed to the main character. Then the sitcom will start and a live audience will start laughing at a joke  but the laughing is all automated. 


The cinematographer wanted to add scenes after giving her opinion that the main character should wake up from an illusion and realize they are in a production of a sitcom. With them not knowing  where they are or why they are there, they run away scared. Something happens resulting in the actor blacking out

Another scene added by a the team was to show the eyes of actor shown waking up, pan out to them in a chair with lights shining in their eyes.


This overall sequence should last the 2 minute requirement and leaves the audience on a cliff hanger on what's going to happen next.



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