Early Stage Planning

we decided that our potential audience would be from the ages of 16 - 25

At first, we brainstormed many themes and genres, we thought of:
-documentary
-stereotypes
-national identity
-multi cultures
-karma
-crime
-youth violence
-war

Then, we thought about the purpose of our short film and we came up with either; to portray a message, or for experimentation.

From the above themes, we picked out the ones we liked best which were: karma, documentary and war themes. we chose these as we already had some ideas in our heads, and these were the themes that would fit in with our ideas.

Once decided, we came up with two ideas each (see other posts for full synopsis), and asked the teacher what eh thought about the ideas, he helped us what else to put into it, or how to tweak it to make it better, he also told us to get rid of one idea as it was too complicated for a short film. After the feedback, we wrote up a full synopsis for the other 3 ideas, and then asked some people what they thought about the ideas. When talking to people, i realised that most people liked my story about 'good and evil' above my 'internet dationg' idea, so i didn't use that one, and we ended up with two ideas to pick from, one from me, and one frome David.

In the end, we decided to use Davids idea about money problems and war as my idea would have been difficult to think of many events for each person to do.