Discussion of Ideas

On the 9th January, we decided to brainstorm ideas and concepts for our final product. This involved drawing spider diagrams for genre, scenario and film.

Mutually, we decided that comedy is the way to go, although we already knew this. Comedy plays to the strengths we have. Another genre that came up in discussion was action/drama parodies, where we mock famous action or drama films and add comedic touches to it.

Then we had to decide on scenarios. We both mentioned our love of gaming and Will Ferrell, so this supported our idea of comedy. This then meant we should try implicate the idea of the main character being a stereotypical 'nerd', as we know enough of how to portray 'nerds'.

With our genre and scenario set, we brainstormed ideas on what the film can be, where we came up with 5 final ideas. Listed below:

Outside: This would be a film about a gamer who rages at their game and ends up snapping the disc. This would then lead said gamer on a whole new adventure of the voyage outside of their bedroom, and into the scary place known as the 'outside world'. We decided that we could make a fairly technical, yet simple opening sequence for this idea.
Day in the life of a modern nerd: Once again this idea would be fairly easy for us to produce, as the humour that would be in this film, is the humour and both of us enjoy. It would be set out similar to a documentary, which is quite risky, where we would observe the test subject 'nerd' and see what a typical Saturday is like for him. We decided we could parody features of traditional documentaries, such as one-on-one interviews and casual observation. At this time, 9th January, this idea is probably our favourite and has received the backing of fellow classmates.
Action film boy: This opening sequence would be focused on a character who believes that he lives within an action film. There would be plenty of slow-motion and barrel rolls included. The character would also quote obscure movie references and scenes. The only thing lacking for this idea is how we would produce the opening sequence.
Christmas: Similar to the idea of a character living in an action film, this character wakes up every morning believing that it is Christmas. Once again, this idea would be hard to produce an opening sequence for, but we have some ideas that we could use. This idea, on 9th January, is our back-up plan, if all others seem to hard to produce.
Would you go out with me?: This would be a funny opening sequence to produce, where a character is obsessed over an internet model and decides to ask her out over a video on YouTube. We both agreed on a fairly comical, technical intro we could possiby produce for this film, so we like the look of this one at the moment (9th January)

After our media lesson on 9th January, I decided to briefly brainstorm a few possible names for our production in a spider diagram. At this time, I have only come up with one or two for each possible production but I need to discuss with Joe. Once we have the idea of the opening sequence we want to produce, it will be easier to decide an appropriate name.

The idea is to have a name that is funny, witty and relevant to our opening sequence. A clever pun would also fit in well with our genre.

16th January - We  are now certain on what film we are going to prodcue, it will be a "mockumentary" on the getting together of a group of teenage boys who play games together. We have decided that the name we are likely to use for our film will be something like "The reuniting of HYDC" or something similar, perhaps the "reunion". It reflects what our "Mockumentary" is about and is an interesting title, we also choose this one because it resembles what actual dockumentaries are about.