Initial Ideas

When we were told what we were going to have to do, my group decided that we wanted to do something different. We didn't want to do a horror opening sequence, or a rom-com, because we thought that everyone would go for that option. We wanted to focus on comedy.

After looking at different openings on the apple macs, we found one that we wanted to take ideas from; Napoleon Dynamite. In the beginning of that film, the opening credits are on different objects and it is a cool way to begin a film.

At the same time, we thought about what we could contribute to the clip. We all realised that we have some connection to performing arts; I play an instrument, Chloé sings, dances and acts, and Hannah and Cindy both act and dance. So we thought that we would involve that into our clip.
We scrapped the idea of the Napoleon Dynamite beginning as we couldn't see how it would fit in.

We then agreed on the idea of a performing arts type school (influence from Fame).
We then decided to look at school based films, such as Mean Girls.

At the moment, our clip is based on a boy, who is an outsider in his school (performing arts school); he's rejected by everyone and this is what we are going to try to show.
We are going to have a band, a dancer and an actor, as well as the person who is going to play the main character.

We want to start the clip off with the year book and inside the year book, the credits will show, as well as seeing the pictures of each group. The camera will zoom into each picture to show the group and the rejection of the 'loser'.


I think this is a good idea, but I think that maybe we are trying to fit too much into a two minute opening. I think that when we're back at school my group and I should go over the idea again, so we can maybe make it a little less packed, and so we all have a clear vision of how it is going to go in our head.