Our Idea

Today, we started to generate ideas and build on our existing one, we now have a clear idea for our two minute film opening. Our film follows a young girl, who is a photographer, that also suffers from multiple personality disorder, this causes her to take on another persona as a serial killer but being unable to remember it as her 'normal' self.

A brainstorm of our ideas

Our title sequence brainstorm

The opening will see her doing routine tasks, such as sitting in a coffee shop and taking and developing photographs, creating the illusion that she is a normal girl. As she takes the photos, an extremely quick flash of an image will appear on screen showing a crime scene and/or one of her victims. We want these flashes to be confusing for the audience to reflect her mental state and obliviousness to her crimes.

We have started to think about filming locations, we definitely want to film in the darkroom as it is quite mysterious due to the lack of light, we also feel like it offers a lot of opportunities for interesting shots and angles. This choice was partly inspired by the film 'Se7en', in which the killer's apartment has a darkroom. During the darkroom sequence, we also want to add our titles.



Our Darkroom (shown with both normal lighting and red lights)

 

 

Movie stills from 'Se7en' showing photographs in the darkroom

We have decided on a name for our film, but this could change if we think of something even better. We have chosen the title '4 Minutes', a reference to the time it takes to develop a photograph, however, it could also refer to the time it takes for the main character to carry out her crimes.

We want there to be a big emphasis on sound in the opening two minutes. We have decided not to include dialogue in order to create an unsettling silence. Whilst in the dark room, there will be numerous sounds, for example, the pouring of chemicals, a running tap and opening cupboards. We also want to have the very clear and distinct sound of a camera shutter as she takes her photographs. The sound of a ticking timer will also play throughout the opening, a reference to the title, but also in order to create an uncomfortable and uneasy atmosphere. We are planning to add in most of the sounds during post production through the use of Foley, this is to ensure that the sounds are not muffled and so that we do not have to worry about capturing the sounds during filming.

We liked the idea of having a close up shot of a timer
 counting down 

I like this shot as it is from an interesting angle and
emphasises perspective

We wanted to have a shot of some film strips and to also
include the titles in various interesting places