Moving Image Entry 2 - Kevin Ross:

Date: 11/02/2014
Module: Moving Image El342
Kent University

Team 07:
vp216 - Viknesh Prabhakar
kr278 - Kevin Ross
tjj7 - Thomas Jenkins
cb595 - Connor Brown
Tws6 - Thomas Stowell

Pre-Production:

Attendance:

For todays discussion only 3 of us attended to share ideas; Thomas Stowell, Kevin Ross, And Viknesh Prabhakar.

Further development on our story:

In development to our current idea we decided that it would be a good idea to set the scene of the time travel in the Forest/woods. The main character who is ill will be taking a trip into the woods where he will accidently come across some type of time warp which will be how he travels into the future. We had discussed the idea of him stumbling across the time warp after trying to commit suicide within the forest to end his degrading life. At this stage he may jump in water to drown or something similar and soon discover it will teleport him into the future where he then sets out to seeing if a cure had been made for him.

Character development:

- Gender: Male
- His name : Dom Maxwell
- Mental State: Depressed
- Financial status : Poor, unemployed.
- Age: Mid 20's
-Traits: Silver tongued. (Good at discussing, persuading, arguing.)
-Illness: Uncommon advanced flu
- Health: Physically deteriorating

Filming location ideas:

For the forest we have discussed the idea of using the trees and wild fauna around our campus due to our location being restricted to The University Kent Campus. It can closely represent the idea of a forest due to the presence of trees water and plant life.
Furthermore we could use such a location such as the science labs as a clinic or location where the cure may be made or located. This would be a suitable location since it represents science and medicine.
For the filming locations at the time when Dom is waking up we can use any dorm room found around campus, most likely in the Elliot building since it has poor living conditions which could represent Dom's Financial status and reason why he is prone to illness.


Props for our film:

As for props we have further discussed about the cure and how it will be represented. We were thinking to keep the so called cure in a vile shaped glass ( to look like a potion of some sort) Where the liquid can have a very noticeable colour. For this we discussed using an energy drink or colour water .By adding colouring inside our water we could make a very bold mixture to make our cure look "out of the ordinary" which you would expect in a futuristic world, almost like a  mad science experiment.

Possible additional characters and their part in the story:

We had discussed as a group the idea of giving the story more of a plot to not make it too straight forward. We felt that there is usually always an opposing force against the main character in films therefore we agreed that it would be beneficial to introduce some type of antagonist for our main character. Firstly I had the idea of introducing a police like force that intervenes with time travellers to send them back since travelling in time is illegal for them in the future. Therefore if they were in the movie they would have the role of trying to capture our character and send him back to his death.
Another possible character would be the drug dealer we have previously discussed, His role in the story could be that he holds the potential life saving drug that would help our character however our character cannot achieve the money or whatever is needed to buy the drugs.

Storyboard:

We have started development on our story board. We have looked into the stages of waking up and receiving a call to alert him of his illness towards when he is walking towards forest and through the time warp.
The story board is required for us to further proceed in our film as it allows us to observe where could be suitable location, who could be suitable actors and what techniques of filming we could use.