Executive Decision to Change our Plot

Our original plot was going to be that of a kidnapping that occurs at the fair, and is then the mother of the twins' journey to save her children. The film would also have been set in the 1950s, as to take advantage of the setting we had (a vintage fairground) and to be able to use the second world war as a stimulus for the reasoning behind the kidnapping.

Unfortunately, when I asked permission to film on the fair, they agreed to let us film, but they did not like the idea of the negative connotations associated with fair grounds portrayed through the kidnapping. In order to keep the owners and managers happy, we made an executive decision to alter our plot. The time setting of our film would have been the fifties , and in order to make the idea of kidnapping realistic, the fair would of had to have been busy. We would also have had to keep to the verisimilitude of the era, and this would have been unrealistic to have tried to achieve on such a large scale, with the resources that were available to us, so we decided to also change the era.

We liked the idea of a split family from our original plot, and the search to find them again as a theme, and we also liked the setting of the fairground, so we decided to keep these two factors in our new plot. The setting of our new idea is going to be post-apocalyptic, with the reasoning behind the apocalypse questioning and opposing social media.We wanted the plot to be set in a world where the apocalypse has occurred but we did not want the typical zombie apocalypse film, rather we wanted the film to make people think, and question the social reality in which they live, with Social Media playing a huge part in most people's lives, and almost, taking control of the world.

What We Want to Achieve in our Opening

In our opening, our main objective is to draw in the audience, and create an enigma, that will later be resolved, in order keep the audience engaged with the plot. We will achieve this by:

• Beginning after the inciting incident has happened, going against Todorovs theory, and then as the film progresses, the events leading up to the beginning. 
• The initial sequence will be a number of different shots of places that would normally be busy/ have people there, but are empty. This will create a very early enigma of where are all the people?
• Sound effects: Our Non- Diagetic sound is going to start before the Visuals do, so this will draw in the audiences attention.

Filming

We were originally going to film at Prospect Park on Saturday 23rd march, unfourtunately, however, due to weather, the fair is not going to be open on that weekend, so we have had to reschedule to the follwing weekend, and so have scheduled to film the second half of our film that week instead.

Location -Shottesbrooke Park

The location that I have found for us to film the latter half of our opening is going to be filmed. It is a park close to where i live called Shottesbrooke park, and is a very historical park, so will fit in with the versimillitude of a different time period. Here is the Wikepedia Page of the are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shottesbrooke

The area of the park we could use looks very eery, which would fit in with the mood of the scene, as it cuts straight from immediately after the kidnapping, to a while after the kidnapping, when she is trying to find her children. Here are some of teh photos I took of the area: