Task 4 The Pitch : Mind Maps

This was our final mind map for the planning of our film, the one in which we actually decided to follow and create our film around. 

We wanted to make sure that we included most things if not every detail from this mind map as we thought it was the best one we created. We seperated our mind maps into six sections: Locations, Representation, Costumes, Characters, Plot and Codes/Convention of a *chosen genre*.

For our final idea, which was a romance, we decided we would like the majority of the opening sequence to be located in a cafe, bar, restuarant or somewhere where the two characters could share a drink or food together after they met (which would be shown had we made our film into a full-length feature). Towards the end of planning we decided it would be best that our two characters first meet in a cafe as it is more quieter and gives the scene a more intimate feel and that is what we wanted as this is such an important moment in both Harriet and Louise's lives.

In our opening sequence, we wanted to show that it wasn't going to be a stereotypical romance where two heterosexual twenty-something year-old people meet and fall in love. So instead we decided to have our two main characters homosexual and also two girls, as when 'gay' movies are normally made they usually show homosexual males and so we wanted to show lesbians in our film instead to show diversity. We also wanted to show a younger love story so teenagers could also relate to it as they'd understand what the characters are going through as they are going through it and adults would relate as they have already been through it.

We wanted to keep our costumes basic so we decided we'd have two for Harriet: one for her getting out of bed and one for wearing outside, one for Louise and one for the waiter. We wanted to show Harriet as more of a 'tom-boy' like character so we chose darky colours and unisex clothing. For Harriet, even though only shown for a few seconds, we wanted to have her in lighter colours and even maybe some makeup, in order to give off a more girlier vibe. For the waiter we decided we wanted to give it a stereotypical 'waiter' type look.

There are only minimal characters as as it is only the opening sequence of a film we thought that not many people would be introduced so we kept it at only three.

We tried to create an exciting storyline and one that would captivate an audience and so we decided to add in something different and give it a fantasy-like feel, which is shown by the timer that each person has on their arms.

For the codes and conventions that we wanted to use in our storyline, we decided to use more subtle things rather than cliche conventions. We wanted to include an internal monologue like most romances have and show emotions within that and so we incoporated the use of a diary which Harriet uses to write down her emotions. We wanted to show sexuality within our film and so we used young lesbian characters in order to do so.

We also produced other mind maps which consisted of two different genres: horror and comedy.