Rough ideas

For this project I am working with Carrie Marples, Hannah Grencis, Ryan Wroe, Terry Silver and Billy Jackson. We came up with the idea that we didn't want to have to use any actors for this module because of the very tight time frame we have to film the 2 minute piece in, and this would be quite difficult to find an actor who would definitely be free in the 2 hour slot we have to film in. This helped us come up with the idea of using puppets and shadows. At first we thought of just using the puppet doing some actions while his shadow could be doing something completely different. But to make it simpler for us considering the time scale, we have ended up with the idea to just use shadows. The basic idea is to have the set build like an outdoor area, with a tent in the middle. With the sheet used as the tent we will have the shadows moving around by the use of puppets (which won't be on screen). We haven't thought too much about the other elements that need to be included yet which are, wallpaper and green screen, however we will be having a group meeting at some point this week to further develop the idea.

I have looked for some images using shadows on tents or sheets that are used in a more dark and creepy way and I found some good examples of the sort of things we'll want our film to look like in the photos above.