Journal: 22/11/2011

I today lesson we start to come up with ideas for our new films, in which we will eventually create a opening title sequence for. We started be jotting down ideas of films that we enjoyed watching. This gave us an idea of what sort of genre we would like to make our film. Whilst we where in this process the genres 'Comedy' and 'Horror' kept be mentioned, this sparked the idea of creating a black comedy. Black comedy, a kind of drama in which disturbing or sinister subjects like death, disease or warfare are treated with bitter amusement, usually in a manner purposely to offend and shock. This includes films like; Big Nothing, Cable Guy, 50/50 and Hot Fuzz. This triggered the imagination of the group to come up with this new and crazy idea. The story would be about a crazy teacher who starts to murder students. The comedy aspect of the film is the four leading characters (resembles E4's Imbetweeners) who are the students who find out about the disturbing truth about their teacher. From this lesson I learnt how to work a a team, come up with ideas and create a possible narrative for an upcoming film. This will be a key part of the process as the rest of our work will be dependent on this stage.