Production Meeting

After hearing our feedback we discussed how we could use it to improve our idea.

We decided that we don't want our sequence to be too complicated with too much happening. We thought the more we involved in it, the more it would stray away from conventions of social realism. Instead we will have one main character and no other actors, and no other people seen in the sequence. This will keep the viewers focus on the characters behaviour, actions and what he says as he narrates.

As we have decided to base our sequence on teenage violence, by taking out all of the character who would initially have been representing violence and anti social behaviour, we realised we won't have a lot in the sequence that would tell the viewers that it is based on teenage violence. So we came up with the idea that we should use visual clues such as crushed beer cans, cigarette butts, graffiti and vandalism in the background and around where the main character walks. This would suggest that there had been some sort of disruptive behaviour happening in the area. Accompanied by the narrators thoughts and feelings on his background which involved violence, the audience will then get more of a sense of what our film will be based on.

Another thing we discussed was using music in our sequence. We decided against the idea of the main character putting headphones in, then music starting. We thought this would seem too stylized for social realism. We also thought that the kind of music we had in mind (e.g. The Streets) could speed up the pace of the sequence. It may also distract the viewers attention from what the narrator is saying which is important in our sequence. So as we decided against the soundtrack, we agreed to emphasise smaller noises such as sirens in the background, footsteps on gravel etc. to stop the sequence seeming silent and therefore being boring.

After discussing and tweaking our idea we are a lot happier with it as it is now more practical and realistic and we can imagine how the outcome will be.