Pre-production Week 1

Trying out the university's filming equipment.

I apologise for the late entry but here it is, the first entry of the film production diary. What we did for this week was to pitch in and discuss the ideas we came up with for the short film. The starting point/theme of the project is 'The Greatest Day'. After some discussion, we settled with a suspense film about a girl's supposed greatest day that did not turn out what she expected.

The following is the basic idea of the short film:

• Girl was excited because it was her birthday.
• According to the notes and messages Girl received, her friends and house mates could not celebrate her birthday due to reasons like being out of town or busy with work.
• No one was in the house except her.
• Girl had rough day. Frustrated from study and work. Felt paranoid as she thought someone is tailing her.
• Returned home but some thing did not feel quite right.
• Things went missing and Girl felt that someone or something was in the house.
• Girl look around the house. Heard noises. Not sure if she was going crazy.
• Film ends with her going into the kitchen, finding out her friends throw her a surprise birthday party.

We also started playing around with the filming equipments as shown in the picture above.