This week, each group present their pitch to the class which included their synopsis as well as their inspiration and which areas of production they want to focus on. Here’s a quick summary of each of the different projects

Michael, Cody, Lydia and Adrian – Disposal Project/Lost

This group’s project is spilt into two parts

Disposal Project

• Hitchcock alive today
• Rope meets Hangover
• Hungover friends wake up to find a corpse, have to find a way to dispose of it
• Story used as a vessel for stylistic flair
• Four chapters, changing roles for each chapter, all taking a turn over each role
• Not represented chronologically, delivered out of order

Lost

• But applying similar techniques, could be working together?
• Production design: white dresses, bush
• Technical explorations: layers, smoke machine, angles,
• Thematic explorations: obstacles, environment as a character

Alana, Sam C, Darleen and Jeyda – Sentiment Creeping In

• Inspiration from Poem
• Landscape, colour palettes, experimenting with deep and shallow focus
• Only natural light, only one character on screen at any time
• 3 locations
• Exploring different shots
• Script based from Poem
• Possibly adding text on screen to set a deep tone
• Colour grading
• Filming in Macedon, Williamstown beach and a house

Cindy, Eie Kie and Zhen – 電梯 (The Lift)

• Chinese dialogue, might not have subtitles
• Sci-fi/Horror/Fantasy
• Couple, lift breaks down
• Takes them to the wrong level, little creepy girl
• Annabelle, The Ring
• Lift takes them different places
• Filming two different lifts, one light, one dark

Aria, Margot, Maddy and Niki

• Sci-fi
• Isolation theme
• Selective colour, (blue and orange)
• Reflections from mirrors, glass series
• Filming in the CBD, Southbank, Docklands
• Inspiration: Cleo from 5-7, Her, Moonlight

Kerry, Ryan and Kate

• Six locations
• One each week, looking at exploring the space
• Using improvisation
• Establishing a scene
• Fluid camera movement
• Inspiration: Carrie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Four Weddings and Funeral, Song to Song

Louise, Rosie, Bell and Sam

• Bowls club
• Two old men, dancing together
• Shot at night
• 70’s, Auscore feel
• Focusing on cinematography and production design