Technology
For the opening sequence for the film about artificial intelligence, it would be hard to convey a long space of time and the evolution of technology in 2 minutes, instead, I could film it in the near future, so news reports about artificial intelligence in the real world and don’t use time lapses as that shows time passing, instead I could just use establishing shots edited in with shots of a daily routine to make the protagonist more relatable. Shots of someone making their cereal or toast and going out, while out he will go into a technology shop and buy a new UI for his computer, when he goes to buy it, he is informed about a new AI UI that is free for beta testers, he applies for the beta testing, uploads it to his computer and it says “hello” then the ending scene finishes, I want to make the scene slow paced as it will show normality in the man’s life, this will create a more realistic setting for a science-fiction film as to not break the suspension of disbelief, similar to the movie 'Her' (2013).
The other alternative for the opening scene is that the man developed the software himself as he is a software developer and then used himself as the test subject as the world is scared of the AI technology and he wants to show people that it is the way forward so he decides to live with it first. Then make the rest of the film to be a kind of modern ‘Frankenstein’ where the man realises that he was stupid to make it, then he leaves it and while he leaves it, it becomes corrupted, then it starts texting the man and threatening him, however the man doesn’t realise that it is the AI sending the messages, then the AI decides to start making fake social media accounts of the man posting racist and sexists posts then he gets fired from his job and loses his friends and everything and then he releases it is the AI doing it and then the rest of the film is him trying to shut it down.
Mental Illness
The opening scene is too slow paced, so I need to change it around, maybe start with the murder of the protagonist it may be hard to film but if done right it can be done effectively, for example, ‘Casino’ starts with the murder of the protagonist. How I could do this scene is the man being shot with a narration by the protagonist talking about bad decisions he has made in his life and then he gets shot, then he says “by far the worst decision i ever made was…” and it cuts to him pleading insanity in court and the judge sentencing him to 20 years in a institution for the criminally insane. This scene could work well or if you see the man getting killed, the audience could lose interest in the film as they know the ending, however, the rest of the film especially when he escapes with two of the other patients the rest of the film could be a guessing game of who killed him.
This scene is the one that the group is using for our final idea. We thought that the idea was the most practical to film and wasn’t a bad idea, we don’t want to show the murder taking place as that would make the scene unnecessarily difficult to film as the choreography would be a hassle, so we decided to start the film after the murder had taken place and then there is a stand off between the police man and the murderer, this stand off is shown as a oner moving up and down the two characters, and then moves to the other side of the characters and a dead body is revealed. This will be easier to film as there will have to be minimal choreography and special effects as the opening scene is just the suspense of either the girl stabbing the police officer, the police officer shooting the girl or the arrest, this is a easier way to create tensions as used in many 'westerns', it is the suspense of is the protagonist going to shoot first or die.
The first test shoot we did, we didn't have enough of an idea about what we were doing, the shoot was unorganised, and proved a hassle to edit as we got board of the idea very quickly and picked it apart until it no longer made sense. We edited the first test shoot and got the idea of completely changing the opening scene to the girl after the murder happened so the audience works out that she did it, but the rest of the film is based around working out if she did it or not.
The first test shoot we did, we didn't have enough of an idea about what we were doing, the shoot was unorganised, and proved a hassle to edit as we got board of the idea very quickly and picked it apart until it no longer made sense. We edited the first test shoot and got the idea of completely changing the opening scene to the girl after the murder happened so the audience works out that she did it, but the rest of the film is based around working out if she did it or not.
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