Initial Ideas

For our initial ideas we came up with a number of ideas. One of our first ideas was a story of a depressed lifestyle of a young man and how his life is destroyed after a break up from his current girlfriend. The film would have documented his fall into depression as his life spirals out of control. The opening of the film would show part of the break up between the two. We planned for the film to be quite dark to try and get the emotional feel over of the young mans depression.

One of our other ideas was the story of a adopted. The boy is beaten by his adopted parents. The story would focus upon the aspect of the boy running away from his adopted parents and issues he has in his life. The opening would feature the boy running away from his adopted parents house and to the countryside/seaside. It would be suggested he is getting beaten at the start of the film he then runs away, hence the name "Runaway". We planned to film this in the same style of our original idea i.e. dark grim setting. We planned to show the grimy urban setting of the suburbs and the wide open spaces of the calm seaside/countryside. We chose this second idea as well there was more substance to this second idea. We chose to follow up this idea as we felt there was more interesting things we could for the opening sequence compared to the first idea. Another reason we chose this is we could hopefully show the contrast between the dark grim urban areas to the wide open, calm space for the 2nd half. We felt the juxtaposistion of the two locations would help with showing the characters different emotions.