Reply to email

We got a reply from Westwood First School on Monday during class. They asked us to forward them a copy of our parental consent form so they could distribute it to the children and we could be sure their parents are all right with our filming them. We sent it off to them yesterday, and hopefully it'll get approved quickly!

Dear Parents of yrs 3 and 4
On Wednesday the 14th January a group of Westwood College Media students are wishing to visit Westwood first school to film a group of year four children for their yr 12 media coursework project. If you do not wish to allow your child to participate please sign below. They have assured us that the film will not be placed on the internet and is only to be used for their coursework.

Yours Sincerely



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I do not give permission for my son/daughter …………………….……….………………………to be included in the media film from Westwood college.


Signed ……………………………………………. Parent/Guardian

Westwood First School E-mail

We sent an email to Westwood First School to confirm that we would be allowed to film their students on the playground for our film. Until we get a response we will not be storyboarding in case we don't get their permission, so hopefully they reply quickly and positively!

IDEA!

We put together four brief ideas that could be used towards the theme of psychological horror;

• amnesia
• schizophrenia
• delusions
• mental patient

For each of these ideas we came up with some ideas that would be used if we chose each one.

Schizophrenia
Split personality….
Weird visions ……
Believes they are two people…..
A kid at school sees a new kid at school but the truth is that it’s the other personality that the kid has…..
Mental patient
Could be set in a mental hospital showing the lives of patients.
The release of the main character who hasn’t fully recovered.
ESCAPE!!

Delusions
Blurred visions etc… shows images that aren’t real but seem to be there…..
Amnesia
Looking at Memento as an example which follows a similar storyline….
Maybe use opening as not action but links with the storyline i.e. memento uses photos.
A guy accused of a murder but has amnesia so can’t defend himself and he finds out that it was a setup.

After going over these ideas We have chosen the schizophrenia idea of a child at school. He is imagining a new child at school but not knowing that he has gained a split personality disorder and the new child at school, is actually his opposite personality, but he can’t see it because he sees everyone interacting with the child.

The opening will include

• A voice over
• children laughing
• slow motion of children planning (also slightly blurred)
• we will also have a colour cast of grey to show a distanced and depressing mood.