These first two weeks we were briefed on our project options, picked our briefs, and began to form groups. During the briefing I came up with some ideas and formed a group with Alex Fell.
We came up with some lists of references, some initial character concepts and started a pinterest board to map out ideas. Then Tomas Swann messaged me looking for a group, I pitched him our concept and he joined us. In the second week we had did a workshop on developing ideas and then had to present our initial concepts to the class.
We decided on some roles each of us wanted to take on, and I tend to find myself working as a producer because I love me a good spreadsheet. We listed all the steps we needed to ake to complete the film and I put together a working Gantt chart to keep us on track.
We also decided on a mission statement and logline for the film, as we had a lecture from Robert Bradbrook, who really emphasized having a specific statement about intention and audience to guide the filmmaking process.
An eldritch creature, isolated in the void, destroys itself in attempts to create purpose.
We are having some creative differences as I am finding myself wanting to push the concept to the more abstract, especially with character design and my group mates seem to want to go very humanoid, but I’m sure through some character workshopping we can settle on a design we like. I created a quick concept design to show what I was visualizing the film would look like.