Current Plot

At this point we have a plot that I feel we are all happy with, some changes are likely to be made however I think that this is a good idea to work around. 

These are the working notes that we have been using. It includes a lot of ideas about camera angles as well as areas that will need input from the entire team to figure out.

Night, a young boy walking up a dark, dimly lit street and entering his house. – costume would be a thick coat. Looking at floor as he walks. Camera shot can be handheld and slightly shaky to match with him walking. Cut to a still establishing shot of the entire house. To begin with no one is on screen, boy will then walk up the street into shot and enter the house. This part should be filmed on tripod.

Boy enters house and is shouted at by mother – Match on action for when we cut from the wide shot of the entire house and the boy opening the front door to the corridor on the inside of the house. The door will be opened, boy walks in and instantly will be berated by off-screen parent. (Perhaps only the hands of the parent shouting will be shown, letting the audience know the boy is being screamed at, yet not showing the actual character.) After he is shouted at the boy will storm off towards his room. Camera changes to a wider shot of the sliding window door that leads into room. He enters the room before slamming the sliding door shut (Concerns about glass shattering can be handled by either speeding up the slam in post, or being very careful)

The boy will decide to run away, shots of him packing a bag with clothes followed by the same shot used earlier when he enters the house, however we show the boy exiting from the house with his bag. From here we will inter-lay shots of corfe castle and the other places he wanders once he has escaped. Any input from here would be excellent.

Towards the end of the film we wanted to try and include my granddad. He will be down from Newcastle for a few days in December and can play guitar.