By next monday's lesson!:

1. Make script for our film.
2. Take location shots. (See http://alexreecelcascw.blogspot.com/2010/01/location.html)
3. Make a storyboard.
4. Create animatic of storyboard.
5. Make the pitch better.
6. Character Profile
7. Update research so it's good.
8. Maybe research other things e.g. costumes or fonts.
9. audience profile

After considering our feedback from our pitch we have decided to try and appeal to a wider audience.
The class said they thought our Sherlock Holmes style appealed more towards the older generation thus making it boring, they also suggested a younger character and to get a clearer idea on flashbacks. We have decided to change our narrative as follows:

A boy has lost his father. He is 18ish and is searching frantically throughout his old abandoned house. As he sees something he gets a flashback to earlier in his life with his father (before he died). He then carries on searching throughout the house, goes upstairs and finds a body with a tattoo on it. He gets out an old piece of paper, compares markings and the door burst open. The boy picks up a knife. Blackout/

For the name of our film we were thinking conspiracy.
This is going to be a working title in case we find something more fitting later on :)

since the project is now going to be based on a mystery drama, i want to do some research into the kind of charectors which might show up in these kinds of films, particularly the detective. typically a detective wears a long, brown jacket and a hat, maybe glasses. They are varying heights and dont usually appear as muscular aggressive people but more intelligent and iterlectually talented. i havent discussed with alex yet but tommorow i can share these ideas with her. i personally would like the detective to be a steryotypical cartoon styled detective, carrying the traits i earlier mentioned. here are a few pictures i found which more or less represent the kind of look i would like for the detective. like i said, these are yet to be discussed with alex and shee may want a more realistic kind of character.

Old house. Orphan. Flashbacks. Memento meets Da Vinci Code. Mystery.

 This is a target market mood board.
It shows all the different things that our target audience might like. This is going to help us in knowing what our target audience likes.

having spoken to my teachers about the narratives that me and Alex have discussed, most have told me that despite stop motion and after effects etc. would be great for an abstract style, the practicality of creating a project like this would be much more difficult and require much more skill to create with any success. It looks like the best option to take is the idea we both liked about the detective in the "who done it?" situation. for this i am going to start creating a feasibility assessment for locations, props, characters etc.