6/11/09

We met with the Suited and Booted film company to learn about what they do and what they are about, I also looked on some of the websites they suggested to get a background knowledge of their role. I learnt that they help film companies with making and shooting film locations in and around Bath, they handle and deal with small and major companies to allow filming to go on in Bat not only for films, but documentaries and television shows too. We also met with someone from the Bath film company called Sara, she was very helpful and insipring in showing us the opportunity we had to create an individual and expressive film. We were given our film briefs, the idea was to work in groups producing a film 3 minutes long promoting Bath in a gothic way, we had a fairly large scope in what we could choose as subject matter which meant every groups film would be different. We were then split into our groups to mindmap and discuss possible ideas. We came up with quite a few possible ideas these were all gothic related and we wrote these ideas down into a mindmap. We thought of different themes such as Shakespeare, love, romance, and tragedy, there were also ideas like madness and insanity and it was quite challenging to keep in mind how we were going to promote Bath as a city. I wanted to do a love story similar to Romeo and Juliet so I proposed this idea to the group, they agreed this was a good idea but each added there own aspects such as the theme of an overdose, madness and flashbacks. Our favourite idea and the one we decided to go with was a tragic love story set in Bath with ongoing themes of madness, insanity and eventual suicide. We also looked at the character Ophelia by Shakespeare and also a famous painting, this seemed like a good starting point to focus on.