General outline for our plot and thoughts regarding the film (Jamie Simmons)

We have discussed what the plot for our film is going to be and have come to the conclusion that we will go with a story following a man who awakes in the morning with an almighty hangover and over the course of the film attempts to piece together the events of his previous night. This concept will allow us to use a wide variety of techniques that will both tick all the boxes for the marking system and help us produce a good quality film.

One particularly difficult aspect of editing we are going to include in our film is the use of flashbacks. We attempted to use flashbacks last year and if the truth be told it could have worked better. This was mainly because we didn't put enough research into how we were going to do them and therefore we struggled to find a way to use the editing equipment to pull it off convincingly and the final product looked quite amateur. This time around, we will research into the best way in which to make the transitions between the present and what happened the night before as convincing as possible.

I've looked around for good examples of effective flashback sequences and I thought Lost is a very good example of how it should be done. Although it isn't a film as such I still think the way in which they execute their flashbacks could easily be transferred into a film. I will continue research into techniques.

I also think it is going to be particularly important to keep the tone of the film as serious as possible as it could be percieved as slightly ludicrous if we are not careful. I think that with the film we are making we should be aiming to target a younger audience. Perhaps 16-24 year olds as this demographic could relate to the character waking up and not remembering what happened the night before.

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