Analysis
2:40- 3:40 Josh highlights the point that we may be straying off thriller grounds and the the idea sounds quite childish because of the 'evil' headmaster, after listening to this as a group we decided that to keep our film as 'Thriller' like as possible we had to ensure that we stuck to as many of the thriller conventions we chose to use as we could. Josh's second point on the childish, 'evil' headmaster idea was later addressed by Sam and Adam at 4:10 - 4:40. During this, Josh also complimented us on our conventions we had challenged; we are hoping this can make our film more unique and appealing to the audience.
4:40 - 5:36 Sam Beckett questioned us on our timing of our film, asking whether or not we would be able to fit enough important information into a 2 minute film. Lee told Sam of our plan to use the first minute to establish the school and also show that the female teacher is new and then use the second minute to show that the children are not as normal as was first thought, we believe we can make the first 2 minutes of our film look believable. 5:36 - 6:15 Jack gave us good inspiration with his advice on using 'nice' music while the children and head teacher are normal and using dark and suspicious music when they are in their trance-like state, this sound would be non-digetic as Jack pointed out and would really reflect the emotions we are trying to create in these first 2 minutes.
6:30 - 7:10 Matt developed on one of lee's previous ideas of how to show that the female psychology teacher was new, lee said we could show the teacher talking to another teacher about her first day to show that she was new, but matt advised us that we could show her talking to the head teacher who would be pleasant and sociable, this was good advice from matt as it created a more realistic plot, to show how the teacher was new and how it shows the headteacher to be nice under normal circumstances, we have planned to use Matt's idea in our final film.
