Basic story idea continued...

We begun to see the film starting with the vinyl player being turned on, the needle coming down the music plaing and kicking in to a fast upbeat 60s tempo to which the character could get dressed too. The Kinks All Day and all of the Night, seemed a good fast song to have someone getting ready too. We made a list of things we definately wanted to see in the dressing stage too make sure we got them in there.

• smoking cigarettes



• loading many packets of cigarettes into pockets in coat in trousers



• applying eyeliner plus other makeup



• trying many a pen on his mantel piece before chucking them away for not working.



• the vinyl player spinning around



• the vinyl player being turned on



• ongoing shots of objects lying around the bedroom



• shot of a girl laying under the quilt in his bed (on his mattress)



• him pulling money from wallet and chucking it on her



• biking to work – up hills through countryside falling into roadside



• snorting a line of cocaine (substituted of course)



• dressing eccentrically



• turning up at a school building and us finding out he is actually a teacher

We wanted to give the character a name which sounded 60s and had references to bands/events from the decade. (The character process became more important than the storyline at this part as we needed the character to make the scene and too make the audience not like his attitude but also love him, this needing to be acheived in two minutes. Blackwell came to us first. Just as a sort of 60′s sounding name really. No real cultural or historical references. Tommy however came to use from inspiration of The Who’s infamous Tommy the movie, a film we both hate more than anything from anywhere…but which has massive cultural reference to the 60′s. The other names in the piece have been from famous musicians; Roger Daltry, Mick Jagger etc. who we are both inspired by, and which have been moulded together to create new names. Another name was taking from someones Mums maiden name, who was conceived by a student and her English Teacher. Something we thought extremely relevent to our own protoganist.

Above is the first design of how we thought we could use the multiple clip idea in our piece. Not sure if we even could do this we were ready to cut down most of the shots we wanted to film to be able to fit it into one parellel timeline, only one clip showing at a time like any normal person would do.