Brainstorming Story Plots

Now that we had decided which our genre and theme, it was now necessary to brainstorm story plots for our film. As suggested in a previous post, we initially began suggesting quite far-fetched ideas for our film but couldn't use them due to our constraints and its effectiveness. 

Since then, our theory lessons we have had in class proved to be very useful as we considered many narrative theories and audience theories when drafting some ideas for story plots. However, coming up with fresh and brand new ideas for story plots was monotonous because all our suggestion seemed liked they have been done before and can easily be associated with another film. For example, our previous example about a police officer having special abilities is quite similar to a film named Limitless. Eventually, we did make a breakthrough. 

We briefly touched upon what kind of locations to use and thought it would be sensible to film in school as its the most accessible place we have which is very convenient. One thought created another and we ended up coming with the idea to base a story around a student and a teacher. Then when considering the theme, revenge, we thought that the film could be about a teacher seeking revenge against his student after the distress he has given him. This seemed quite enthralling so we drafted out specific details of this and mapped out the plot. 



Our next post will be the film synopsis we came up with.