Second pitch ideas

These are the ideas of which we started to form the basis of our second pitch around. The planning allowed us to know which points we would need to highlight in our presentation and which aspects need further development before they will be convincing as an idea.

Detailed idea

Our story revolves around the relationship between a young boy and his favourite inanimate object, his Lego. The boy has no friends and spends almost all of his time in his bedroom playing with his lego, constructing his own fantasy world in order to gain back some of the control over his life that has been removed by his control freak of a mother. The boy's lack of friends and social life has very little to do with his lack of ability to make friends or a lack of people wishing to be his friend, he simply prefers the controllable relationship that he has with his Lego.

At the beginning of the story the young boy is a stereotypical 'Mummy's boy' who always does his mother's bidding and adheres to her wishes and demands no matter how controlling or unreasonable they may seem. This is reflected in the cleanliness and tidiness of his room and the pristine condition of his clothes and hair at all times, despite this being far from the norm when it comes to a young boy. The mother clearly adores her young son and still talks to him as if he were a toddler suggesting that she has a real fear of him growing up, perhaps explaining her need to be a control freak when it comes to parenting and disciplining the boy. Although the mother will not be shown much throughout the story her influences will be clear; whether it is through the boy's homework being done early instead of on time or a plate of food being sat in the boy's room 'just in case he gets hungry'.

Throughout the story the boy will be shown to be slowly growing tired of his mother's control of him and small acts of rebellion will begin to occur. Initially it will only be something small such as him leaving his bed unmade once he gets up in the morning, however, these acts of rebellion will soon get larger and more and more obvious. His emotions during this turbulent time will be shown through the world that he constructs using his Lego until he eventually snaps and, as the ultimate act of rebellion, he destroys all that he has constructed never to touch it again.

The act of him destructing everything that he has made shows him finally destroying the control which his mother has had over him up to that stage in his life. It will be at this stage that the story will end, leaving the audience on a cliff hanger but also suggesting that the boy will be leading a life free of his  mother's obsessive control from this point onwards.

Second pitch powerpoint

We decided to create a powerpoint in order to be able to convey our idea more clearly and more professionally during our second pitch. We looked in detail at the perspective from which the film will be shot, the set, cinematography, costume and music in order to show how we intend to convey our story.

In-depth pitch evaluation

Further decision making on child's object

Inanimate object ideas

I started to look at ideas for what object the young boy could develop a relationship with. I have started off by looking at generic toys and objects often associated with and enjoyed by young boys and the variety that there is available. Most of these objects/toys are easily accessible meaning that problems with accessing this prop should not be an issue. At the moment I am liking the idea of using either a fire truck, lego or teddy bear as the object. I will look at those objects in more detail in a later post.

Location ideas

As I started to think of possible locations for my story to be placed, I started to think of how the boy would be spending so much time in his bedroom (due to his lack of social life). This led me to start to look further into the different styles of young boys' bedrooms as I do not have much experience in this area myself. Due to the boy's control freak mother, I imagine that his room would be relatively bare and immaculately clean and ordered. I had a brief thought of the boy having an extremely messy and cluttered room as an act of rebellion towards his mother, however, I soon dismissed this as, at the boy's age, it is likely that his mother would take charge of keeping the room neat and tidy.

The main colour schemes that I identified in the bedrooms that I researched were blue of all shades, cream, orange, yellow, red and white; expectedly steering away from the generic 'girly' colours like pink and purple etc.