Consent from Actors

Change in Actors

As we were planning, we decided that we are actually going to use Rasharn, originally the attacker, as Alexia's love interest instead of Daniel. This is because he is more available to film with as he goes to the same school and we also decided that as a plot twist in our film, Alexia's love interest was part of the organisation that is hunting them, however he accidentally falls in love with her. We felt that this would also be more suitable as he does Drama A Level so would be good at developing this character to show the struggle he faces between his love for Alexia and his contract with the organisation. We will also be sticking with the name Arby as it is more unusual and supports the slightly futuristic element we've chosen to portray in our storyline.

New Character Profile:

Name: Arby
Age: 18
Job: Works for the organisation that is hunting 'The Others'
Interests: Reading books, listening to music
Birthday: 15th December
Home Life: Lives alone in a small apartment in London
Height: 5ft 11"

Arby is Alexia's love interest in the film. He comes across as fairly shy and caring however faces his own struggles - the torment of loving Alexia but his obligation to the organisation meant to be hunting her. This develops his character further as he can be brave but it also allows the audience to like and dislike him throughout the film, creating more tension.

We decided to use Rasharn for this character as he does drama a level alongside Mia (Alexia) therefore is used to working with her and as they are good friends it won't be awkward when filming. As he does drama he is a good actor therefore can make the character more realistic and understands the need for commitment as this task is important to our coursework.

Ideas For Names

This is a brainstorm of ideas for names that we came up with for our film:

These were some of the names we came up with, however we found that some of these names had already been used (highlighted) for other films using IMDB (source:http://www.imdb.com/) therefore we couldn't use these for our film. This narrowed our choice to three:

• Alexia - the name of our protagonist
• Trial - introduces the idea of the fact that they were an experiment
• We are the Others - highlights some of the characters and the idea of unity 

As we didn't mind using any one of these names we decided to ask a sample of our target audience to see which they preferred.

This is a bar graph based on our results. We asked 20 people altogether and the most liked name was 'We are the Others' therefore we decided to use this for our film. 

Plot Synopsis

Alexia Hastings (our female protagonist) was genetically engineered by a non-government run organisation. She was adopted at the age of five and does not remember much from before this time apart from fragmented images and memories in her dreams. However, she was not the only one like this. Alexia has always felt different growing up as she can do things that other people can't as she has heightened senses - she's stronger, faster and smarter compared to other humans and can sometimes hear voices in her head which are the 'Others'.

The story of our film follows the journey of Alexia to find the 'Others' to find a place where she belongs. As we wanted to create an element of danger and tension within the film, the 'Others' are being hunted as they are a supposed threat, however as we thought this may lead more into the action genre, we decided to follow the journey of Alexia finding the 'Others' as this narrative sticks to the drama genre however the film could be left on a cliffhanger which would leave it open for a sequel.

Throughout her journey, Alexia also meets Charlie, whom becomes her love interest in the film. He is quite introverted yet intelligent however her meeting him, she realises puts him also in danger. This creates another struggle for the character internally as she loves him but he is safer without her therefore this is another conflict she faces. For the character development of Charlie, we wanted to portray him as shy and fairly 'geeky' to begin with and develop this throughout the film so he becomes brave and 'hero' like to surprise the audience as you wouldn't expect this.

The way in which Alexia finds out about the 'Others' is through Kaya, a waitress she meets who is like her. Kaya is slightly older and knows much more about their background and informs Alexia of the danger they are now in. This is another cause of her internal conflict as she wants to try and be normal and find her identity, protect Charlie as well as find the 'Others' in the hope it will allow her to find herself.

Ideas for Locations

After discussion on potential shots and scenes we wanted in the trailer, we came up with ideas of possible locations.As a trailer needs to include multiple locations to show a progression of time, we brainstormed ideas of the scenes we wanted and the locations we wanted them in so we had a basis to research whether we could access similar locations.




These are some images I found that resemble some locations we thought of. Some of these locations such as a hospital we know we won't have access to however we have formed ideas of how we could create a similar setting or shots that resemble different aspects of a hospital location such as the bright lights on the ceiling we found we had similar ones in one of out I.C.T rooms at school so could use this instead. Also the rooftop idea may be difficult to find however after discussion we decided we could accomplish this by using a car park rooftop however we may need to film early in the morning so it would be empty.

"The Others"

"The Others" are genetically engineered characters in our film. I have created a mind map to explain these characters further as they are a key element to our storyline and genre as well as our protagonist being classified as one of them also.

Possible Issues with Actors

When we chose our actors we needed to consider the issues that may arise. Rasharn, Beth and Mia all do drama therefore may have time taken up in rehearsals so we would need to consider when they are all available. All the actors are also doing A Levels therefore may not have a lot of free time due to the demand of these subjects. Mia and Beth also have part-time jobs so we would need to try and find a time when they're not working as well. Also because Daniel goes to a different school this may be tricky if we filmed a scene at school for example, and he may have different times for the school day so we would need to find a time when he was available also. However, to overcome this we will plan in advance when we want to film and ask the actors we need if they are free on that day and if not then change our filming schedule slightly on a day to when they are available. This shouldn't be too much of a problem as we see the actors regularly so will be able to keep the up to date with when we need them and when they are available to film.