Thursday 30 January 2014

Captive - Brainstorm

In Friday's lesson we produced a brainstorm on the content for our title sequence of 'Captive'. The sections we brainstormed were:
  • Cast
  • Sounds
  • Distributor
  • Production Company
  • Style
  • Camerawork
  • Genre
  • Editing 
  • Text on screen
  • Narrative
  • Setting
  • Make up and props
The brainstorm itself was based on 'STINCS', these include: Setting,Theme, Iconography, Narrative, Characters and Style. We then as group developed from these starting points based on what we thought should be included in our title sequence which brought us more together into blending our individual ideas into one which I believe has gave us a clearer outlook on how to carry on.

After we finished with the brainstorm, we focused into doing a 'Medical treatment Vs Kidnapping', so objects that were used in both could be shown in the title sequence to not give the ending of the film away but create a uncomfortable feel for the audience. The first we looked at needles/injections that link to the medical area by treating a patient or can be used for self harm/drug taking. Also we looked at the use of handcuffs, as these can be used to arrest people or can be used for chaining someone to a chair etc. In addition we looked at rope,bottles and knives.
Once we decided to investigate medical and kidnapping objects they can be used for the same situation, as a group we wanted to look into how patients with mental health issues such as schizophrenia, used to be treated in the 1960's as this was when the most disturbing treatments were taken place and not much was understood about the illnesses in the asylum's. We researched what treatments and experiments were taken place on patients we found out one experiment was called lobotomy.
  
Lobotomy is a thin hammer entered through the back of each eye socket into the brain then wiggled in a stirring motion, often taking just a few minutes under local anesthesia.It was  on patients with obsessive behavior, which they repeated time and again and it was used to treat certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or clinical depression. 

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