Pitching New Idea to the Film Department

Feedback
In general, we received very positive feedback. They liked the idea as a whole, especially the answer machine soundtrack, and the one-take tracking shot. However, although they thought the long path tracking shot would look beautiful, they said it would be incredibly difficult to pull off and take up a very long chunk of our shoot time. They suggested we should attempt it with the best image stabilisation equipment we could find, as long as we had a backup story board ready if we decided to shoot the house mise-en-scene in a sequence. As well as this, they notified my group and I of how much work and preparation we would have to put in before the actual shoot day, in order to keep the continuity and complete the shoot within a single day. This included all the family photos in frames, broken mirror, pots of paint, and all the blood splattered white dust sheets. This meant on the day we could turn up to the shoot location, just line the house with everything we had made so we could start shooting as soon as possible.

Evaluation
Once they gave us their opinion, they mentioned the key aspects of the idea that needed to be decided and completed by the end of the term:

1) Location: They suggested a specific teacher's house due to its necessary spaciousness, but they found it hard to think of any other options.
2) Cast: We needed to cast the main victim, as well as the whole family, the girlfriend, the boss, the dentist receptionist and the best mate very soon in order to take the photos and write and record the answer machine messages.
3) List of mise-en-scene: including all the specific family/childhood photos, the paint pots / brushes / redecoration equipment / white dust sheets, broken mirror, fake blood/red paint, answer machine, aged mouldy fruit bowl, and other signals for passing time.
4) Write scripts for all the answer machine messages and decide order and times of day/week.

Although, the target my group and I have set our selves will be very challenging, both the teachers and my group think we can pull it off in quality fashion. I would agree.

Decided Film Plot

At the funeral, girlfriend overly sad at funeral, afterwards she is really happy, shopping, living life normally. Friend of dead boy, tries to prove that the girlfriend killed his friend. He finds LED light in glove box of girlfriends car, sees blood everywhere. He then realises that the answer phone messages she left was to make sure she wasn't implicated.