Planning

Today we started he planning for our film. We want to make a psychological thriller and use a child as the main character. Our character is a little girl who has been adopted. She has got schizophrenia and hears voices but her adoptive parents don't know it yet. These voices try and convince her to harm people that try to get close to her. We are doing a discrete opening, here are some of the ideas for the shots:
- Her holding hands with her parents and walking down the street. 4 sec
- Innocent face. 5 sec
- Holding the teddy bear. 3 sec
- Swing chains. 3 sec
- Children playing. 5 sec
- Her sitting on the swing. 3 sec
- Ripped teddy bear. 3 sec
- Adoption papers stamped. 4 sec
- Her cutting out images that reflect her mental instability and sticking in a scrapbook.  (More than one shot - 10 sec)
- Trees. 3 sec
- Changing channels really fast. (3 shots - remote control 3 sec, face 3 sec, tv 3 sec) - 9 sec
- Destroying children's drawing. 3 sec
- Mary go round really fast. 5 sec (split it)
- Shoes in line, father, mother and child. (3 shots - 3 sec each)
- Shower on with blood. 4 sec (Shower flicks)
- Arms cut. 2 sec
- Hands on fence. 4 sec
- Clock. 2 sec
- Toys. 3 sec
- Playground toys (without kids) - (various shots, 3-4 sec each)
- Girl grabbing another child. 3 sec
- Girl smiling in an evil way, 4 sec
- Close up on her eyes. 3 sec
- Girl painting/drawing smiling (2 shots, girl, the evil picture). 6 sec
- Whispering in the corner. 3-4 sec
- Writing on the mirror. 10 sec
118 seconds in total.
Our mainly inspiration is the psychological thriller 'Orphan'. Here are some shots we are considering to 'copy':