Film Reflection 14th March

Today in film, we continued planning our movie.  After consideration, we decided to change the theme of the movie slightly from "The Consequences of Experimenting with Drugs" to a more twisting concept that the drug would at first enhance the person in question, before gradually injuring him and eventually killing him. We refined many of the details we had discussed, and began finalizing a list of recurring shots we would want to include in our movie:

• Apple being cut, first calmly into quarters with a knife, and later violently into random pieces with a cleaver
• Heart rate monitor, gradually slowing and stopping
• Chess game, which at first the Person wins, but he is gradually beaten by an unseen character who in the final shot of the film is revealed to not exist at all.
• Person working on math problems. At first he has trouble, but after taking the drug the problems are solved faster and faster. However, after the side-effects of the drug begin to appear, the film begins to reverse, showing him erasing his progress, until the page is empty again.
• Person reading a book. He reads faster and faster, eventually finishing it and putting it down. However, he opens it later, only to find that the pages of the book are blank.
• After about halfway through the film, the side-effects of the drug begin to kick in. This is shown by gritted teeth, spasming fingers, etc. This will be interspersed with the "bad" incarnation of each of the previous shots.

We have begun refining this into a shot list, and anticipate finishing our shooting by the end of this week.