Rationale
What is a rationale?
A rationale is making sense of your idea. It is to do with logic and reason. So when making a rationale for a film, it is a short written piece containing context and why your idea is what it is. It's making sense or your idea. Why your ideas is what it is could be due to the genre or limitations such as budget or time.
My rationale
As said before, a rationale is making sense of your idea and our idea is to make an opening of a thriller. After looking at our budget , we've decided to film ours in a science lab. This is due to limitations as we do not having the funding nor the budget to rent out a scientific lab to film so we will use the science lab at school. Are access to the science lab is also why we have chosen to film a medical thriller. Due to these limitations, we now chosen to have our film based around the spread of a disease and the search for a cure as one convention of medical thrillers is that they're based and or showcase exotic places and the affect of a disease whereas we'll show that just within our school due to budget limitations but will also be easier in terms of controlling the location. Laila will be storyboard as we feel as if her expertise in art will help depict how our film will go in picture form. Carly will be dealing with makeup as again, we feel as if her expertise and experience with makeup and special effects on people is best for this.
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Proposal
What is a proposal?
A proposal and in particular a film proposal is a textual or visual representation of your film, the vision of your film and how you want the end product to result as. A film proposal can also be used to attract film investors
My proposal
For this film making project we are going to produce a thriller film opening. The film opening will last approximately two minutes long. To create this, our group consisting of me, Laila, Matty, Jack, Annie, Carly, Fran, Jai and Kai will film in the science lab. The genre in particular is a medical thriller and the plot for our opening will be Laila mixing together different liquids and then injecting Matty with this mysterious substance into his arm which will cause him to blister and bleed while he is tied down. To show that Carly will use her special effects experience to make it seem as if he is bleeding. There will then be shots of Laila leaving and then walking away from the lab. So as I've said, Matty and Laila will be the main characters with Carly doing the makeup/special effects. The rest of us will be filming/editing. Our target audience for this film opening is will be for both gender between the ages of 17 - 30. In terms of props, we will use 10 beakers, 2 Bunsen burners, a tripod and hazard stickers. Laila will then also be wearing a lab coat and goggles. To conclude we, as a group are aiming to produce a well made thriller opening meeting and playing on the conventions of a medical thriller opening.