Lily's Foundation blog: Context

Tuesday 25th Jan 2021

Character names

In todays lesson we were brainstorming name ideas for the characters and what impact they will have on the entire plot. All of us decided that the names would need to to feel connected to their characters so we took a while brainstorming names. Doug like to use initials for inspiration. For instance he referred to the male as C.K as he thought that his character represented 'Captain Kirk." I spent lots of my time thinking of many film and tv characters to create inspiration for the female protagonist. I liked the surname Sheridan which I thought of from the tv program Normal People and Mumma Mia. I then thought that her first name should be Cassie due to my imagination thinking that she would be blonde and Cassie from skins is blonde. Doug chose the name Thomas C which I really liked and it also can be abriviated to T,C.

Male protagonist: C.K, Ozzie, Oz, Thomas, T,C

Female protagonist ideas: Cassie Sheridan

Music ideas

We decided that we wanted the music to be parallel to some parts of the action on screen but as we we're pretending that the soundtrack is what he is listening to on his headphones, we wanted it to be a little bit contrapuntal. Mia and I spent some time over a few lessons looking at music, we found a song called Become a Mountain by Dan Deacon. We liked this song as it has a build up and a section of fast place music. We thought the fast part would work well for the studio scenes when he is having flashbacks. Doug also did some research and found the song Its a Trip by JoyWave. We all liked this song as it could easily be a song Thomas would be listening too and it also contains a fast pace section.

music ideas: joy wave- its a trip

- I chose this song due to the amazing build up and chorus. We want to show the flashbacks when the climax of the song is happening. This will be very memorable for the audience as I hope that it very romantic and emotive.

Joywave- it s a trip

music ideas: Babushka - Kate Bush

- I really liked this song as both the genre of the song and the lyrics of the song match what we want our opening title sequence to include. I think that this song matches the thriller genre we want to portray to the audience. Kate Bush is also a very famous singer so using a popular song will gain more attention and it will be rememberable.

Babushka - Kate Bush