Second Meeting

In the second meeting with the team we started coming up with concepts for a narrative idea. We started of all agreeing seeing as we were only allowed limited amounts of characters we would have a strong lead or 2 lead roles that would dictate the piece. We then decided that the 2 main characters would know each other and started coming up with their back stories as well as what they are like as a person and their names...

Lola - Mid 20's, she stands up for herself as well as other people and is a confident well of person that also cared for others but would sometimes overlook the small maters in life.

Larry - Again Mid 20's has a full time job but then has a normal life, goes to the guy a few times a week. He likes his job but isn't hugely confident and has to rely on Lola for support and help on his issues.

Both are good friends but have no romantic link and both like playing around having a laugh if its sarcastic or not and tend to do most things together even tho they do not live together.

As far as the story goes the group was quite keen with a political approach. I'm not hugely into politics but was more than happy to find some research and look into the recent issues between Russia and Ukraine as this is what the group was interested in and talking about. We wanted this story to be in the background of our film as sort of the near future and almost as if its the start of the 3rd world war or something to that existent was going to happen and we could have subtle hints from the two main characters about it as well as the story going on.

Developing the story we ended up deciding the event that would occur between the 2 characters and that Larry would be fired from his job due to expenses and on occasion steeling the odd silly thing such as a pencil for which Lola had asked for. So in order of scenes, scene one would consist of before the office scene where Larry would get fired and would occur in Lola's house where Larry had gone to she how she was and have a joke around. After this scene would be the office scene where Larry looses his job and the 3rd scene would be back in Lola's house and Lola would have to comfort Larry sticking up for him. The final scene would then develop into the park hill location and be talking about the future as well as the news of Russia and Ukraine.

We then decided that the best way to get the Russia and Ukraine situation across to the audience would be through a news report. Seeing as we were only allowed 3 locations what we decided as a team that we could do was to film the news report and the put it on a disk to the be played on the television in Lola's house.