My group and I pitched our ideas to individuals that work in
the industry in order to gain critical feedback. Film score composer, Callum Macintosh and documentary cinematographer and editor at the BBC, Niraj Chag gave us feedback such as that our storyline is too
complicated as our storyline is a student being randomly picked to be kidnapped
as one of mad doctors experiments which took place in japan, however this is
not shown but the kidnapping is suggestive as the protagonist shows signs of
struggle when waking up in a lab room through the shots of the flashback. The
present narrative then takes place in the UK, where the protagonist is free
from the chaos but the time and day from the escape is not revealed, as we want
our film open to interpretation, having an active audience think out our film.
What Callum and Niraj did not understand was how the film background is based in
japan but the present in the UK, as it is like the narrative has something to
do with teleportation.
Another point that was mentioned was that the narrative has
no climax or build up, which we also agree with. We took these feedback into
account and then as a group had another meeting. As a group we decided to clear
up the narrative, we went through multiples of stages of changing our story
completely until coming back to the original, and have only one female actor.
The story line is based on illusions so to create a build up we decided to have
the actor play both protagonist and antagonist, only to reveal the antagonists
face at the very end, arresting enigma. We also decided to not include any
Japanese background to it as it was too ambitious giving the fact we had no Japanese
actors but we still continued to use Japanese horror conventions as part of our
research as we wanted to challenge conventions.
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