6-Minute Challenge - Reflection of Ideas

6 Minute Challenge Evaluation
In our groups, we were asked to carry out a '6-Minute Challenge', in which we had to come up with an idea for a film/title sequence of a film in a limited amount of time. At first, we were asked to pick, at random, a location and a prop, in order to give us inspiration for the story plot. We managed to pick out 'A department store in a shopping mall' as our location and 'a letter' as our prop. From this, we then used the 'Random article' feature on Wikipedia to randomly generate a name for our film. We came up with "If I Had Eyes". We then managed to create a horror-thriller hybrid idea, which we then wrote down in our overview.
After writing the overview, we then created a shot list, followed by a storyboard, which then allowed us to have a good idea to pitch to the class.

The overview we came up with was:
'A group of friends find a letter lying on the floor or a stand in a department store. They all open it, and see that it has a threatening message inside. Because of this, they all become a little freaked out by it and decide to rip it up. The next day they all receive the same letter, and then they begin to be take one by one. They begin to realise that something is happening and try to work it out. Everyone that is take is chained up in a dark room and are left blind as they either have severe damage to their eyes or have had their eyes gauged out.'

At first, it was a little challenging to stick with an idea as we were coming up with a fair few ideas, but were unsure as to which one to choose. I think that our idea was very successful as, if carried out correctly, can seem very dark and chilling.

This task really did help as manage to use our creativity using limited ideas, and aided to expand our creative aspect and perspective as a group. I think that this task was very helpful.