Within
our group we came up with a few ideas as to what we could do, where we could
film and who our actors could be. We came up with a couple of ideas and
developed them into one to come up with a stronger idea.
One idea we had would be to film a wife and husband writing letters to each other and at the end she would receive a deceased notice.
The wife would be at home sat at her kitchen table writing a letter and seeing flashbacks of her and her husband together before he went off to war. The flashbacks will be them saying goodbye to each other at the railway station as he gets onto the train.
We would then film the husband writing letters to his wife whilst he is on the train. It's going to be about how much he misses her already and how scared he is.
We will then film him in a forest area writing another letter to his wife saying how he is really afraid and is scared of everything and he's off to fight again on the front line. It will then cut to the wife receiving a deceased note.
https://www.museumwales.ac.uk/2239/
http://www.breconmountainrailway.co.uk/
The image above is of Brecon
Railway. We where thinking of filming there with the family to show them saying
goodbye to the husband who is off to war. This will give the emotional feeling and
draw peoples attention in as it is a young boy who is leaving his family and
fight on the front line. Also this is a steam train railway so this would work as they didn't have the modern trains that we have today and they would of been a steam train similar to what is at Brecon.
This is an image of St Fagans. We thought
about thinking here to show the family life at home. The working mother who
cleans the house while her family are at war fighting. We would also film the
mother writing her letter to her son who would be at war.
St Fagans have this row of houses show in
the image below. each house goes up era by era showing what they where like
back then. Another reason for us wanting to film here was because it would give
us the chance to set the scene. Be able to film in an 'original' house of what
they would look lie back then rather than filming in a house of today. It
wouldn't give the same effect and feel as it would if we filmed in todays
house.
Another location we would film at would be my house. We would use the forest area that I have in my garden. This is where we would film the husband writing his letter about how nervous and lonely he feels without his wife being there and saying how worried he is going to die and wont see his ver much loved wife again.
Final Idea
After thinking about the idea I didn't think it was appropriate for the target audience as I felt they wouldn't feel emotionally connected to it so I though about it. I came up with the idea to change it from wife and husband to mother and son. This way the so would be of a similar age to the target audience.
By changing the idea to mother and son I believe the target audience will be able to connect to it more as the son would be roughly the same age. They will be thinking about if that was them and how he must of felt being so young.
The idea is going to be that you see the mother and son writing letters to each other keeping them up to date on whats going on at home or at war. At the end you will see the mum receive the note to say that unfotunetly hes been killed in action. You also get to see her memories of him from when she said goodbye to him as he headed off to war.
