PLANNING: INITIAL DEVELOPMENT

Before we began the planning for our production, we established the different stages of planning. The stages include; brainstorming/mind mapping, finding our Topline and Big Question, making a story board and making a shot list. 

Once we understood these stages we began brainstorming and mind mapping our production. We decided to base our production on a recent BBC news article about a truck that was found in Essex, UK, where there were 39 bodies found dead in it. The Police suspected it was Human Trafficking and later that month caught the people involved. Furthermore, we wanted to make it like a police versus organised crime type film, following our chosen genre of crime/thriller.

This mind map shows the different ideas we came up with for all areas of the production. We wrote down ideas that are associated with the topic of Human Trafficking and the genre of our film. We put our plot into stages so that it was easier for us to know what to put in our storyboard.