Concept Refinement Chart

 

Luca Patarini

AICE Media Studies AS

Portfolio Project Concept Refinement

Fall 2020

CATEGORY	DETAILS
Film OR Magazine	Film
Genre	Horror
Target Audience (Be specific)	15- to 24-year-old and mostly male (horror enthusiasts)
What is your concept? (Be thorough & specific. Review the links on Blackboard)	Zach is an ordinary 16-year-old high schooler. He plays sports and is an A B student. Everything about his life is as normal as it gets. But what nobody knew was that Zach lives in an abusive household. Not having many close friends closed him off to expressing himself so he would take it out on drugs. Regularly Zach would go to a forest near his home to smoke, but on a certain night, his smoking hours didn’t go to plan. After smoking, he gets lightheaded and passes out on the forest floor and wakes up on an eerie bridge. While trying to find his way back home he is distorted and realizes that something is watching him. He goes through a series of PTSD attacks and Hallucinations of the past while trying to find his way back home, and when he starts recognizing where he is, he starts to feel sick as if he was going to throw up his own intestines. He then passes out due to the excruciating pain. Soon after he wakes up in the first place he passed out. He realized that it was all a trip and decides to act in himself to stop using drugs...
How did you conceive the idea for this concept?	Well... We went through a list consisting of Zach having some sort of problem or disability but decided that they would be challenging to incorporate with a horror film and decided on a drug abuse/abusive household concept. We wanted it to have an impact on something in the real world.
What do you believe is unique about your concept?	It brings attention to drug misuse and student/teen mental health.
Why do you believe this product will be of interest to your audience?	Since the main character is around the same age as the target audience, there will be a sense of personalization. Especially if the audience has gone through challenges like Zach's.
FEEDBACK RECEIVED FROM PEERS	Dead by daylight Sad ending instead Dies (maybe) Decision Trip to past and PTSD Bring up mom  Share pain

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Concept Refinement 

Last week we were assigned a pitch project where we would have to write a brief sketch of our film. This week we shared our pitches in front of the class, but we happened to end up presenting last and when finished we received feedback from our classmates on how to improve the idea for our film. The feedback I received for my film project was not what I was expecting, for example I was expecting a lot of judgement and ideas on how to change our project along with the story line. Instead we barely received any information and only had a sentence worth of feedback which we had to work around. The only way our project changed was the decision to kill off our character at the end of the story, we were not expecting this so now we must base our film off of the last minute decision at the end which we still have not decide altogether yet.