Mind map/Character sheet
Fish moodboard
Today me and my colleague Alex, had another meeting where we again developed our ideas for our Final major project. We wanted to start by looking into the character of the Fishman himself and we started to think about things like age and characteristics, however as the project needs to be as low budget as possible we quickly realised we needed to have an idea of what the plot was going to be and what locations we had access to and then develop the character around those. The main location we have access to is the university buildings are their surroundings and so we discussed the idea of our character being a student. We then started to put together the start of a plot, we decided that our character would be a child of the fishmen God Dagon and that he has been sent to earth in order to take souls to feed the Gods other young, this is taken almost directly from the Lovecraft book The shadow over innsmouth of which are film is based around. It didn't really feel like having the character as a student would work with this plot so we thought about other University Jobs that he could be doing. We then settled on him being a teacher we felt it wouldn't need explaining as to how he is a teacher and we could leave this open to audience interpretation. Having this as his career allows us to keep our locations within the university buildings and grounds while still making sense, we then thought what subject would he teach? We considered him being a quite dull maths teacher and then we have a character whose personality fits their job however we didn't think it was as funny as our other idea. Our other idea and the idea we have pretty much settled on is that our character is going to be a drama teacher which we feel will be quite meta and potentially funny. The further we tried to develop the character the harder it became and we again realised we needed to have much more of a developed plot before we could develop the character further as we need to think about how he would fit into this world. We were stuck for ideas for quite a while and toyed with the idea of making the film more serious and more like a drama. I eventually had the idea of making the God in the film like venom in the sense that he is constantly in the fishmans head (through voice over) telling him all the evil things he should do but the fishman at this point has been on earth for a while and has started to develop human like morals. This leads as it does in venom to the his moral voice and the Gods voice having this constant battle in his head and this is where the comedy will come from. We now are looking to start writing some test scripts and doing some test shoots to see if we think this idea works.
As a side note I have also been in contact with an actor that I worked with on a previous project and he has said he is interested in helping out again. Having an actor will allow us to send our ideas and the actors measurements down to media make up to get an idea of costs.
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