Drama Project – Idea and Inspiration

     Our drama piece is to be called “A View”. It will be a 5 minute drama piece featuring one character and would consist of no dialogue, which follows the journey of their personal progression in a single space whilst suffering from agoraphobia which is the fear of being outside. We hope to create a true and realistic account of the fear from the sufferers perspective and therefore to show this we will film the entirely in the space of the room in which the character feels trapped in. As the film runs through, we hope by using the image and sound to create a feeling for the viewer to have claustrophobia to really sympathise with the character.

     The “journey” will be shown in a simplistic way as the film will focus on the inner progression the character has to overcome a part of his fear. The character will be a male adult (early twenties) who will visit the location more than once before the shoot to get a good idea of the space and a feel for the character.

     Since there is no dialogue and we will be dealing with quite a serious character, we will have to carefully plan out how we will design the sound and edit it within post-production to set the scene. With this and our set design, this will narrate our film and form its structure.   

     With discussing this with Oliver and Hannah we have decided to add a lot of outside sounds into the room so that the sense of the character being obsessed with the outside world is more powerful for the viewer.

     Our inspiration for this is the film Apocalypse Now as the opening to the film has a man in a hotel room who is mentally scarred by the Vietnam War and all he can hear is sounds from the jungle and sounds such as helicopters.