Putting Ideas Together..

It was important from the very beginning to start getting some ideas together about what kind of film we wanted.
to start with we came up with a very loose, rough outline of a story. We came up with a character to go in this story. We gave him a character profile to get an idea of what he would be like. We also tried out having the same story line with a different character. For instance a woman instead of a man or someone younger than the age we'd originally planned. We did this to see how it would change the story but also to see how it would change how the audience would view the story, or sympathise differently with the main character. We decided to do character profiles of the man and the woman. After putting down a few ideas of what they'd be like, we decided we preferred the woman character, and as it's important to like the character you want to use, we thought she might make our film more warm and colourful.
So now we had our main character, it was time to make our rough concept into an actual story.
We wrote a background story, which wouldn't be seen in our film, about where she came from and what her upbringing was like. Then after we knew lots about her we moved on to what we would like to show through our film and what was important to get over to the audience.
By the end we had a basic story and an idea of what we wanted to get across to the audience.