Unit 10

For this project, I decided to create a prologue for my FMP, which is going to be a dystopian crime drama with sci-fi elements.

Although that sounds complicated and perhaps somewhat convoluted, a clockwork orange happens to be the exact same thing and that film is insanely well known and praised (for good reason)

I decided to have this prologue represent the fact that the general populous no longer have much empathy and don’t care about things that don’t benefit them.

This is intended to be a reflection of current society, especially those who turn a blind eye to social injustices and planet-killing business practices.

This is shown by the fact that the person sees that the phone is not working properly, ignores the pleas for help (lack of compassion) and promptly throws the phone into the ocean (not caring about pollution)

Later (in my FMP) we will learn that the person on the other end of the phone is the titular main character, a detective who is tasked with solving a recent string of murders following new laws allowing governments to create robots that use civilians’ Internet data to uphold the law however they see fit.

As well as creating this prologue I have started to find statistics for the contextual analysis of my FMP and sources for the general inspiration of the project’s conception.

However, after creating said prologue, I feel as though it is all over the place and doesn’t really work. The look is too “student film” and I couldn’t think of a plausible direction for things to go in. As well as the footage captured is entirely off in terms of tone, to the point of being either laughable or just downright bad.

Although one could contribute this to the fact I didn’t write a script for this prologue, which leads us to the root of the problem, which is that I didn’t feel motivated to do so. With this realisation, I have decided to create something that I would actually enjoy making, in order to improve the production quality and sensibility of the project as a whole.

As a result of this, I have begun to make storyboards and write a script for a fantasy-style that I would much prefer to make and that would make a lot more sense. Below you can see some of the storyboards for the first scene: