Week Five

Starting to do the story board. I gave up on the storyboard, and decided that listening to the song more and thinking about what imagery came to mind was better to help me visualise where I want my film to go, and how it will look. I'm more of a writer than a drawer anyway.
I'm not sure how much I want to make it connect with the audience, whether to just tell a relatively simple story, or to try to make it really relatable and emotional.
I came up with the idea today to tell the story from the perspective of a girl who survived the bomb. I came to this idea by investigating what the lyric "the hair on my head came out, and fell on the ground."
I discovered that this is a side effect to radiation poisoning common after atomic bombs explode. This has made me think that I should research more about the fallout after nuclear weapons, it might help add some realism, and make the film more believable and relatable.
After researching the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (which appear to be the only times an atomic bomb has been dropped on a city) I've found out that 90% of the buildings were destroyed and between 70,000-90,000 people died (at least). But the lyric "I heard about sixty-nine hundred people have died." suggests that this bomb would be at least 10 times smaller. Which probably means a lot less rubble, so I think that means that I can still film deserted city streets without it looking too out of place.
I've finished the synopsis and script, but I only really consider then drafts because I'm not 100% happy with them. The synopsis was quite hard to write because I've never really read any before and I don't know how to write one, but also because I only planned the entire story line of my film very recently.
The script has been difficult to write too because of how long it took to think of ideas too, but I'm quite happy with how it has turned out (though I will most likely revise a lot of it).
Five weeks down, fourteen to go.