Film idea-Joe

Names-Dark room/Snapshot/Polaroid.

A college student buys a camera from a local store/ finds it somewhere and is a young photographer. He takes a photo of a flower in the ground and walks away. The camera pans from him and zooms into the flower with a pull focus and it reveals that the flower is gone without the protagonist knowing that it isn't there. He carries on with his day taking more photos. He goes home and takes a picture of his cat for it to again like the flower disappear without the main antagonist knowing again. He begins to take pictures of people with each time him either looking down at the camera or walking away with him being oblivious to the fact that the objects and people that he is photographing have gone. He goes to a darkroom to develop the photos he has taken, and he notices something off about each of the photos but carries on developing them anyway. He hears subtle screams and looks towards the photograph to notice that the expressions have changed from last time he looked at them. This begins to make him anxious and begins to question the camera that he bought earlier in the day. He takes a self portrait and there is a deafening silence and flash from the camera. The camera falls and smashes onto the floor. A polaroid comes out of the camera with the main protagonist on it.

Alternate end: The main protagonist pins up the photos in the dark room and leaves them to develop. The camera pans to the pinned up pictures showing that they are all moving similar to the paintings from harry potter. The protagonist leaves the dark room with his silhouette being the last shot with the door shutting and silencing out the screams. Jump shots could be used for the main protagonist as he walks out of the dark room to convey the warped view of the camera.

The film will be shot in black and white with subtle colours added in like the flash of the camera and the petals of the flower and cinematography will be the way that we subtly hint at the camera stealing its objects and people that it takes and the end minute or two will be the reveal that it actually takes them from reality into the camera. Editing will also be a large part of our film to convey certain parts of the film but to also go along side the subtle hints.

The genre will be a mystery thriller but with it only having a few thriller elements and conventions in it.