Childrens Film: Initial Ideas

So we have an idea to make a children's film based on a boy, 16 years of age, who has spent all his life using the resources of the woodland to survive. He is a feral child born at Long Road (in the small forest next to the pond), with no idea of what lies outside the boundaries of his small woodland 'patch'.

Patrick will be playing the titular character in "Nedrick: Child of the woods.". In the first few shots we will try to show the distance between Nedrick and the real world through the introduction of a second, 'normal' character.

As we move into the scene the focus will slowly fade from the real world being distant from Nedrick's, to bringing the two worlds together. Hopefully, using the catalyst of a second main character to befriend Nedrick, will show how different the world is that he lives in compared to everyone else's.

Through doing this we also hope to include some slapstick comedy to accommodate the adventure (because kids like slapstick humor). we feel this style of humour would work for two reasons:
1. as mentioned above, young children understamd slapstick comedy
2. we feel that this style of comedy fits in with the rest of the story; a boy born into his own world would naturally do a lot of things that others may find odd and thus funny.

Here are some shots of the scene we are hoping to shoot this project in:





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These shots, while all very different, are all in the same small vicinity. This means that we will not need to use camera tricks to change between scenes. This will make scene transitions more natural.