Fiction Adaptation Unit- Developing my film's story.

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I had been toying with the storyline of my fiction adaptation film. I previously had the idea to focus on the idea of two people on different sides of a war helping each other out and showing some humanity, but I found this was mostly due to the fact that I didn't really have a budget to create spectacular explosions and such that a proper Hollywood war film would.

Also, I wasn't 100% comfortable with the idea of this story and as such, I have decided to create a sound piece film made up with a series of photographs which I will photoshop and add sound effects to in order to tell a story. I am struggling to find examples of what I mean by this, but I will continue my investigation into this and possibly create a very short test film to showcase the style of film I want to make.

A couple of storyline ideas I am toying with is:

• Having the story revolve around one character suffering from Post-traumatic stress disorder after a time at war, and trying to adapt to everyday life again, while battling their illness. They will suffer "attacks" throughout the film, from such things as loud noises and unsettling imagery.
  I hope to create a very unsettling film if I choose this storyline, filming and editing it in such a way that the viewer feels uncomfortable and somewhat on edge, much like the character in the film will be feeling.
• The second storyline is simply a character who happens to be at war and is experiencing all the horrors of war, such as death, explosions, starvation from lack of food and just general unpleasentness.

I am thinking of going with the first story idea, as the second actually seems very generic, and I don't particularly want my film to be a generic war film. However, if I were to film it with vast landscape shots, dark imagery and incorporate this with appropriate sound effects, I should be able to make the film visually interesting enough that viewer's would still enjoy it.