Pre-Production and Major Project MAJOR UPDATE

Recently, there has been a massive change in plans with my pre-production and major project idea. I originally wanted to compose a film piece in the super-hero genre, and was strongly debating whether or not it would be worth me only using this genre for a pre-production piece only (as it would allow me to have a large, imaginary budget) or create something that I would be able to carry over into my major project.
After some careful consideration and discussions with Charlie Ansell, who I will be working with on this course, we decided that it would be best for us to create something for pre-production which would then be able to be carried over into our major project.
There are several reasons for this, but the most important reason for me personally is that I believe it would be most beneficial for me to spend the entirety of this year working on one singular film project, as opposed to planning production for two.
There is also the recent influx of super-hero film and series that have been arriving in droves. The super-hero genre is at an all-time high in terms of popularity, and I feel that if I were to realistically create my own (especially one based in an Original Character), there is a very real possibility that it would be "lost in the shuffle" so to speak, and lose out to more popular super-hero films with already established characters and fanbases.
Here is a list of all the Superhero films that are to be released between the years 2014 and 2020 (this excludes television and Netflix series like Daredevil and Arrow.)

As can be clearly seen, there is a large amount of mainstream super-hero films being released all the way up until the year 2020, and as such it would be difficult for my film to stand out from the crowd of similar films that are being released too. In this project, I would like to create a film as unique and different as possible, and a genre as saturated as the Superhero/comic book genre would be very difficult to work with when trying to achieve this result.

Pre-Production Unit- Considering my Production format and problems.

I have recently spent a lot of time considering certain technical aspects about my Superhero idea. In the past, I brought up the debate about whether or not I wanted to create my Superhero idea as a television series, or one singular film.

I have done some more thinking about this and discovered several potential problems that may occur with each of these problems, which I will list below.

Problems with creating a series-

• Each episode will have to be fresh and interesting, bringing something new to the story. (Avoid traditional television "filler" episodes, episodes which do not have much story relevance, and are merely created in order to fulfil a network obligation or pad out the number of episodes in a series.)
• I have to consider whether or not I would like my series to have one continuous story (much like Lost, Breaking Bad) in which case viewer's may become frustrated if they drop in half-way through the series as it may be confusing for them to pick up on what is happening due to having not watched from the very beginning, or make it so my series is created with each episode having a new story so that viewer's can comfortably drop in and out of the series at any point and still enjoy the product for what it is (much like X-files, Friends etc.)

Problems with creating a singular film-

• In creating a singular film, there are many things I have to consider, including the fact that it is very unlikely that I will be able to create a full-length movie for my major project. Most feature-length films are about 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours in length, and with a student sized budget, it would be incredibly difficult for me to pull something like that off.
  There is of course the possibility of my creating a short-film instead (around 20-30 minutes), but this amount of time severely limits the amount of story I can tell in the product, and isn't a particularly great format to tell the kind of epic story a super-hero product usually tells.
• There is also the fact that creating one singular film quite limits the amount of story-telling I can do. I have a ton of ideas that I want to incorporate into my film, and if I were to include everything that I wanted to, especially into one film, there is a risk that the film will become oversaturated with plot-elements and be too confusing to watch.