2nd group meeting

I met with my group today before lesson to see if any of us had worked on any ideas in more detail. I suggested the "Photo Collector" idea that I had been trying to develop and we spoke about the possibility of the female character perhaps becoming infatuated with one of the people who help her (i.e. Electrician, Decorator) and we liked the idea of her 'replacing' him with a husband who either previously died, or left her. I thought that she could purposefully sabotage parts of her house, just so that this one person had to constantly revisit. We compared her to a Miss Havisham type character, but I like the idea of building her up as being a slightly sinister crazy old lady, and then undercutting this at the end by just portraying her as lonely and sad. 

The topic of "Photo Collecting" is somewhat lost in the previous idea, however, and I feel that it would be visually very interesting to use this idea. I thought that this woman could instead be obsessed with the idea of children, as I'd previously thought that she could have had a miscarriage/unable to have children in her earlier life, which would provide a reason as to why she is obsessed with collecting photographs of her "family". 

I also toyed with the idea of her losing her family and all of her photographic memories of them in a house fire, but I felt that the previous ideas were more realistic. I thought that to progress this story line,  maybe the woman could have a young female cleaner who brings her child to work with her sometimes; the late-middle-aged photo collector could become obsessed with this child. She could continually ask questions about the child and be upset when the cleaner doesn't bring her to work. She could do activities with the child that a grandmother would usually do with a grandchild, such as arts and crafts, baking etc. which would potentially instigate some aesthetically appealing imagery. 


I have previously watched a film "One Hour Photo" about a man who works in a photo-printing shop, and who becomes obsessed with one family when looking at the photo's they need printing. 

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIBX5RrG4Q
It is very dark and sinister, and I am not entirely sure that is what we want this film to become, if we do go with this idea. 


The others had not any definite narrative ideas of their own as of yet and so we decided we will keep thinking of either an ending to this idea or a new idea, and will meet up again to discuss further.