The document provides an opportunity for the student to reflect on what they have learned in their course so far and how it has influenced their choice of final major project (FMP). The student's FMP idea is to make a film inspired by the themes and mental aspects of Fight Club, with their own twist. They chose this project to test their filming skills on a full story, express personal experiences, and explore mental health themes more deeply. Key influences are Fight Club for sparking the dual personality idea, and films like American Psycho and Nightcrawler that also deal with altered mental states. The student aims to impact and confuse audiences with a psychological thriller approach and will employ a dark, atmospheric tone and style similar to Fight Club,

1. This initial document provides you with an opportunity to reflect on, review and summarise
your progress and achievements through the first 7 units of the qualification and what you
plan to create in your final project. Think about what you know now, and what it means to
you, compared with what you knew and could do before you started the course, and how
this has influenced your choice of pathway and your FMP.
Tell me in no more than 20 words, what is your
FMP idea?
To make a film with themes from fight club but in
my own twist and focusing on the mental aspects
Why have you decided to make it? Because fight club is one of my favourite movies
but also to explore the mental aspects a bit more
than the film did. I also just want to have my own
take on those aspects and inject personal
experiences into it.
What about your project makes it important to
you?
Its important to me as I want to expand my filming
skills, I’m typically used to fast editing for music
videos or fashion edits, I decided to take the
challenge of doing a full-fledged story instead to
test my skills and see what I’m capable of. It also
lets me express personal experiences onto a piece
of media that I can be proud of.
Outline some of the initial influences on your
idea/work and some potential research targets
(remember, research isn’t just a paper based
activity)
Fight club is the overall influence as it sparked the
idea of what I’m going for with the split
personality and duality of the main characters but
with an overarching message of just “letting go”.
Also, movies within the same realm such as
American psycho, night crawler etc as they deal
with personality and mental problems leading to
“alter egos” in their own senses.
What effect do you want to have on your
audience when they see your project?
I want them to feel impacted and somewhat
confused too making them double take and
possibly rewatch to fully understand the story, I’m
going for a psychological thriller type of approach.
Describe the tone/mood/style of your project
[which production techniques/characteristics are
you employing?]
I’m going for a dark, atmospheric tone and the
same type of mood and style of fight club but
with my own twist. I’ve been thinking about
filming the whole thing on my Sony hi8 to
differentiate from fight club itself or I might just
do specific scenes with it to add intensity and
character.
Why have you decided to make your project in
this style?
Because I feel it adds a lot of character with the
old style cameras, I also feel like they have a
significant tie to things like horror, thrillers etc and
feel like it would be fitting for the tone and mood.