We had many ideas as a group as to what style of short film we wanted to create. After reasearching into Charlie Chaplin and silents films we settled on a theme of 'The Lottery'. Which then lead us to the short film called 'The Lottery'.
"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, first published on June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. Written the same month it was published, it is ranked today as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature".
The response to this story was mildly negative this suprised Jackson and the New Yorker, many of these responses lead to readers cancelling subscriptions to the newspaper.
The plot of the story contrasts details of contemporary small town American life with an annual ritual known as "the lottery". In a small village of about 300 residents, the locals are in a strange and nervous mood on 27 June. Children gather up stones as the adult townsfolk assemble for their annual event, that in the local tradition has been practiced to ensure a good harvest. In the first round of the lottery, the head of each family draws a small slip of paper; Bill Hutchinson gets the one slip with a black spot, meaning that his family has been chosen. In the next round, each Hutchinson family member draws a slip, and Bill's wife Tessie—who had arrived late—gets the marked slip. In keeping with tradition, which has been abandoned in at least some other neighboring communities, Tessie is then stoned to death by everyone present as a sacrifice, while Tessie bemoans the unfairness of the lottery.
This lead to the 2007 film 'The Lottery' this was a slight adaption to the origanal, keeping the main theme and story around the film however. This created a newer fresher look for the film, helping us see the difference and transformations between both the eras, looking for inpiration to help our film idea come along.
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