Hey blog!! During this week, my teacher made group meetings. We were a group of 4 students and the main objective of this meetings were to share what each other's ideas are and learn from them as well as getting feedback of your idea to take your project one step ahead. We also shared each other's blogs to get inspiration from each other and help improve our blog post if we need to.
In my group I was with my classmates: Nina, Nico, Justin and Chandni. Nina was the first member to share what the idea for her project is which is psychological thriller. She was the group member who was the clearest on what she wanted to do. Nina is working in a group and not as an individual in which they are trying to create a piece about a teenage boy who wake ups sweating with a very messy room due to the drug addiction. The boy falls under the drug addiction due to the break up with his girlfriend but his friend is trying to help him out by trying to get him out of the house and talking to him. But the teenager can barely get up and open the door which is when the film opening will end. They are going to utilize a green filter to create a sense of drag to the audience. I suggested to heavily rely on the costume design and the teenage boy's room to really show the serious situation the boy is in and help emphasize the draggy feeling. Also, she wanted to show him kinda getting ready to open the door to his friend and I recommended to ensure that she did't make it look like a montage since our teacher said no montages.
Then, Justin shared his story about a guy and his girlfriend walking out of the movie theater and someone calls them while watching them through the cameras of the theater. The man of the phone is waiting for them in the car outside the teacher and eventually gets to them and kills them but it ends up being that the girlfriend was part of the murder of the boy. Justina and his teammate Julio really like horror movies so they wanted to make their film opening horror with lots of inspiration from "Scream." lWhen we heard his story we all realized that fell under the stalking category and our teacher was vey clear to us to stay away from that idea but Justin and his teammate really liked the idea they had so we suggested to make sure to center on the couple and not on the guy stalking the couple. Despite that their idea had to do with stalking they had everything planned out very well. They were set of what there filing location was and what the couple will he wearing.
Chandni then shared her story about a girl dreaming about his crush and waking up and realizing that she was just dreaming. I was very confused when she explained her story because she kept going back and forth between the two ideas her and her teammate had but I enjoyed the parts that I was able to understand. She was struggling on deciding which genre she wanted to approach because her teammate and her had very different ideas and they weren't able to come to agreement. I suggested to take the advice she got and her teammate got about the two different ideas they had, to try and come to an agreement or if that was't possible to try and merge the ideas together.
Nico was the last team member to share his story about a guy who is hallucinating while sitting at a restaurant. The guy sees that everyone disappear out of the nowhere but she has no facial expression or sign of fear. Then someone wearing a black suit walks up to him and then we flashbacks of him at therapy. I don't quite understand what the overall purpose of the story is and how it's going to end. So I suggested to talk to his teammate and think about how you have to leave the audience thinking of what will happen next since it's just the opening of a film and you are unable to tell the whole story. I also recommended to keep the lighting low to emphasize the feeling of confusion the guy has.
Finally, I explained my idea for the film opening and showed them my blogs and research. I was unsure of whether to record my film opening during the day or night time since in the dance studio I'm filming the sunlight comes in. We all came to a agreement to film at night to highlight the idea of the fear the audience has to the unknown. Most of the questions I received were about where I was filming and what the dancer was going to be wearing so I explained that I'm filing at the dance studio I go to and that the dancer will wear and leotard leggings and dance with a cane.
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