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Today in class I had my first group meeting. I was put in a group with 4 other people. We all shared our ideas for the project and showed each other our blogs. Afterwards we gave each other some feedback and pointers on how to improve and learn from each other.
My group had Nina, Fernanda, Nico and Justin. Nina was the first one to go. Her genre is a Psychological Drama. Her film opener is about this druggie who just broke up with his gf. He wakes up in a hotel room all sweaty. He has his friend outside banging really loudly on the door trying to wake him up. I liked the idea of her story. She still had some small details to decide like the outfits or where they might film, She wants it to look like a trap house. For the editing she plans on using some type of green filter. The group was trying to help her decide on those little details. She was still thinking about how she should start it, and they told her she could start with a black screen and then she could show the things around the room like the drugs then show him laying on bed.
Next It was Justin's turn. His movie is inspired by Scream. It starts with an establishing shot of the movie theater and it shows him walking out with his girlfriend. Then he gets a call from this stalker played by his friend Julio . He will show cuts between the calls and a pov shot of Julio in the car. He goes to this alley and ends up getting killed and the girlfriend leaves him for Julio. In the end he wants to show a newspaper that says he got killed. He was unsure on how he would do the newspaper. I suggested looking on Canva for a newspaper template. When he gets killed he plans on using police cars. He wants to ask an actual police officer to be in it. His idea does sound very similar to Scream but I think it could turn out great with little details like the newspaper on the floor and a kid on his bike riding past it. The sounds of the police sirens and making his shots good, Like the pov shot of Julio in the car.
Next was Fernanda, She didn't have any details planned out and she didn't know what genre she was doing. One of her ideas is about this dancer who's at her dance studio alone. She wants to show the dancer dancing and stops but a reflection of her in the mirror keeps going. She wasn't sure how she would show that so the group suggested filming the two parts . First she dances and she stops then the camera switches to the mirror where she's still dancing and the mirror starts cracking. Her second idea was to show the ballet dancer dancing very fast and she slowly shows her heart rate getting fast making it intense and making the audience more curious. Everyone liked her second idea better because it would grab the audience's attention. We told her to film at night to make it more interesting. She also said this part where she wanted to use some type of cane and hit it while she’s dancing but that part confused me a bit.
Then it was my turn to tell the group my two ideas. One was a thriller and the other one was a romcom. They really liked the thriller and didn't have any feedback on it. For the rom com Nina suggested to show different parallels between the girl and the guy. She said I could show the girl having flashbacks about the guy she likes, being delusional about him and then show the guy and show what actually happened. She suggested I show the girl writing in her diary talking about how the guy was staring at her and he winked at her but in reality he just walked by her. I liked this idea but I wasn't too sure on what the plot could be, because I wouldn't watch a movie about a girl just being delusional about her crush.
Nico went last, His idea was inspired by Smile. It starts with a kid eating at a restaurant and out of nowhere everyone disappears. Then a man comes in and then it cuts to him at therapy in a dimly lit room, sweating. The group suggested while he's at the restaurant to show the noise getting louder and louder then it gets quiet and everyone is gone. I really liked this idea. The only problem he had was where he should film because it would be hard to get the restaurant fully empty.
Overall I really liked this group meeting. I think everyone in my group benefitted from this and it will help them make their project even better.
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