Reflection Of Group Meeting

During todays class, my teacher put students in group and we each discussed our early ideas on each of our projects. I was placed in a group with four other students Nico, Lucia, Amanda, and Ricardo. We took advice and learned from each other's feedback and ideas.

Ricardo was the first to share and his story consisted of a similar theme as mine. Following the sports/drama genre his idea started off with a teenage boy that is being bullied because he has some sort of disease and he is motivated to start getting into shape and working out. An idea that I suggested for his plot was showing flashbacks of him being bullied and/or being rejected by girls etc. while he was working out to motivate him to work out harder. He also had a color scheme in mind for his film opening which is inspired by many sports/dramas by having a lot of greys and blues. He is also planning on shooting in a make shift garage gym to have more control of the lighting.

Then I explained my ideas and a common question all my group members had was what is the goal in my film opening because it is going to consist of two best friends trying to one up each other in various aspects. There question was well what are they working so hard for? I tried my best to explain that it would act more as a traditional opening to a show or movie not a short story type of thing. I am considering adding an end goal of football season starting soon which is motivating the characters during the off-season.

Next was Lucia, she did not have an idea but as we went through her various blog posts she had decided she wanted it to be in a coming of age genre. Her final idea which I suggested is the story of a typical mean girl bully. But not the ordinary depiction of a fun, cool life. It dives deeper into the roots of her home life and why she is the way she is and many things she struggles with by her self. 

Nico's project had the most developed story and was in the horror genre. His plot starts off with a woman setting up her home for a date and is getting various flashes of blood everywhere in her mind and then her phone displays a message from a man saying "I'm here" but in the background you can see a couple of other old messages saying the same thing as the last message. Which then leads to the doorbell ringing and then that's it. He discussed wanting to use multiple different horror lighting, sfx, and camera techniques. 

Finally, Amanda's idea was simpler and straight forward. She wants to tell a story of a young teen with a drug addiction and her life. She didn't have much of a plot idea yet but she's going to play the character and was discussing her research on how to portray that type of character and what mannerisms, speech, and costumes she would have to utilize to give off a convincing young drug addict.

I think this activity was very productive and greatly benefited everyone that had participated!