What's up blog! This week marks the third week of my portfolio project. On Tuesday of this week my teacher had put the class into groups. In this meeting I was arranged into a group of 5. The purpose of the meeting was for us(students) to share our project ideas with each other and learn from others ideas, as well as give advice to one another.
The group I was in include my classmates Maria, Samara, Vanessa, and Arianna. We started off by introducing ourselves to each other and then we began to talk about our ideas. Maria was the first one to present her project idea to us. Maria decided on creating a mystery film intro in which one of the characters disappeared and how she wants the whole plot to relate to how the missing person disappeared. I was interested to hear that she wanted to try and foreshadow the plot by laying mise-en-scene elements around in the background for the audience to discover. Maria also said how she wanted her opening to give off a more investigative POV. I think Maria's idea is very interesting and will be very cool to see.
The next person to present their idea was Samara. Samara wants to create a sports comedy film. She was inspired from the movie The Sandlot as well as from her brothers baseball team. Samara had the most change in what she wanted to do, because the group influenced her to another idea, which she ended up liking better. Samara plans on having her opening filmed during the day as well as to have her comedy to be cheesy but not too much. Samara left with the idea of having to kids making a tryout or going to a tryout for a baseball team, so that the kids can play together like the kids in The Sandlot. I like her idea because The Sandlot was a good movie and her opening is based on it, so I believe it will be really neat and fun.
After Samara was done with her project opening idea it was Vanessa's turn to talk. Vanessa knew the most about what she wanted to do for her opening. Vanessa discussed how she planned on doing a psychological horror opening. Her opening takes place around the 80's and it's about a college student who is a male nurse practitioner and doesn't gain the attention he wants from the doctors, so he kills the other employees to move up the ranks. This idea was very good and interestingly. Vanessa didn't really know how to show the hate he has for his co-workers so I gave the idea that the nurse practitioner should have a conversation with the main nurse in their office and one of the coworkers interrupts and the main nurse disregards the nurse practitioner. She liked the idea so she might implement it into her project.
Now it was my turn to talk about my idea. I started off by saying what genre I picked and how I decided on it. I then gave my idea of what I wanted to do for the plot of the film and I got feedback and decided to change it up a little. I didn't get much feedback because my group members looked a little confused however I got the feedback I needed. They helped me decide on the influence of the main character and how I should display him. After me, my classmate Arianna went. There wasn't much time left in the class by this point, so all we could discuss with her project is that she was doing a sports drama about gymnastics and how the gymnast was really good however she had a bad accident while doing gymnastics. I'm kind of curious as to how this'll work but I'm also interested.
Overall I feel like this group meeting was very good opportunity to learn about what I need to add to my project as well as what I should change. Also, it helped me discover my plot for my opening.
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