Group Meeting Reflection

 Helping Each Other!

Today in class we have group meetings to hear other ideas and offer feedback. It was a beneficial activity as we helped each other work through the issues we each had and the constructive criticisms and new ideas served as inspiration on how to improve our projects. Here is a picture of us during our meeting:

First, Isa told us about her coming-of-age film idea and how she started by developing a character before she thought about the plot. She shared her research with us and said she could not decide between doing a voice-over in her opening or focusing on character development and setting instead. We suggested she focus on character development as character is one of the main aspects of her production. In addition, she said she did not like the idea of having the credits on a black screen and would rather incorporate them in objects as the opening progresses. We agreed with her idea since she wanted the audience to be engaged from the very first second instead of ignoring the credits. 

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Then, Layla told us she is also thinking of producing a coming-of-age story. She does not have the entire plot set out but she told us about her main character and how she is very insecure because of social media and how she wants to center the story around that. We gave her suggestions on how to start the opening and she said she wanted to do something like scrolling on social media and comparing herself to other girls on the internet. I suggested she incorporate the credits of the film in the social media post and she thought it was a clever idea. 

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Danielle told us she wants to create a thriller and how she wants to start her opening with an agent investigating and examining the evidence in a crime scene. She wanted to incorporate flashbacks to the actual crime whenever the agent touched the objects and we gave her suggestions to create the transitions between the present and the past. We suggested she use filters and lightning to differentiate the timelines as well. She was worried her idea was going too hard to create but we encouraged her and helped her come up with ways to achieve the scene she had in mind. 

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Andre shared his idea to create an action thriller about a group of gamblers who are trying to settle their debts. He wanted to start with all of them sitting around a poker table and he wanted to zoom in and stop in each one of them to edit text to say their name and explain their personalities. We all agreed it was a fun idea but told him he needed to schedule enough time to edit if he wanted to turn out the way he was picturing it. He also mentioned that he wants music to be playing in the background and how he plans to incorporate the credits within the mise-en-scene elements. 

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Next, Diego told us about his idea for a horror story about a guy being trapped in an infinite forest with a monster. He did not have a clear idea of the plot and asked for our help to connect his opening with the rest of the film. We suggested he did a flashback to the past to explain how the guy got there and show that there is more than just the opening to the film. We also encouraged him to develop the full plot before he established the opening scene.

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Lastly, they all helped me improve my ideas. I told them how I was thinking of having my two characters meet in a situation that made them annoyed at each other, but they told me it would not be clear that they would eventually fall in love if there was no hint of attraction, which I will make sure to include in my opening. They liked the idea of arguing over a parking spot or getting into a small car accident to initiate an argument and said that the contrasts between my characters would allow for an interesting. I thought the group meeting was really helpful as I got honest feedback about my ideas and they helped me come up with ways of solving issues and improving my overall project.