This was the first time ever I met with other people outside my group to discuss our ideas. The plan was to help each other improve our stories and production.
Ale's Part
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She wanted to start with the ending scene of the movie to make the viewers question how the individual got to the state she's in. I thought that concept was so cool. The idea is to start with the protagonist recovering from plastic surgery and then flatlining, then cutting to a few years prior and letting the story begin from there.
I only had two concerns. One, how is she going to recreate a hospital? Ale assured me that she can do it in her room with the use of close-ups. I told her to be very careful and meaningful with her shots, as that could go wrong very quickly. Two, how will people understand the surgery is cosmetic, and do people even die from that? A quick Google search told us that the mortality rate for cosmetic surgery is very low, but people still die from blood clots. She never answered my other question; I think we got distracted.
Addison's Part
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God, I really hope that's how her name is spelled. She's been in a class of mine almost every year since 2020, and I still don't know her name. That's a huge failure on my end. Anyway, Addison wanted to do a psychological thriller. The entire opening was basically just following a woman while she buries her husband's body. She and Ale had the same idea in the sense that they started with the last scene of the movie.
I told Addison that she basically just wrote a short story for a long story and that this doesn't have to just be the end. The woman can be insane; this scene can be an implication of that. What if her husband is very much still alive and loving, but the woman thinks he's hiding a big secret. The woman wants to kill her husband for her belief that she's defending herself from him. This opening can be about her daydreaming about that. Sort of like The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, where the narrator is unrelatable and tries to justify an unjustifiable murder.
Gabby's Part
https://gabyslens.blogspot.com/
Gabby planned to do a coming-of-age story about a girl who escapes her room while her parents are arguing. The idea is to have the girls room reflect her personality. Her parents argue because her little brother is dead.
I asked Gabby several questions. How old is the brother? Why did he kill himself? What exactly is in the girl's room that reflects her personality? She didn't have an answer, so we came up with them together. The brother should be in middle school, maybe 8th grade, since most people were absolutely miserable in middle school. He could've always been an outcast, in school and out, and at home, his family didn't want much to do with him. So, he must've felt helpless and like a burden to others, therefore thinking that suicide would be doing others a favor. As for the girls room, I suggested having childhood things covered by this girl's new identity once her brother died. To represent her loss of innocence and a side of her once he left.
Vicky's Part
Sadly, I didn't write down her blog URL. Should I remember to ask, I'll update this post with her URL.
Vicky didn't have an idea in stone. But she wanted to make a dystopian that drew inspiration from The Giver. A society that selects a few to have a special, important job. Little do the people chosen know they'll soon have to fight something big and intimidating.
I told her it might be difficult to make a futuristic dystopian; she said no, because we live in a very clean, idealized, and gentrified city; it'll actually be very easy. I said she was right; I didn't think about it that way. Then I told her, What about the powers? She needs special effects for that; it may be hard to do. She said that in the worst-case scenario, she'll only talk about it but never show the powers themselves.
My Part
I didn't have much to say, but since we were running out of time in the classroom, I quickly made something up based on my research. A woman in a western, she is a cowgirl, even though it is very much frowned upon at that time. She is a pacifist on a bounty, and escapes people trying to catch her.
Addison recommended showing how women in the western landscape were perceived. As servants to their male counterparts, and then introduce the cowgirl. Then we were told to pack up and get ready to leave; the bell was about to ring. So, I didn't get many suggestions on improvements; however, we will have more meetings, so hopefully I'll get more advice soon!
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