Group Meeting

 The group meeting we had on class was very eye opening, my group really helped me make changes and have new ideas to have a better movie opening. I made changes and now the story is going to be that this three girls are coming from a party and its very early in the morning, they are all drinking while driving and blasting music, dancing and singing, having pure fun. Then they have an impulsive idea that they want to break into a bank, two girls go out to do it, and the driver stays inside the car singing and dancing to the songs. Suddenly, an alarm goes off and they all escape rushing, because of the rush, and the fact that the driver is drunk, they end up crashing. Finally, if I still have time, I will do a final scene of the main character (driver) getting ready to go out and receiving a message from her mom saying "Please take care today". Before this group meeting I had a much more "action" and "comic" vision of the film, but now is much more of a drama, as the original idea was that the girls were a group of delinquents that went to rob a bank and then was chased by the police. I liked this idea way more, as it has a much deeper message being that teenagers sometimes can have mistakes that they'll regret the rest of their life and that they are too young and need their parent to guide them and be close with them, which is shown by the fact that the main character's mom doesn't even ask how and where she is going or with whom, she just texts her "take care" but if she had her mom taking care of her she probably wouldn't end up making such serious mistakes. This is a topic that I know about and I can much relate to as I am a teenager and I've seen people that their parents are never at home and they make a lot of mistakes because of that. 

My team suggested me to use a brown paper bag to cover the "alcohol" bottles so that the audience knows what it is as they can't be showed, also I had trouble with communicating the audience that the scenes of the car where very early in the morning, so they told me to just use edition to add the time in that scene and in the last scene when she gets the text message from her mom to ensure the audience knows the time frames. Moreover, one of the girls suggested me that last scene where the main character is getting ready before that party. I feel like the movie after my opening would go on digging inside the relationship the main character has with her parents, how she is not taken care off and has a very messy life, and that opening would actually be the last scene and the girl would end up in a wheel chair and one of her friends wouldn't make it.

while each group member was presenting I was writing down different features of their movie opening and adding some suggestions to it and this is what I came up with:

Ayami

·      Coming out story 

·      Character vs character 

·      Conflict development 

·      Do the shot list 

·      No dialogue 

·      Only one character will be visually seen 

·      Conflict between her friends and her

·      Represent the coming out on the opening so that the audience knows what is going on 

·      Conflict with her parents 

·      Goes to the store and gets flashbacks 

 

Violette 

·      Drama

·      Changes her identity in the bathroom 

·      Flashback of funeral

·      People think that she died 

·      Cut down some scenes to fit the 2 min

·      Just focus on the bathroom and flashbacks 

·      Include a voice over of the girl 

 

Dan 

·      Interrogation 

·      Security camera shots 

·      Include flashbacks inserts of what happened why he is there 

·      Research actual cases to see behavior 

 

Sebastian 

·      Horror 

·      Group of friends partying 

·      Got super drunk 

·      Serial killer stocking them 

·      Not showing inside of party 

·      Gets a message of serial killer 

 

Kayla 

·      Sci fi 

·      In the future 

·      Dystopia 

·      They are sick

·      All dressed up the same way 

·      Include security camera