Group meeting #1

     Today, I had my first group meeting. We discussed ideas, our blog posts, and the plot/genre of our film opening. We helped each other brainstorm different ideas and techniques that we could utilize to improve our film opening.

(some notes I took during our meeting)

    The first member (Brynn) wants to make a romantic comedy. The basic outline of the plot of her film opening is that there would be a girl who gets a call from a guy who likes her but does not want her to find out who he is, so he plays a game of 21 questions with her to figure out who he is. She wants to incorporate pov shots and many shots inside the house and phone screens. Some themes that she would incorporate would be themes of unknown and nervous anticipation. She also talked about wanting to use vibrant colors in her opening.

    The second member (Sofia) wants to do a mystery comedy. The plot would be that the main character's sister went missing but no one else cares besides the main character.  A prop that she would like to incorporate in her opening is a detective board. I found this idea really helpful for my own opening. She told the rest of the group that YouTube audio is good for using free audio. Sofie also wants to use a color pallet similar to the one used in Knives Out to make the film seem more cinematic.

(The other page of notes)

    The third member (Gabriel) wants to do an opening similar to a spy movie.  An outline for his opening would be about an assign who has to go into a house for a mission but later gets betrayed. He wants the color scheme of his opening to be dark, using colors like black and red. Is deciding on whether he wants to do an establishing shot of his house to show the audience where the mission is taking place. Also wants to make the setting rain. To achieve this he would add rain sounds to his opening. This idea also inspired me to add rain to my opening to create a mood.

    The fourth member (Santiago) still doesn't know what to do for his plot but wants to create a suspenseful film. Wants to implement the use of tracking shots in his openings. One key aspect that he would like to add to his film opening is a monster that would attack the main characters. For the monster, he wants to use a shadow to outline the size of the monster. He also wants to include a group to be in his film. 

(My group in our meeting)