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Hello blog!!

We had a group meeting today in class! We haven't done one of these since AS level... that was long ago. Anyway here is a photo of all of us: 

The group consisted of Emi, Adriana, Aneesa, Mariana, Fabiana, Daniela, and myself. Emi started us off and then we went in a clockwise motion. Here are the notes I jotted down for each person.
 

Emi Valdivia: Working with Joaquin and Andrew

• Wants to create a dark comedy short film where they critique power struggle, while also making a statement about joining religions for power

• They want to include gore 

• PLOT: Main character Otto completes tasks for devil, loses humanity at the end of the story

• Their script was finished last night!

Group Concerns: 

• Filming locations

Group Suggestions: 

• Film most of the story at a park near our city (the trees there make it look very woodsy as we live in Florida and palm trees throw off the vibe).

• They wanted to include 3 deaths, but for 5 minutes that's a lot so we suggested 1 death maximum instead.

• They wanted to have a scene with a pentagram, but they weren't sure if that was too much, we suggested they create their own symbol for the devil .
  
  

Adriana Vega: Working with David 

• They want to create a comedy short film 

• PLOT: A guy can teleport by flipping a penny, every time he teleports somewhere new he tries to do a kind act but it keeps backfiring on him.

• For the editing they really wanted to use fast cuts

Group Concerns:

• Scheduling (they are both busy people)

Group Suggestions: 

• Adriana was not sure what the ending should be, so we suggested that David finally completes a kind act (without it backfiring) but when he tries to teleport again he drops the penny down a drain.

Aneesa Bajaj: Working with Quinn, Nico, and Zach

• They want to make a meta dark comedy short film that's heavy on breaking the fourth wall

•  Their idea is a camera starting on an initial subject but then it falls in love with another subject, so subject 1 tries to win back the cameras attention

Group Concerns: 

• Developing a storyline that makes sense, especially since they are personifying the camera

Group Suggestions: 

• A light spotlight turning off and on the main subject to represent attention

• Having a mic cut out on the main subject

• Have a the story take place in a studio setting to give context to the cameras

• Both characters should be competing for a casting call (they are both desperate for the role)

 

Me: Working with Kenna and Renn

Group Suggestions: 

• Start and end with voice over to really tie everything together and make the plant symbolism make sense

• Purchase 3 different plants to show the growth of the plant

• Use a focus pull to go from main character to plant 

• Use the main character crossing off dates on her calendar to show time passing (or weeks since plants don't grow that quick)

• Camera is calendar- writing on glass over the camera lense. 

Mariana Aldana: Working with Audrey

• They want to make a drama short film 

• PLOT: A boy has older sister whose excited to go to college, the boy is very laid back while the sister is super prepared and ready to go to college, when she suddenly dies

• Boy starts with a therapy sessions a year later to unpack trauma

Suggestions: 

• The sister should have a Quick death that doesn't have to be shown, like a car crash

• Ideally have an adult play therapist 

• Put date on the bottom of the screen

Fabiana Castillo: Working alone

• She wants to create a psychological thriller short film 

• A guy is getting eaten alive by guilt after killing girl. He starts getting weird mail a year later which makes his fears worse. He’s slowly going crazy.

• He goes to police to confess

Suggestions: 

• Give more context at the beginning of the story on the death of the girl. For example a crash and show the year of crash

• "Time doesn’t pass" by having him confess on the 1 year anniversary of the crash

• Maybe have the character be crazy/ bipolar so he writes the notes himself and just through the movie show the different personalities 

• Have limited dialogue 

Daniela Gonzalez: working with Gaby

• They want to create a music promo 

• Their artist: Annie Lemasters. Gaby met her a couple years ago, she recently moved to Nashville to persue her career as a music artist but they still keep in touch

• She has a very pop vibe like Taylor swift and Olivia Rodrigo

• They want to cover a very dramatic energy as the lyrics are dramatic

• They want to make a story based promo

No suggestions Can you tell i love organizing my blog posts through bullet points? Anyway that was it for the group meeting! I'm glad we had it because it definitely benefited all of us positively, and it personally gave me ideas.