Group Meeting Reflection

During class, we were separated into random groups, and we meant to discuss our ideas for our 2-minute film opening and receive some feedback. 

At first, everyone introduced themselves and began talking about ideas we had in mind. I spoke about my idea for my film opening to be a series of close-ups which will end into the final result of a "detective" board with a variety of images with red string all leading to one young girl, then cut to the title, and then the scene will continue with the young girl doing something in her day to day life. 

The others in my group liked my idea a lot more than I was expecting them to. And they gave me a bunch of cool ideas. One idea is to not give away who is pinning all these pictures and memorabilia on the board, to have the person pinning them wear gloves. To be able to give the scene more of a suspense tone and leave the audience wondering who the person is and if they are dangerous. I really liked the idea because it was going to give my film a different feeling than if I had just had the hand pinning it and clearly giving who it is away later in the film.  

My friend in the group also mentioned that in a film that she watched that had a similar opening to mine, they included the credits on post-its as they were applying them to the board. I spoke to my partner Miranda about it, and we absolutely loved the idea and thought it was such a creative way to include the credits on the screen without having to edit it onto the film. But as we thought deeper about how to incorporate that idea into our film, we realized that it could be really easy for the credits to "get lost" in a sense on screen. With the plan of having the shots fast-paced, it could be easy for the audience to not notice the credits and completely disregard them. This is completely what we don't want because, after all the research we have done for the credit sequence, we want it to be noticeable. 

I was also able to give some advice/feedback on the ideas of the other people in my group. For example for Lee's project that focused on the main character was in a toxic relationship and there is another boy who is "in love" with the girl has to see as the toxic boyfriend drives up to the girls house and then is getting mad at the girl, yelling at her to get in the car and then driving off angrily. I had advised her to start the scene in a public area rather than at a house so they have more opportunity to have variety of location and to make it easier to film. I gave that as feedback because I think they could get more variation of shots of the boy seeing the girl being treated this way, and the location could be able to set the time for the film. 

I found this group meeting to be super beneficial. While Miranda and I were in different groups, we were both able to discuss all the feedback we had gotten and talk about how we could change or include those things into our film.