Group Meeting #2

     Today we did our second group meeting! We discussed everything about our films production and such, and I got a lot of great feedback from the group that will definitely help my project improve!

    The first person to present her film was Brynn. She had trouble coming up with a film name so we had given her some suggestions. What we settled on for her was "20 Questions" since the film is a Romcom about a girl getting a mysterious message from a boy in her math class asking to play 20 questions. The film is shot in her house and she mostly focused on using lighting to convey meaning in the opening. She said the film is meant to represent girlhood and femininity. She is also filming her CCRs today which is ahead of the rest of our group! 

    The next person to present was me, and since this is my blog you already know about my project, so I'll keep this brief. I filled everyone in on my ideas and showed them parts of my film, and told them the MANY new conflicts I've encountered within the past week (ALL of my editing got deleted and I needed to restart.) I also told them about how I decided to compose my own opening music! I really had wanted to find a hip-hop song that would go with it, but since all of the songs that fit well were by very large artists, I decided to take the opposite approach and compose a dissonant and ominous piece that would last for the first 30-ish seconds of my opening.

    Sergio went after me, and he had a LOT done! He also composed his opening music and he is almost done filming, since he had some location and timing conflicts. His film is a sports drama about a Med student with a terminal illness so he started to obsess over powerlifting to stay alive. He said he took a lot of inspiration from The Batman (2022) movie, which is ironic to me since I took a lot of inspiration from The Joker (2019).  His CCR idea was a super creative idea too! He said he was going to do a self-interview type of video where he would literally edit him interviewing himself. He had struggled to come up with a name, and we sadly couldn't help him come up with one he liked.

    Next was Oona, and I REALLY liked her opening. We really had no critiques to give her at all. She is also doing a sports drama, this one is about a girl who is injured and is training for a gymnastics competition. She filmed in an actual gymnastics studio, too! All of her filming and editing was done and the only bit of critique we gave her was that we didn't think the font for her title really fit, which she agreed with.

    Finally, Maria went. Maria is doing a mystery/drama about a girl who is a model citizen and went missing, and detectives find out she is involved in some drug scandal. The title is "Interwoven" and a lot of her conflicts took place during the actual filming. From what she told us, I believe she is done filming and almost done editing, and she is having trouble finding CCR ideas while remaining creative. Her previous idea was to recreate Hot Ones, but she realized she should either add a twist to it to make it personalized or change the idea so she wouldn't be copying someone else's work.