Group Meeting 1!

Yesterday our class conducted our first group meetings. The group meetings consisted of our class splitting into assigned groups of six to gain knowledge and get constructive feedback from peers. We started out by each sharing our film opening idea. Then we each shared ideas, tips, help, and feedback. Here's a quick summary.

Group member 1 (Alejandro): His film opening is going to be a psychological horror about a hardcore drug user who is hitting rock bottom. After he explained his story, the rest of the group gave him some tips. We all agreed that the story needed to be more fleshed out, as it was a bit underdeveloped. Additionally, Alejandro voiced his concerns about set designs, as he was going to have to move furniture around his room to get the effect he wanted. I spoke up and suggested he try rearranging his room ahead of time to test how it looks on camera before his shooting days. He also spoke about props and how he was going to create the "drugs" used in his film, saying he was going to use flour. Another group member suggested he use powdered sugar.

Group member 2 (Sienna): Sienna's film will be a coming-of-age film about seniors about to graduate from high school. Her opening will focus on different members of a friend group looking back at all the memories they created throughout high school and deciding they need to hang out as a group together one last time to commemorate the end of their H.S. experience. The group told Sienna that the opening needed to hint that they were about to graduate to tell the audience the significance of their last hangout. We told her to show it through environmental factors rather than in dialogue, I suggested a shot of a Calander that has a date circled and says "graduation." 

Group member 3 (Julio): Julio's film will be a horror focused on serial killers who are a couple. It will open with the two murdering a guy. As a group, we brainstormed creative title cards. One group member suggested writing the title in (fake) blood, and another suggested having it as the title in a newspaper. 

Group member 4 (Max): Max's film will be a drama focusing on a girl stuck in a time loop. The girl is in a therapy session, when she leaves, she gets into her car and then she gets a call, and she's back in the therapist's chair. The group's suggestion was to make the audience find out about the loop alongside the protagonist.

Group member 5 (Me!): I explained my idea to the group. They all liked it and gave me helpful ideas, for example, in the scene where my protagonist drives away from the store they suggested when she turns on the radio the announcer should be in the middle of their sentence to make it seem more realistic and not planned. 

All in all, this was a very successful group meeting and I'm glad I could help out my group members.