Group Meeting #1

First Group Meeting

 Hey there!! Today, we had our first group meeting in class, which was really helpful for me to get more ideas, and helped me to overachieve some obstacles that I had. We did this meeting on a group of 8 persons from my class, where we took turns to discuss about our projects, and get feedback, and maybe some new ideas. 

The other projects

The first person to go was Cristina. Her idea is to have a DJ that’s having trouble to become more known, since he’s starting his career, and because he’s young. She wanted to record all of this on the parking lot, inside a car, at the beach. Some of the troubles she had were that she didn’t know how to show that the DJ was having trouble becoming famous, so we said that maybe she could include the DJ having a conversation with a friend. This opening its going to be a coming of age genre. Link to Cristina’s blog :)

Some of the other projects that we discussed a lot about was Noah’s. He’s doing a drama about a teen who’s growing up in a bad environment. Noah wanted to start his opening with the main character smoking, but the problem is that he wanted the main character to be a teen, and since its illegal for minors to smoke, he was wondering what he could do to record that scene, and Sebastian suggested that he could only show the cigarette coming out of the character’s mouth, and if he wanted it to look more realistic, that there could be an adult behind the teen, smoking, and hide him, so it looks like the smoke its coming from the teen. Link to Noah’s blog

My project

My project didn’t get much comments, but my group members suggested that maybe on the scene when I’m showing the main character tied up on the chair, maybe I could add movement, like the chair moving and him trying to get off the ropes that are tying him up. They also suggested that after I include the tittle, I could add an explanation of how my character got himself into that situation (tied up, on a chain, in a dark room), and they told me that it could also really help me with the timing of my opening. 

Impact

This group meeting had an impact on my project, since it helped me realize that there were some things (like shots, scenes, and time concerns) that I had not considered, and their ideas inspired me and helped me make my project better. 

Here's the picture we took at the end of the activity.