Group meeting #1 reflection :)

 Today I was able to get into groups and collaborate my ideas and help people develop theirs. This was a great opportunity to get some feedback about my idea and get encouraged to try new ideas that my group members shared with me. We all helped each other in significant ways and shared ideas to everyone's project to help them out a little to steer them in a good direction. Everyone's ideas were so different and creative and I can't wait for when they finish!

    

    Layla's story is a CoA film. She developed her character and she wanted to make it about social media insecurity and that her credits were going to be the character scrolling on social media. I think this idea was so cool and it would be so fun to see when it comes together. we gave her some great tips that would help to establish her plot and credit sequence. For example, Nicole gave a good idea to put the credits within the scrolling of social media. This idea was so good and everyone agreed!! This CoA film has a such a good plot to it and I am so glad we got to help Layla in her process.

    Nicole's film is going to be a romantic comedy about two girls that go from not really knowing/liking each other, to lovers. Nicole wanted to start the scene with something that would catch the viewers attention like a car crash. Me and my group incorporated many ways to help this seem very realistic. Our ideas were to make it a car crash on the first day of school and then they have classes together. This would mean the two "enemies" are forced to like each other. I think these ideas were so good along with the credits. Nicole said she wanted to do the credits inside the car like in the rearview mirror. This would tie so good into her overall film and I loved that idea!

    Isa's film is also going to be a CoA film. She developed her characters because she said that after the characters are planned out then everything falls right into place. I like this idea and agree because developing the character is one of the hardest parts. Isa's idea for her credit sequence is to be incorporated onto objects. She showed us a few examples and said that they could also show more information about the actual characters. I like her idea and I'm excited for her to develop her plot more. All of us really liked her idea since she knew what she wanted straight away for her film.

    For Andres film, he wanted to do an action thriller film. He said he has always liked action thriller growing up so he knew a lot about how they are filmed. He wanted to make a movie about a group of people sitting at a poker table doing illegal things but each person is their own character, meaning they are all dressed very differently. Andre pointed out that one could be a cowboy so this helped us to understand how vastly different he is going to make each character. He wanted to do so many things and had so many ideas but we explained that there will have to be editing on top of editing for the types of credits he wants to add. He wanted the camera to pan to each character then blur the background and add little aspects of each individual character. Everyone thought this idea was so cool and I am so excited to see this come together.

Diego wanted to go for a Horror film. He wanted his film to start off in the everglades with a person trapped there stuck in some sort of loop. We helped him develop his plot more since the ending of his idea seemed like it wouldn't leave on on a cliffhanger. We showed him an example trailer of a horror movie that did kind of the same thing he wants to do to explain that our idea was for him to make the end the beginning if that makes sense, meaning that he could record the ending then when the film is done he could write something like "one month before.." We all thought that this would add great suspense to his overall film.

    In the end my group members helped me to think of more ideas to make my film more realistic. I said that I wanted my story based on an FBI agent going through the stuff at a new crime scene and that glasses from the crime scene would allow the FBI agent to see dead people and they told me different ways to edit and to incorporate good lighting into my film. They gave me the ideas for instead of the glasses where the character can see dead people, it could be anytime the character would touch something. Another idea that was given to me was about how to get a good flashback. One idea was that every time the character touches an object from the crime scene, the camera would zoom into the characters eye and make some sort of tunnel to the flashback. These ideas add so much more suspense overall and I really enjoyed hearing everyone's input to my idea. I really liked group meeting one and I hope to see everyone's final project looking amazing!