Reflection group meeting #1

Arantza 

Arantza wanted to do a coming-of-age summer before college opening. 2 best friends are spending their summer before college together, except one of them is hiding their chronic illness from the other. Since they're going to different colleges, the girl who's sick wants the 2 of them to spend their last summer together, and when they eventually go off to college, the other friend can find out she died and has an illness all along. Some suggestions to show the best friend was sick and hiding it was a nosebleed that she quickly wiped off before the other friend could see. Arantza wanted to incorporate her bike, so we suggested mounting the bike on her car to show it. 

The platform she suggested we use is Studio Binder, which makes it easier to write scripts.

 

Andrea

Andrea wants to do a dystopian/apocalyptic film opening. It opens on a woman with torn clothes walking on the side of the road, sorting through trash for food. She finds something expensive, we were suggesting a necklace, and drops it back down, showing that material things don't matter in this world. Theirs also propaganda posters scattered around her. This is set after a war, and Andrea wants to have a flashback, cutting from her as a grown woman eating trash to her as a kid eating food with her family.

The platform she suggested we use is How to get permission from a song.com, which checks if a song is copyrighted. 

Amanda

Amanda wants to do a coming-of-age/sports opening. The opening begins with a pro taekwondo player practicing in an empty gym. She's in class, about to do a hard skill, and fails, flashing back to when she was a kid having fun. She injures herself doing the skill, and the opening ends with her looking at her taekwondo medals. We suggested adding a filter on flashbacks of when she was a kid to show it was a different time. 

Carolina

Carolina wants to do a mystery. It opens with a woman in a mental asylum writing things on the walls. This is actually going to be her partner's garage that they use white panels for. There's going to be a flashback in which we learn she's actually a detective and was falsely accused of being crazy. 

The resource she suggested we use is The Ultimate Film Guide, which is an article on directing.

Eli

Eli wants to do a comedy/psychological thriller. A therapist in a dark room with only 1 other chair, with a single hanging light. She has crazy patients who all went through the same traumatic event, but are all saying vastly different things. It's going to focus on how the patients affect the therapist. In one scene, a patient is going to leave, and the therapist is going to take a deep breath before allowing the next patient in, showing the toll it takes on her. One suggestion was to base it on the 12 Monkeys movie. 

Jp

JP wants to do a thriller/action where a bully gets killed by the boy he bullied. With every stab the bully's victim takes theirs going to be a voice-over of a different insult. We suggested throwing a rock at the bully's head. 

Mateo

Mateo wants to do a mafia wedding opening where it's a wedding entrance for a mobster family, and they cut to a crime the person being introduced has committed that weekend. A narrator with elaborate on everyone's backgrounds.

Suggestions for my film opening

My character becomes paranoid after finding out he died, closing the blinds and locking all the doors.