Group Meeting Notes

    Hiii, in class today we had a group meeting and it honestly went really well! My group and I were very successful at giving each other feedback and suggestions. Below I'll attach the notes we took during the meeting and I'll go deeper into detail later on. Fair warning, our notes are a bit scattered because our main focus was on listening to each other and not necessarily taking notes but, we wrote down the important stuff by splitting up the notes into general information, concerns, and suggestions. 

Emi: worked with Joaquin and Andrew

• Dark comedy short film 

• Critique of power struggles

• Gore 

• Makes a deal to get power

• Statement about joining religions for power

• Completes task for devil, loses humanity at the end 

• Script is finished

Concerns: 

• Location filming

Suggestions: 

• 1 death (instead of 3)

• Film at markham park 

• Make your own symbol (instead of the pentagram)
  
  

Adriana Vega: working with David 

• Comedy short film 

• Guys teleports by flipping a penny

• Everytime he goes somewhere new he tries to do a kind act and it backfires

• Researched other shortfilm

• Interested in using fast cuts

Concerns:

• Scheduling

Suggestions: 

• End with David completing a kind act but when he tries to teleport again he drops the penny down a drain/sewer

Aneesa Bajaj: Working with Quinn, Nico, and Zach

• Meta dark comedy 

•  Heavy on breaking the fourth wall

•  Camera starts on initial subject and falls in love with another subject, subject 1 tries to win back its attention

Concerns: 

• Developing storyline and it making sense

Suggestions: 

• spotlight turning off on main subject 

• mic turning off of main subject

• -give context to studio setting 

• -casting call (actor desperate to get role)

 

Victoria Duque:working with Kenna and Renn

• Coming of age 

• Message: even through fears and stress, you keep growing

• Girls plants seed, life gets stressful, she forgets about it

• Using a sign to show day 1 day 2 etc

• plant= metaphor 

• Friendship breakup (friend gave her the plant) 

Suggestions: 

• End with voice over

• Bus 3 different plants to show the growth of the plant

• Focus pulls 

• Use calendar to show days passing

• Weeks instead of days

• Camera is calendar- writing on camera 

Mariana Aldana (Me ****): Working with Audrey

• Drama short film 

• Boy has older sister whos excited to go to college

• The guy is very laid back 

• Starts with a therapy session 

• The  

Suggestions: 

• Quick death 

• Ideally have an adult play therapist 

• Maybe car crash

• Younger 

• Not dd 

• Therapy a year later

• Put date on bottom

Fabiana Castillo: Working alone

• Psychological thriller short film 

• Guilt is getting to him after killing girl

• He’s going crazy 

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Suggestions: 

• Give context at the beginning - like crash and show year of crash and then year 

• Dead person is signified by item specific to them

• Time doesn’t pass

• Hes like bipolar so he writes the notes himself and just through the movie show the different personalities 

• Limited dialogue 

• Fractured movie 

• Two different crips for the ideas 

Daniela Gonzalez: working with Gaby

• Music promo 

• Annie Lemasters 

• Taylor swift, olivia rodrigo vibes 

• Dramatic vibe  

• Story based 

• annie in nashville

• Story will be fully acted out 

• Build up to running on the beach at the end (sitting on beach, walking, then running.)

    I know it looks pretty disorganized by I promise the meeting was super helpful although it made me realize that Audrey and I have a LOT to figure out. So, first and foremost I began by sharing the idea of the film to the group, they all really enjoyed but all collectively agreed that the plot that we were originally going (the sister going off to college and disappearing from there) for might be hard to to develop in such little time and it might be more suitable to change it to the sister dying from something such as a car crash. Funny enough, Audrey and I had originally thought about that in the very beginning of our planning but ultimately we decided that it might be too hard to portray a car crash. However, my group made a really good point that we could work around the idea by having the parents receive a phone call or somehow finding out instead of physically showing the car crash.

    One concern I had was the time jump between the therapy session and the 'flashbacks' specifically how to make it obvious to the audience that these are two completely different moments in time. My group suggested that I could physically show the date by having it place in a corner making it clear that these are two completely different time periods. However, Thinking about this I decided it might look better if instead of putting the date in the corner it will be right in the middle of the screen in the vest first therapy scene and slowly fade off and then once the 'flashbacks' start do the same thing but with the corresponding date. 

    Anyway, I'm excited to see what Audrey and I decide on and hopefully script writing will start soon!