Group meeting #1

Group meeting    

    This week our teacher made us do this thing called a group meeting, where a bunch of people from the class got together in groups of 5-6 people to discuss each other's projects and help each other out. My teacher made it so nobody that's working together in the film opening would be together during the group meeting, and this is so that after all the group meetings are done, me and my partner can come back and we can share our different feedback. I think this is really smart because I got to hear a lot of feedback from my group members about my ideas, and they gave me some ideas, which I am for sure going to add into my film opening. The entire goal of the meeting was to get a concrete idea of what I was going to do for the film opening.

    Going into the meeting I already had a vision but it lacked details. The film opening would start with a tv news broadcast where a news reporter says something like "18 year old boy named ___ has been found dead", then It would cut to a slow zoom out and we see a mysterious guy in a mask watching tv then he leaves. The guy in the mask then cleans and organizes his stuff like knife and all his equipment and puts them all in place. 

    My idea was good but wasn't enough, and I still had doubts, like how can I make it more mysterious, and how would I incorporate the credits and title in an artistic way that wouldn't look so forced? One of the members in my group suggested that I should use the TV broadcast more, like have the TV reporter say, "He has multiple stab wounds," and then the scene cuts to a knife on the table with the credits. Like the credits next to each hint or clue. I believe I can add more, like having the reporter say, "The victim was seen wearing a blue hoodie," and the scene cuts to the killer washing a blue hoodie, and more cuts similar to that.

    Another group member suggested that having the killer wear a mask inside his house is pretty dumb because why would someone be wearing a mask inside his own home. She suggested that I should play with lighting to add a shadow across the killers face to make his identity a secret without forcing the mask. For me this will be a bit difficult to do because it takes a bit to understand lighting and figure out the perfect angles, but I do think that this extra effort will make the movie opening 10X better.

    I think that my opening will be a establishing shot of an apartment complex at night then will cut to a hallway where a man will enter his apartment and when he closes the door the title will apear. Then the door will open and it transitions into someone at a crime scene reporting and talking about the murder. Then it will cut to the tv broadcast playing on someones tv then will slowly zoom out and face the killer. Then as the scene goes on the tv reporter will talk and describe the scene of the murder and say, "The victm has many stab wounds", "The suspect was seen in a black hoodie and was wearing some grey sneakers". Then it will cut to a table and we will ad close up shots of all these items with the credits right next to the item for example a knife thats bloody, the knife after its cleaned, The victms wallet with a picture of his id, some grey sneakers, a black hoodie ect.

    When I started this group meeting I though it was going to be a boring usless activity, but now that im done im realizing hiw important and good it was for me in this film opening. I got so much great suggestions and have a solid idea to build off of. I think for me this group meeting was a succes and now im ready to start developing a script and hopefully start filming by the end of the week.