Start of Portfolio Project

 Portfolio Project

Hey there Cambridge! This post will mark the beginning of my journey for my portfolio project and all my posts from here on out will be centered around this project. I am very excited to get started and come up with a creative plan for my 2 minute opening. Currently I am in between two possible genres: social realism/drama or thriller. Both genres are very appealing to me, but im leaning more towards social realism as of right now, however I know this may change in the near future.

If I were to choose the genre social realism, what I had in mind was to create a story about someone growing up in poverty with many struggles. The only problem is that I do not live in a poor environment, rather my environment is unironically the opposite. So this would be hard as the location would not quite suffice for the opening.

On the other hand, if I were to create a thriller film opening, the location would work either way as it is not as relevant to the plot of whatever film I would choose to create.

Aproach

My first step to starting this project is to figure out which genre I am going to be going with. After I confirm which one I will commit to work on I will try to watch multiple examples of films from the category of genre I will be creating. For example, if I choose to commit to the social realism genre, I will begin analyzing dramas like "kitchen sinks". Looking at pre-existing films in this genre will help me learn how to build my location and sense of place at the beginning of the opening.