First Group Meeting

 Group Disscusions

Group Members

Benjamin : In between wanting to do a thriler film about a guy walking down the street and sees a random phone ringing or a social realism film which he does not know what would be about yet.

My Feedback: I told him that he should stick the the thriller genre and go with the idea he is doing now because the idea is solid, all he needs to do is fugure out who is calling on the phone and then developing the rest of opening will be easy from there.

Sebastian: wants to do a psycho drama about a teen who is struggling with depression and or anxiety. The friends of the character will play a big part in his life.

My Feedback: I told Sebastian he should figure out what the depression of this character will be rooted from and create a backstory for it because without that piece of information, the viewer will be confused as to why the character is depressed.

Python: wants to do a scifi/ thriller film, more on the scifi side. the plot is about a person who creates glasses that can make him see into the future. and he sees his death 5 days later.

My Feedback: I told him that he should be careful with this idea because it sounds like it is a lot of editing and he should be prepared to film something like that.

Emily: Boy and girl who are dating in a car, gets a phone call, but does not pick up, pulls over and writes on a note and shows it to his girlfriend, but the audience does not see the note. the note will put a shocked face of the girlfriend.

My Feedback: I told Emily that she should try and stretch out this idea because it sounds like it is a very short idea and could be filmed in 30 seconds.

Clara: Wants to do a thriller film about a guy in a garage who is tied up in a chair who was kidnapped.

My Feedback: No feedback for her.

Feedback I Recieved

The Idea that I gave my group was to do a drama film about a teenager growing up in a poor setting and deals with many problems like smoking. My plan was to begin the film showing a lighter being lit and the teenager smoking a cigar. The obvious problem with this idea was that teenagers obviously cannot smoke cigars, so this idea would pretty much be illegal to film. But my group members gave me some advice and told me that instead of me actually smoking the cigar, it can just cut instantly to me putting the lit cigar down into an ash tray instead of actually smoking it.