Group Meeting 2.0

 We had another group meeting and It went GREAT! In our group we had the following members:

• selena 
• santi
• camila
• isa 
• macie
• ethan

First was ethan and I worry for this kid's health... He's doing an entire stop motion production all by himself! I asked him of the challenges and he said he's been struggling with the lighting but claims he can get by. Now Do I believe him... no. BUT HEY! Nothing but luck towards that guy. His story has something to do with this guy going to space and having some sort of journey where he goes through a wormhole, etc. I don't know how much he's really showing but I think just the stylized element of it being a stop motion film is really cool. Someone just help this guy out, please!! For his CCR he had this idea to make it a 90's employee introductory video which on paper seems cool but I worry on how he plans on making it entertaining besides the fun 90's filter. Maybe he'll make it really cheesy with bad dad jokes in it, that could be funny (or painful.)

Next was Selena. Selena was a very prominent and active member in conversation, I appreciated her for being so involved in discussion, so I wanted to do the same for her. Her film has something elements close to mine in regards of message notification and the horror elements. She talked about using the "Send later" feature for notifications and having a bunch of notifications sent to her when shes on airplane mode so that when she turns it off, her phone is spammed with notifications. I thought these ideas were very cool, I took a mental note of them to use in my film. She needs like a creepy tall skinny figure in her film which is being played by her brother, which I advised her to use camera angles to make him look taller, as she said her brother is 5'11 (thats a whole foot taller than me but its not abnormally tall to be creepy, y'know?)

Next was Santi. I think his idea was like the second most coolest out of the whole group, talking about this doctor and how he had this medicine that went wrong and everyone who took it only had 48 hours left to live. It follows this main character who's trying to figure out how to save the world from this but the film is pretty dark! Like, apparently the doctor kills himself, poor guy! Santi says "he couldn't handle the pressure" and I felt a lot of empathy for this fictional doctor, played by santi's dad. SPEAKING OF SANTI'S DAD, I was really blown away by Santi's dad's profession, he's a sports news anchor! And he's like, famous apparently? He has a whole professional headshot and everything! AND, THEY HAVE A STUDIO! So like santi, this lucky son of a gun has a filming studio to do his project in. TALK ABOUT CONVENIENT! His dad also is going to play the doctor in this film, which I think is pretty cool, but I don't know how I would feel about killing off my papa in a film. My poor papa!

Camila followed after santi and her filming was at the beach, following this girl trying to get over the death of her sister. Her sister appears in the movie as a ghost which is gonna be done with editing, I think films with editing like that is really cool especially since we're all just little high schoolers with no budget and no professional editing skills, I'm excited to see her final project. For music, I recommended the use of wind chimes as they're very tranquil but also kind of faded and they could represent the memory of her sister. But the most thing was her meeting up to film at the BEACH! I LOVE THE BEACH! (as you can tell from my blogger page) I was so jealous!

Isabella was next and she didn't have much progress considering the account of actors she needed (which I wont lie, made me feel greatful on how simple my film was) but her film opening was certainly confusing for me. Maybe I'm just like stupid but I recommended that she made her film a little bit easier to understand the plot  through the opening. From what I understood it follows a cheer and a baseball guy who are in school but are also part of some drug scheme? And they're like spies? Maybe im mis-interpreting it but I think this is just one of those things that you'll get it once you see it, so I have hope for her. But she'll definitely need to be on crunch time with that film schedule. 

Last but MOST CERTAINLY NOT LEAST was Macie whose film opening is actually extremely creative and would be a movie i'd watch. It follows a janitor that finds an old magazine article with him on it, he gets confused and finds out he was part of a preservation project where he was frozen for 15 years, but suffered memory loss due to it so he doesn't remember what happened to him. The rest of the film is him trying to discover what happened to him with the government trying to stop him as the experiment was shut down and is trying to be covered up. I thought it was SO COOL how she made a whole MAGAZINE COVER for her opening, and she's really on top of her filming because she's like DONE! I wish i could be done, damn you sickness! She also gave a good site for finding music which is epedemicsound.com which I WILL be using.

I think all and all, these peoples ideas and everything they've done was so inspiring and makes me wanna keep going and persevere my film! No procrastination here!