Group Meeting! (Part 2)

     The group meetings are when every student in class is assigned to 4-6 people groups to talk about what they have so far and give or receive advice. This time around, though, I didn't get much advice in the group meetings in class, but instead, I gave advice out. I'll be discussing the notes I took from the meeting and the advice I gave or didn't give.

Bella Montanari:

She's working in a group with two other people called Victoria and Juan. Their movie is about a woman who matches with men on online dating apps and goes on dates with them. If she finds flaws in them during the date, she kills them because she's a psychopath. Obviously, their genre is horror, and their title is Manslaughter. I LOVED the title; I thought it was so clever. She showed me clips of their opening, which consisted of one of the said dates where she kills a man. It looked great and I had no notes about that except that maybe it would be helpful to define her motive a little more clearly. Where did this psychopathic behaviour stem from?

Santiago Racca:

Santiago is working by himself, like me, and he made a suspense/thriller movie opening. His plot is about a man who is kidnapped and tries to escape but can never. He gets kidnapped over and over again, no matter how cleverly he finds his way out of that basement. I didn't get much else about the plot, but the opening was phenomenal. His mom did outstandingly realistic bloody makeup on his face, and the lighting perfectly set the tone. The whole thing was just really well done. Respect!

Benjamin Marchan:

This one was different from the past two. Not in a bad way, but not in a great way either. He hadn't filmed anything at all and didn't have much of an idea when it came to plot, so he got a lot of help there. His movie is a sports drama titled Offseason. He had an idea of what the opening was going to look like. Two best friends getting ready for a football meeting in the offseason to practice would be shown in a series of cutaways. I suggested that maybe the conflict in the movie could be that one of the best friends is logical and the other is immature, and they grow to have disagreements. The movie would be about friendship and commitment through the big fights. I thought this would add a nice meaning behind the football theme because football players have to get through the pain and keep playing no matter the condition. For his credits, I suggested he use lots of physical anchors. This meant having the credits written on objects on screen because it gave a more physical feel to the sports aspect.