Day 7

 Today we met up with different people around the class to discuss about our openings and try to suggest ideas for each other. Turns out that me and Cyrus' plan sounded really good to the rets of my group that consisted of Lorenzo, Cindy, and Samantha. They had awesome ideas too. 

Lorenzo wants to make a Drama picturing drug addiction, what is cool about his story is that like the movie he referenced, (Beautiful Boy, he plans to show how drug addiction affects those around you rather than how it just affects yourself. He plans on showing his main character as a kid and then cutting to them in present time doing drugs to show how extreme the addiction has gotten. He plans on expanding further on this and we suggested to him to focus on his make-up and mise-en-scene elements since with the right choices he can really depict how addiction has affected his main character. 

Cindy is doing a fantasy and romance movie based on a not very popular Chinese myth about how people that are soulmates are connected by a string on their pinky. What is very cool about this story is that it has a mix of live-action and animation throughout her animation. She intends on starting with an animation explaining the myth and how it is supposed to work. The whole basis of the story consists of an anomaly to the myth and it dives deeper into why they don't have a string like everyone else, but they find someone like them. What I thought was very well integrated was the representation of mental health struggles that will be portrayed by the two main characters. I just think that the animation aspect of Cindy's film is so cool and think it plays in very nicely with her genre and her overall story. 

Last but not least, Samantha is doing a psychological thriller based on a new artist that is obsessed with everything about an older artist that has a sad story. The old artist was respected and admired by many but he was usually never the winner, he was used to getting second place. This causes inner conflict in the artist as he starts becoming obsessed with being first and a winner. This causes them to lose all they have and drives them to destroy all of their work, when this happens though, the artist collapses showing that they have destroyed themselves in the process. I was very impressed with Samantha because she is very ahead of everyone else, her color palette matches her story beautifully. She is worried about running out of time but we all talked about how she can try splitting the 2 minutes into 1:30 seconds for the old artist and 0:30 seconds on the new one. 

I was pretty satisfied with the feedback I got back from them, they also agreed that the parallel story idea was the better option. They also agreed on the location for our main characters' "gym" being the garage. I pitched to them some shots Cyrus and I want to integrate which includes a slow motion medium shot of our main character training showing the hard work he's putting in as drops of sweat come off his body. I also mentioned the way we wanted to end the opening with a two-shot of our characters ending their trainings, hinting to them possibly meeting in the future.