Reflection post about group meeting #1

    While in class the other day I got an amazing opportunity to receive feedback and on my ideas, what's inspiring me, and what I want to do for this portfolio project from my peers. I also, as well, got to give feedback to my classmates on what they have done so far. 

Giving Feedback

    When giving feedback I tried not to overdue it and change their whole production, especially when it came to projects that I am unfamiliar with as I would probably not give as much accurate information back to. I found myself discussing about a lot of romance, which is not something I am a huge fan on. Some girls chose to have a narrative type of opening, this meant that they would be voicing over what's happening saying what the main character is thinking. For this film I didn't know what I could give for feedback, so all I could think about was telling my group member not to forget about background noises and aspects, so it wouldn't be just a bland no noises, only talking type of audio playing. Which would negatively effect the final result of the production because, having this would most likely bore the audience. 

    A different group member had a different type of romance involve, one that is from enemies to lovers. The way they were going to do this is by having a minor frustration be how they meet. The example she had was the guy in the film takes the girls parking spot, although this is an inconvenience our table thought there wasn't much to build upon it. So we decided to make it based in a school and have the guy bump into her and make her spill her coffee, not only this, but we also suggested to make them have a class together which they loved.

    Another genre which was brought up was thriller. The idea was to have man find a pair of glasses which would give him the ability to see ghosts. Although this was a very creative idea there was a flaws in the storyline. The storyline at first was an FBI agent is at a crime scene investigating a murder, and the victim had glasses in which he picks up and sees a ghost through them. The issue is why would an FBI agent put on the glasses of a murder victim? So we had the idea to make it like visions of what happened and be able to communicate with the person that they are envisioning. Then we also suggested to make the visions happen whenever they touch a personal item of someone. Finally, we also like wanted to show that the person can see what happen and communicate with the ghost, so we suggested that the murder victim tell the FBI agent where the murderer went.

Receiving Feedback

    I started off by telling my plot to my group and what it was based around. They followed up by comparing a film to it. Then I told them about a lot of opening which I have researched on and some of my ideas and what our teacher thought about them. The concept of the film is that a man finds himself in a forest and proceeds to get stuck in some sort of loop where no matter how hard he tries and how hard he runs he cant escape it always ending up finding himself where he began. The idea we had originally is to have him get snuck up on and have him scream and end it there. Once that happens the screen turns black says the tittle and figure out what to do from there. The reason I believe we got told no by our teacher is because we have nothing to build on, the main characters appeared to have been "killed". This is true, but a girl in my meeting group said that we could make the film on how he got to that point. Then when the screen turns black and after the tittle is displayed we are ale to show a sentence that says "one year ago" and build it upon that.

    Overall I would say that the experience was amazing and that having your peers who are extremely open minded look at your work and give constructive criticism. Not only this but being able to gain inspiration from multiple film ideas is incredible as well. Not only this but you can find films that are similar to yours because of your group. For example, my group said that I should watch the film "In the Tall Grass", because it is really similar and it can inspire my group and I and can benefit our production.