Group meating #2.

Hi everyone! Yesterday in class we had our second group meeting with our classmates. These meetings are really interesting and help a lot when planning and deciding what you're going to do because you have outsiders who help you and give you useful ideas about your project and how to achieve what you're imagining. My group yesterday had six of us, including me. I was with Addison, Bella, Ishaan, Oliver, and Gustavo. Everyone was super friendly and cooperative. They gave very useful ideas, and we all got along quite well.

The first person to come and tell us about her project was Addison. She's going to make a psychological horror film. Their idea is this: a couple is in a car accident and the woman dies. That's the context for the first few seconds of the intro. Then they'll show us how the man's life continued after his girlfriend's death. They'll show everything in a dirty, chaotic mess to visually illustrate how it affected him. The guy was traumatized and sank into his own depression. We'll see him still looking at his wife, but through a mirror, to represent that he still hasn't gotten over his loss. The group suggested locations where he could film the accident scene. Gustavo recommended a street where he filmed a project last year.

Then Bella and Gustavo, who are working together on the project, came on. Their idea is to make a kind of comedy-action intro. Basically, it's about a spy or agent who's going to exchange briefcases with a bad guy, but the briefcase he gives her is empty, and they start fighting. They told us that the lead actress is going to be Bella and about the difficulties they had throughout the process, like having a problem with the actors playing the bad guy and having to find a new one. They also showed us super interesting details, like the spy's briefcase, which is different from the typical briefcase; the one they give her is a basic black one, showing the drastic change in her personality from fun to serious. I really loved that detail.

Then Ishaan spoke. He wanted to make a comedy film. His idea was like an intro with some suspense: a guy walking and suddenly getting scared by a car, but it's his friend, and then they start planning a trip with their group of friends. He showed us his logo, and I thought it was incredible, but we felt it was missing something, so we gave him a couple of ideas, like making it silver or gold, and we showed him how to do it. In the end, he liked it.

Oliver went next, and I found his idea super interesting. His film is going to be about a drug deal that ends in a kidnapping. It starts with an exchange, and at that moment, the buyer is kidnapped. Then we see him in captivity, and then he's killed. At that moment, a border on the wall, like a detective's, would be revealed, but instead of being a police investigation, it's a revenge plan to avenge a loved one of the kidnapper. At that moment, we would find out that there are going to be more victims. Oliver has already started filming and showed us a couple of scenes. The group gave him a few tips, like cutting certain parts and re-recording others. For example, there's a scene where you see the victim head-on, and we suggested they re-record it, but in a darker area, so it would still work with the live stream they were using because it was working really well.

Finally, it was my turn. I explained my idea and how I planned to do it, and they told me they liked it a lot and were interested, which made me very happy. They also asked me how I was going to record so many people and where I was going to do it, and I explained. They asked me how I was going to show that they were two different families, and I told them I was thinking of separating the tables, half and half, and they suggested I use colors to show it better.

Well, that's all for today. I really enjoyed this activity; I laughed and thoroughly enjoyed hearing all the ideas and different points of view. Thank you so much for your attention. Have a wonderful day. Bye.

XOXO. Isabella Fraire.