Group meetings #1- Cambridge Portfolio Project

We concluded with the first group meetings, and I have to say I am not impressed but I need to seriously reconsider my whole project and what course I have to take it to.

This is the following list they made about the things pointed out and things to improve my project:

• Proper casting  
• Lighting can be used to your advantage 
• Too much for the film opening 
• Introduces murderer 
• More specific on what the blog post is about for each post 
• Movie color vibe yellow 
• More personality 
• Doesn’t know whether if character is expecting it or not 
• Somewhat generic 
• Needs something unique that sets it apart 

In addition, they added that the whole idea is very generic, which thinking in retrospective, they are certainly right. It is not a very unique and original murder story, so I most probably have to change the whole thing in order to create the best final copy possible.

After looking for alternatives, I got caught up with the movie "a quiet place"(2018), and came into my mind a maybe better alternative idea.

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I can just start with the action, instead of driving the audience to the tragedy. The story can start taking place in the garage, with very little to none lightning and the character, "tom", wakes up in the garage, covered in his own blood and tied up from bottom to top and his mouth strapped. It must be a very vivid image of both really sweaty and having a really stressful time.

After that, "Roy", comes into scene, and kills his friend in front of him. This scene is not directly scene, but instead the killing is portrayed by sound and a close up of tom's face expressing fear and desperation.

Then the scene ends with the leaving of Roy and the dead body revealed, and then a moaning sound from Tom like trying to shout but unable to. The camera fades into the outside of the House and the scream goes on as the title of the movie appears. After that, to let the audience know they are actually friends, a flashback will appear where the three of them are in a house, about to go to a party. The music is in a speaker and they are in a room just getting dressed and talking, which shows their friendship. as they are about to leave, the movie cuts and the opening finishes. 

The idea is to introduce the idea differently, and the movie is supposedly to go back in time and show how did they end up in that situation.

Colors, and especially facial expressions must be a key to the project, as a lot of aspects must be understood and not seen due to my lack of resources compared to what a major production company may have,

Sounds will be a key and especially the sounds coming from tom as his friend is being killed. Foley here will play an essential role as the moaning is the heart of the film to express the sentiment to audience, and respectively must be heard loud and vivid.