Brief but productive

This past week in film class, we met for a short while but achieved a lot. Katie and I laid out the basic plot structure for the new idea and bullet-pointed the key issues within the film. We also bounced around the idea of writing up character "identities" in which we type up a background for each character in our film (based upon us, since we are the filmmakers and our film is about filmmakers). Then the idea was to give the background to each person in our group as a basis for which qualities to highlight. I've found that after two completed, unused screenplays, our group works best with guidelines rather than exact instructions (as far as dialogue goes anyway). As far as the setting, we plan to shoot the rest of our film in a dorm room with the four of us (everyone beside Tommy, who will be running the camera) serving as the main actors. A large portion of our movie will be filmed in a dorm room since the main focus is the sequence of events that occur during the idea process of making a movie (highlighting the stress and irritation involved) and not exactly about where it is that the characters are/go.

After we finished laying out the structure of the film we scheduled the next film shooting and then second checked our ideas (as far plot layout and settings) with everyone in the group. With everyone’s approval on the details of the film, I think the pick-up shot days will go smoothly (especially in comparison to last week). While there is still a lot of work to be completed and the filming process has been slow, the rest of the process should be very productive now that we have a concrete idea and excitement surrounding it.