Today in class I did somethings different than just work on my film. Everyone was separated into groups and we all had a meeting discussing our developing projects. I was surprised that everyone I spoke with had very different genres and unique storylines.
Of course, I had holes and issues in my film ideas from the very beginning when I wasn't 100 percent sure about the genre I was going to do. At first, I thought I wanted to do a post-apocalyptic kind of movie and ended up changing my topic to a slasher / horror kind of movie. Although I had to redo all my genre research by finding more similar movies, I still got an insight on a type of movie with a dark tone.
One important topic we discussed was where to include the title for our films, a lot of people were uncomfortable with putting the title somewhere in the middle or towards the end, so they believed it was better to have it at the beginning. Although I still want to put my title towards the end to create more effect of the plot in my film opening, it is still interesting talking to other people about their ideas or their perspectives.
Another problem I have right now is making my script, because I thought the script I made was way too short. I looked at example screenplays from real movies or past projects of this and they had about 2 pages, while I had much less. After discussing with my group, They said that your script could depend on how much happens in your story. I chose not to have dialogue in my film because I believe it is hard to represent realistic conversations on film. But I guess because there is no dialogue in my film, it is not a major problem if my screenplay is not as long as others. Overall, I believe today went well and helped give me new perspectives of what I can do in my film.
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