First Team Meeting!

Today in our media class, Lauren, Callie, and I (aka Llama Productions) had our first official team meeting! We brainstormed many ideas for our film opening. We went back and forth with a couple of topics that we wanted to focus our film opening on. We felt very defeated because we could not immediately come up with any great ideas for our film. Instead of trying to immediately come up with an idea, we decided that we would start broader and first just pick a genre first.

We talked through each film genre and listed pros and cons of how we could make an idea for each genre come to life. We went through the genres of horror, drama, and comedy. The pros for horror included that we could have an effective opening that could foreshadow future events in the film. However, we do not have the means to create a great film opening for horror because we do not have access to special effects or sets that would be crucial elements of horror films. The pros of drama included that it was very broad and we could include elements of other genres within the film. We could not think of any cons for the genre of drama, which persuaded us to highly consider it for our film. Lastly, we discusses the genre of comedy. The pros were that it did not have to include any complex elements and could be made with materials and locations available to us. However, the script would have to be really funny and we were not sure we would be able to come up with a humorous enough script that would effectively set up the film as a whole.

We eventually settled on drama as an umbrella topic for our video. We decided that there are many subgenres within drama that we could end up leaning towards, but overall we all agreed on wanting to create some kind of plot that revolves around drama, most likely also including elements of suspense. The other important decision that we agreed on in our meeting is that we wanted the film to be about teenagers. With the broad genre of teenage drama, we are thinking of focusing our film on suspense but we are not quite sure we want to go in that direction until we can come up with a great idea for the plot.