In our first group meeting we were able to talk to each other and share our ideas. The goal was to build off of each other, provide feedback, and help. We started off by sharing our genres that we chose, I noticed that the majority of the group chose thriller. We read each others blogs and talked about some positive and negative things we did to help us in our previous projects.
By sharing our plots and ideas, we helped each other fill in the gaps. For example, I was stuck between two title options for my opening, and I got my groups opinions. Most of them suggested I go with "Haunted Memories". This group activity helped me get feedback for my blogs and my ideas for the project so far. We all helped each other, Santina didn't know where to add her title in, and we collectively came up with a solution. We suggested she incorporates her title into the diary, which is her main prop. Instead of editing the title onto the screen, she can handwrite it in the notebook, she though this was really creative and liked the idea.
We had uplifting and constructive conversations flowing, where everyone was always chiming in. We related some of our ideas, and shared our reasoning's behind decisions.
(Group photo)
To help each other during the meeting, we shared a document and wrote critiques for each others plots and blogs. Under our names on the document we each shared our blog link, plot, setting, genre, title, and location. This is what we wrote...
Genre: Thriller
Setting to film: Park, or any house
Plot: Not sure about idea yet, has a couple options. Like relaxing at his house after a long day of work and he goes about his day. He then gets a phone call from a mysterious person, once he answers the voice says, “YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP! WAKE UP NOW BEFORE...” and then the man wakes up.
No title
Critique-Nicholas: Overall, solid idea, try to add more detail and make longer though.
https://nickminds.blogspot.com/
My name: Nicholas
Genre: Horror/Psychological Thriller
As of Monday, my group does not know what we are going to do but we have some ideas and some films we are inspired by.
Plot #1: One idea was a zombie apocalypse with 2 survivors in a forest running away from a monster on a dark, foggy night and they stop running after a couple seconds thinking they escaped. The 2 survivors start walking with the map they got of the park and then they suddenly hear the sound of something breaking but don’t think much of it. They suddenly hear a monster creeping up onto them and the scene would end with the zombie on top of the person about to eat them.
Critique: -Gabe, minimal running. Running is boring, no one wants to see running. Terrible idea.
Some films I am inspired by films like the shining, Halloween, and jaws as I really enjoyed these movies and would want to be created something like this
https://superawesomekidcook.blogspot.com/2025/02/researchanalyzediscuss-three-film.html
Name: Adil
Genre: Thriller
Plot: A godzilla inspired film, given by Stoklosa due to the fact that our group had no idea what to do. The setting takes place in a dark forest (Mark and park), story dynamic may be derived from Jurassic Park (T. Rex Escape scene) and how science will be humanities un-doing (Life finds a way) Take the new Jurassic world rebirth trailer for example, the new abnormality that is the main focus is a dinosaur called D-Rex/Deformed Rex. This can be a mirroring towards my film as my monster escapes from containment as scientists got too full of themselves and thought they had full control over the monster. (That is all the information as of now)
https://santinamp.blogspot.com/
Santina Moreno
Genre: Drama
Title: Dear Diary;
Plot: The main character is a girl who is very isolated and doesn't have a lot of friends, so when the last day of school ends, she goes directly home to find no one there either. During her car ride home, we want some non-diegetic music in the background and start the credit sequence until she goes into her room and closes the blinds, and the title appears. When the camera pans into the bed, the girl is going to be writing in her diary until her mom comes into her room and takes her out for some ice cream.
https://anasblogrincon.blogspot.com/
Genre: Thriller & Coming of Age
We don't have any title yet
Setting: At the beach during the sunset
Plot: A girl who just turned 21 and went to the beach to drink and celebrate her birthday with some people who she thought were her friends; (There's also a scene where she is in the car with her friends getting to the beach) she gets really drunk and one of her friends takes a picture of her lying on the sand and posts it online. The picture becomes viral, and her parents found out that she was in a bad state and no one was helping her.
Critique- Beatrice: I think your movie examples are good but maybe you should offer more analysis and responses with depth. This way you can learn more about how to use things and what to add into your opening. Maybe try to research more recently produced films, to have better examples.
Beatrice: my blog
Genre: Horror
-Plot: A girl gets cursed and is watched by a killer, she is trying to break the curse. The curse feeds on depression and can be broken with happiness and love. She is depressed because her mom passed away a while ago and ever since her dad has been taking out his anger on her, making their house unsafe and their relationship weak. When she gets cursed, we see a tattoo appear on her, its matching with the killer. The title will be seen when she's looking at herself in the mirror, distraught, after being cursed.
-Setting: house of the family
-Title: Haunted memories (?)
Critique- Santina: develop how she got the curse with a flashback
Gabe: add more depth on the curse
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