Hey blog! Today my group and I started brain storming for the plot/story of the film opening. we are having some trouble coming up with ideas. The re-occurring problem that we were running into was that the duration of the opening was only two minutes, and all of our ideas were too complicated to fit into a two minute opening. The two minute maximum for the opening forced us to constantly change the ideas. It challenged us to condense whatever we could by cutting out unnecessary parts from the plot. If it did not help pull the plot of the story along then it wasn't included into the story. My group and I looked to the film the mid 90s for inspiration. The movie is about how a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop so we have an idea of the direction we went to go toward!
Hey blog! so in the last post I told you guys about the project and the general direction we wanted to go. so i this post i want to talk about some plot aspects. while we don't have whole opening put together just yet, we know some aspects we want to introduce. The conflict in the story is character vs. character and character vs. self. The first conflict is because we want to display the main character having a bad time where he lives due to an abusive situation at home. we looking to add some actual arguing or fighting into the opening to create that feeling of a chaotic, broken household. The second conflict is the character vs. self because we plan to incorporate a problem the main character has with himself and how he deals with the problem through skateboarding. we chose the genre of drama therefore we plan to incorporate some conventions into the opening. drama movies capture real life scenarios. Dramas mainly focus on the main character. we plan to do just that in our op...
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