Brainstorming Took a Turn😳

 Hello Blog!!

Hannah, again.  I am in class with my partner right now brainstorming ideas for our film introduction.  We spent about 30 minutes creating a google doc that we shared on our coming-of-age teenage film.  We brainstormed ideas left and right and finally came to terms with our failure- we had no interesting plot.  Our inspiration was the 90s or early 2000s themed introduction opening, however, we did not want to be unoriginal and base so much of our film off of other films in the past such as Clueless, Legally Blonde, and Princess Diaries.  We felt as though if we chose to do an introduction film based on this era it would not differ much from the great early 2000s films already out there.  We want to be different and we want our audience to be taken away by our production to the point where they wished we had an entire movie made, not just an introduction.  

Here is our google doc brainstorm of a Y2K theme!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n99_9Lf85z2FvL5Ff0UpsdgX2quay-oAJ8Y_pJn4pws/edit?usp=sharing

Turning a page, my partner and I have decided on "going with what we know."  I am an athlete that loves being outside.  My sport, soccer, is my getaway from any mental struggles I go through and any family arguments that may present themselves, even arguments with friends.  We are going to create a film that follows a track athlete around a track at school as she runs away and escapes her reality through her sport.  Our idea is that we will switch back from present to past.  The athlete running around the track will be thinking about her arguments, mental struggles, physical struggles as she is running.  We plan on using parallel editing to demonstrate this as well as the cutaway technique used to develop context and interrupt the continuous scene by inserting a separate shot (of the past).   When we show the past clips and the present, we plan on changing the filter or color of the shots.  The past ideas of negative arguments and altercations will be in a darker filter to create a dense and somber tone, whereas the present time on the track will be in a lighter light to demonstrate that track is the main character's get away from reality.  

The title may be called "Escape." ...

Our idea is unique and I believe it will capture an audience's attention as it relates to a young and youthful target audience that endures a lot of emotions growing up in high school.  

Cannot wait to see what our storyboard and layout sketches are going to ensue!

Thank you!

Hannah signing off ✌🏻