Preproduction: Developing Film

 Introduction

After our group established its intended audience, our crew member's responsibilities, and the film's cast/ characters, we began planning our film's logline (the phrase/ enticing summary of our film), a brief overview of our vision of that the plot would be, the setting, hook, our movies genre, and the tone it would establish. With that information, our group gained a basic understanding of the way we would produce our film, so that in future planning activities, we could refer back to this section and take note of our original ideas, while making changes to this section, if needed. Below, shows a table with the information of what to expect in our team's upcoming film. 

Develop a logline for your movie.
Protagonist  Inciting incident		Protagonist's goal:  Central conflict:
Mercedes  Has an obsessive friend		To retain a healthy friendship  Christine wants Mercedes to herself
Define the logline for your film. Ideas should be clear, concise, and enticing.
Logline: Mercedes has an obsessive friend named Christine and aims to keep a healthy friendship with her, even though Christine wants Mercedes all to herself.
Summary paragraph Of Film:     Mercedes has an obsessive friend (Christine), and only wants a healthy relationship with her, but does not know her friend wants her all to herself. This event takes place inside Piper Highschool’s campus, during school hours (7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.). Each opportunity Christine gets the chance to be in Mercedes' life, she takes advantage of that, because of her deep-rooted infatuation with her. One day after Mercedes and Christine crossed paths and bumped into each other in the hallway, they all went downhill from there. We introduce the severity of Christine’s lust for Mercedes is in the beginning shots of the film, the hook, where upbeat music plays in the background, but has a subtle unsettling undertone as Christine is shown chanting, “she loves me, she loves me not, she better love me,” which refers to Mercedes. Our film is meant to reflect the unnerving feeling of having a friend with ulterior motives, who is secretly obsessed with them (or a perception of them), which takes them in a down-spiraling path of doing whatever it takes to be around them, regardless of possible consequences. To add, our film challenges the convention of the protagonist being the first character introduced, and instead, our team attempted to show Christine’s intentions behind her actions towards Mercedes and those around her. This paradox of drama and complex human emotion is terrifying, not in the physical sense, but more in the psychological sense, as it holds a black mirror to the dark places of the human psyche of wanting to be wanted.