Postproduction: First Draft Feedback- "Through Her Eyes"

 Introduction

Welcome dream team! Today in class, our production team presented our first draft to our instructor to gain new insights and words of advice from her to improve the quality and production of our film. Numerous advantageous tips were given to us, which gave us a clearer vision of what we originally had in mind, and better ways to express the message that we originally wanted to portray to our audience which was to: be mindful of surroundings consistently, mental health neglection could bring harmful consequences to everyone, and as Maya Angelou says, "when someone shows you who they are, believe them!" To add, our instructor gave additional perspectives that we intend to later apply to our film during our editing process, regarding the filters, sound, dialogue clarity, and music of our film, as well as a different title (which would suit our movie better) and a title cover that would match the atmosphere of our film as opposed to a black screen with text of our movie title. Considering her words, we jot down notes of the key changes that she recommended, which we would then begin improving our film after coming back from our spring break away from our school, as we would be refreshed, energized, and prepared to embark on our journey to the final stage of our filmmaking process (post-production). Below displays images of the main points that were covered during our discussion with our instructor. 

Idea Change: The Beginning of "Trust Fall"

 Introduction

Welcome Cambridge dream team! After a recent class period discussing our film's idea with our peers, it was apparent that during the weekend, a member of our production team, Marley B was sparked with immediate inspiration, and shared her epiphany with us by suggesting a new idea for our film. Due to our production team's deep consideration of possible issues and challenges we would face if pursued our original idea of a mind- controlled populated schools controlled by the school's teachers, security guards, and administrators, Marley figured that if we took a much simpler, yet powerful route to our film, we would be sure to resonate and effectively communicate to our audience. Ultimately, our group including our instructor concurred with her suggestion. Her idea proposed that we create a film about a lesbian stalker who faces a series of challenges such as rageful outbursts, intensive stalking, photographing and pasting numerous images of her love interest across her bedroom walls, recording videos her love interest, furiously mumbling to herself when she would not get her way, and having her love interest grow anxious in her presence, as a result.

REFLECTION  

It is notable to add, that upon presenting this new idea to our instructor prior to finalizing our decision, she constructively added her two cents to our pitch. She shared her favors for our idea, and encourage us to emphasize juxtaposition in theme music in our film to signify horror, to take reference from film openings similar to ours, and she offered a helpful example of the film opening of the 2014 film titled, "It Follows." Furthermore, we left our discussion with her feeling inspired and more prepared to strategically use semiotics, music, and representation of psychosis through an obsessive stalker to depict a captivation, anxiety inducing experience of being stalked. This would result is an interesting mixture of the drama and horror genre, which is what we intend for our film to portray, and we look forward to planning for our film while referring to the insights offered to us by our instructor and amongst our team members.