What to do, what to do...

After we decided what genre our film should be in, we brainstormed over the weekend to see what ideas we could come up with. We discussed our ideas on Sunday to begin our planning. Alexia came up with a very original idea for our film, telling the story of a woman who killed her cheating husband and is seeking revenge on his lover. The sequence of the opening would be as followed: It begins with a black screen and then a clanging of church bells introduces the scene to a gothic church, with a focus on the bells. Then the camera shifts to a woman's shoes, her heels, as you hear them clanking on the floor. Then a woman dressed in all black with a veil over her head is pictured walking into a church to the funeral of her husband. Within the people there, the lover of the husband is highlighted and the wive's expression changes once she sees her, hinting that she's seeking revenge. Alexia also thought to incorporate flashbacks of the wife catching the husband cheating on her as a parallel to the funeral to hint as to why she would have killed him.

After we discussed, I pointed out that we might have to change the funeral into maybe the wife visiting the grave of the husband and seeing the woman there because it will be very hard to make a funeral scene. In addition, I think that the flashbacks give too much away in only the first scene, which we want to avoid since our film is supposed to be suspenseful. 

I came up with a different way to develop the story, which would follow the woman going to church but into a confessionary as it parallels to the crime scene of the death of the husband. The confession would be muted and will be replaced with music to add tension. The plot would be different since it would follow a woman who is actually a psychopath who makes men fall in love with her and then kills them, a black widow. However, this idea is a lot more complex and it's hard to hint the plot without giving it away since it's supposed to be the major plot twist since she'd be pictured as a normal person.

We still haven't decided what plot we will follow so we will each develop our ideas more to see what works best for the film opening to be successfully made. In order to film, we plan to use the resources of the company that came into our class to see if we could borrow their equipment. We also will utilize audio effects to enhance the quality of the scene and WeVideo or iMovie to edit our footage.

We will hopefully decide on our story within the next few days to create our story board and begin filming. We will also begin to look for potential actors, especially for our main character. We are excited to make our ideas into reality!