Peer Feedback

Today we did a peer feedback activity in class to receive input from classmates about our ideas for the portfolio project. I explain our ideas and storyline to my group, supporting it with the research we made. They all thought it was really good, but it was too much for the opening scene and could cause some confusion.  One thing they really liked was the idea of keeping the woman's identity hidden completely. One of the people in my group noted that it would require an extensive amount of editing to achieve what we wanted to do so we might want to space out our workload as much as possible. They proceeded to bounce ideas back and forth to help me better develop our story or come up with a different way to present the story.

After some brainstorming, they helped me develop a new storyline which I instantly liked because it felt me put together than our original idea. The opening scene would take place in the woman's house, in a dark room where she hangs up pictures of men that have an "X" marked on their faces, indicating they were her past victims. Her face is never shown but her red nails are clearly portrayed, which would be her signature feature. The scene would then shift into a normal day where a woman joins a man on a date but neither of their faces are ever shown. and they clank wine glasses and the camera focuses once again on her hands, revealing it's the same woman from before. We remain hiding her identity but we have something that distinguishes her.

In this story, she would be a serial killer, which doesn't follow the genre conventions of wife-killing-husbands movies but I believe it will be an interesting choice since these types of movies don't have specific guidelines like other types of suspense movies do. It's based on the idea of a black widow, which everyone understands.