Project: 2nd group meeting

The people in my group are selena, santi, camila, Isa, Macie, and Andre. 

Andre: A bit into the group meetings, I was put into another group to further balance out the room since some people were gone. So I missed much about Andre's idea, but I know she is working with Trisha who is making the horror robot idea from the last meeting. She also discussed using text messages as the credits, which I think is a very creative idea. 

Selena: For me, Selena has one of the more unique ideas. She has not started filming yet but she does have a pretty vivid idea of what she wants. She is making a horror opening of a creepy thin man under a spotlight in a dark parking lot. Kinda like slenderman. The thin man will be acted by Selena's brother, who is 5'11". But the other people in my group suggest she try to make the figure look even taller using camera angles. 

Although I do think she should try to forgo the texting idea, where the main female lead gets a bunch of text messages. I feel like text messages is a bit cliche. 

Selena said she would try to get a park ranger to accompany her and her group so they can film in a parking lot past late. Although I would have suggested she try to research into more parking lot locations to film at, like a closed publix or walmart. 

Santi: Santi's idea is pretty complicated and kind of all over the place. His idea is about a doctor who releases a deadly medicine that gives people 48 hours to live once ingested, and a random guy named Maverick goes out to save everybody. He would show Maverick typing on his computer in a over the shoulder shot. 

Filming started on Friday, and it is impressive the set up Santi has since his dad is a sports anchor, so he has his own little studio to use. It is a really good place for shooting and even making a podcast for the CCR. 

My one bug though is that I heard before from one of Santi's group mates that he was not really on board with the idea. It appears that Santi is mainly the visionary or director, but his groupmate did seem very unsure about the film idea. I hope Santi and his group resolved this problem, and are all on the same page.

Camila: Camila is working with a another group member who explained the idea much better. Camila appears to just be an assistant. The idea is of a girl who tries to overcome her grief over her dead sister. 

Because I discussed this idea in my previous meeting post, I am not going to discuss this idea much, but I do really like the simple yet effective idea since so far, I have not heard anyone else do this type of idea. 

I also really like the idea of the film opening beginning with just the title, and only accompanied by the sound of waves. And sound appears to play an important role since Camila and her group mate were very specific with the sound. They are using Imovie, which I am a bit worried about since Imovie, at least from phone, makes some really low quality videos. But Camila and her groupmate are using a very high quality camera so hopefully it'll work out. 

Isa: Isa appears to have the biggest problem of scheduling since she said how it is hard to get the cheerleader and football actors together since the football guy is always playing his games. The idea is about a cheerleader and jock smuggling drugs. 

Addressing the main problem of the actors being together to film, I wonder if Isa should have gotten a different actor. I get the respect of authenticity to use an actual football player, but if the guy is not available most of the time then maybe it would be better to just have a tall broad actor than an actual football player.

I really like Isa's idea of making one of those sticker board interviews where the people being interviewed peel off stickers on a board to reveal the questions. Honestly I don't see anyone else who thought of this idea.

Macie: Macie has the most thought put into production. Her story is basically about a janitor finding someone frozen while cleaning. I was very impressed with Macie's production of a magazine showing the advertisement for the cryo-freeze sleep. I like Macie's simple yet interesting premise, relying less on a complicated plot and instead on interesting concepts and world building. 

I don't have much to say about Macie except maybe expand more on her simply plot, but then again the plot for my film is very simple too so...