Yesterday we had our first group meeting in class. At first, I was a bit scared to see what others thought of my project but also excited to hear new ideas. I am so glad we were able to do this since I found it very helpful. I even took notes, that I will be inserting below to show my thought process throughout.
From this meeting, I got a lot of good suggestions to make my opening better and it really got me to think. From my classmates and even the lesson my teacher showed yesterday, I realized that not everything can fully be direct. To make things more interesting, I can not just give the details out, instead imply them or symbolize them. In this meeting, I also talked about how I really wanted to incorporate a lot of mise en scene to explain the sisters' dynamic and contrast.
Right after this meeting, during lunch, my team and I discussed a lot. Since my partners were meeting with other classmates we got different perspectives and opinions. We compromised and came to terms with a lot of things. We definitely decided to keep that the motive of Mara's death was from being blackmailed. Below I'll show some text messages of when our group came up with the idea. This is an idea we really liked and we will be keeping it in our project.
Now onto something I was suggested that my team will most likely add. I was told that instead of putting Mara's suicide letter just there as an element of mise en scene, we should show flashbacks and inserts of her writing it. In those moments we can also include a lot of fast cuts and blurriness as a way to show the turmoil going on in her head before she takes her life.
Having this meeting really helped me and I am so happy that I got to hear feedback from other people and other creative minds. This session helped me make my mind up on a lot of stuff and just floating ideas. Ill will be back soon with another blog, I really want to keep researching more openings as a way to find techniques and other little elements I like. See you all soon!
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