Group meetings 1-3 (Week 1)

Meeting 1:

We, my group and I, face-timed and went over our ideas that we hadn't had the chance to cover in our time slot in class. Tegan presented her idea about a Sci-Fi opening scene, where a groups of teenagers become gangs and fend for themselves since all the adults have disappeared and society has crumbled. I presented my idea on a 1950's serial killer, preparing for a date and cleaning his car as the narrative switched between him and his victim trying to escape to contrapuntal music. We all decided we wanted to explore the concept of murder and motive more and would like our opening scene to have it.

Meeting 2:

We decided on out two ideas, Tegan's 1950's tea party murder mystery (thriller), and Fin's espionage casino idea (action) as our backup. we narrowed it down based on what we think we could shoot and capture in the 1-3 minutes we had and with our limited experience and resources, eg: no car chases because it would be extremely hard to film, and no filming at night, because we only have a day to film and can't control the weather.

Meeting 3:

We had just previously met with our teacher to run over our idea, they pointed out two main problems.

1. It is very difficult to film in a specific time period.

2. It is hard to capture and conceptualize a poisoning, which was our original weapon of choice, as we though it fit the "tea party" theme well.

In our third meeting we decided that instead of having multiple people at a party, we would have only two people, so it became a date rather than a party. This was beneficial because we still aren't sure what will be allowed due to Covid-19 restrictions.

We also decided that the woman would kill the man with a gun rather than poisoning, of course now that it was a "first date" she needed a motive, so we created this idea that she wasn't really his date, rather, she had killed his date and was here to kill him too, because she was a serial killer.

We also decided than rather set it in the 1950's specifically, we would simply draw inspiration from the era and dress our actors in formal attire.

By setting this as a first date, we could use our peers as actors, rather than a married couple, which would've had to be adults.