Portfolio Project: Pre-Production - Planning

     My project partner created a google doc so that we can begin to organize our ideas for what we want our project to be. It begun as a purely drama film, which we used movies like The Devil Wears Prada and Pretty Woman. Although, as we began talking about what we wanted the storyline to be, we added elements of mystery/thriller that I thought resembled stories like Gone Girl. This dip into thriller makes our story very unique is interesting in my opinion, and has made me very excited to begin blocking out the scenes that we want to film to bring our vision to life through our 2 minute opening.

    This Google Doc has allowed us to share and document our ides for the storyline and what elements and props we will need in order to complete the vision that we have for our story. We began by outlining who our characters were going to be in the film that effectively showcases both photography and fashion which are two very important topics for us that we wanted to include. We do this as a way of putting a little of ourselves into the characters that we will see on screen. We went on to strategically document what questions our opening will inspire in the audience that will encourage their want to keep watching. Having unanswered questions also lends itself to the thriller genre. We also depicted the conflict that we wanted to introduce in our opening that is the basis of what our main character will be facing throughout the duration of the film.