Day 4

We got transferred to a new room today. We were shown excerpts from two more documentaries- Capturing the Friedmans and Bowling for Columbine. While Capturing the Freidmans is made out of Cloverfield-style video footage and family photos, Bowling for Columbine involves more of director's hands-on experiences and interviews. Two rather diferent styles...Anyway, after that, our lecturer gave us the outline of today's class: What is our format going to be like, what is our graphic style, what's going to be in our Powerpoint presentation on Tuesday (basically, everything we've discussed), and what is our theme/message/objective. So, being very hardworking, my group got down to serious business. We assigned roles first; Joel is to be in charge of equipment and being scribe, Marj is our group leader and other scribe, Kezia helped with rough sketches/storyboards, while to also help with the editing/software/technical stuff and me, to deal with the editing/software stuff. We will also help generate ideas. Finaaly came up with group name: Press to Exit (after getting inspiration from that exit button next to the door). During discussion, this is what we came up with:

Intro/Opening: Apparently, no one approved of my 'rotate out from black and then have dancing caricutures' idea; they say save it for conclusion. I then came up with the story-like idea of having the first few shots like trailing Marj as she walks into school. Then slowly, Kez and Joel threw some bits in and then, we decided....first part of opening, have flashing photos of projects, to give something like a preview. Then, the shots after that will have three of us going to school in different ways, with the fourth member waiting in a classroom. Rather movie-style.

Format/Body: Something like a group interview, where the interviewer's voice is heard but he/she is not seen. Interview, bits of flashbacks, present modules, heckle one another, candid moments, yadda yadda...

Conclusion: Dancing caricutures and flying titles against black. Enough said. May put a video at the side, like they do in movies, when the credits roll...

That's all for now. *yawns* Have no class tomorrow, but have group meeting at 9am. Hope to 'chiong' everything before presentation on Tuesday...something tells me I should give up, something tells me I should listen, something tells me I have to let go...