EDITTINGGGGGGGG

 Hi blog!!!! 

So my partner and I have officially started editing, and before I'd start telling you about her editing process, I'm going to tell you about another little hole in the road we had ran into.....

So Jake's father no longer wanted to help us due to some complications in scheduling, so we had to improvise rather than having a park ranger. We decided what if there were multiple figures and they were haunting Claire individually until they teamed up. We felt that it was the best idea we could come up with in the short amount of time that we had, and I expressed my feeling that this could create a more of a suspenseful storyline for the rest of the story. However, obviously, this is just the opening; it would be left on a cliffhanger. So last minute, we were able to grab two of Jake's friends and my younger brother, who is tall and skinny (I know... crazy my YOUNGER brother is taller than me...), to help us by being our mysterious figure. We had them wear all black and stand under different lighting positions, which you will see later on in the editing process.

Anywhooooo

This is me editing our first few shots, which will later become our credit scene.

Then I remembered CRAP I have to put our production logo video!! So after getting that downloaded and into Clipchamp, I added that at the beginning and included some more shots. LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT WE HAVE SO FAR!

Small Update :)

 GREAT NEWS! WE ARE CHANGING SETS

After discussing the issues with the park closing with my partner and some other classmates. We agreed that we are going to need a new set, which isn't entirely hard, which is a good thing. Due to what we already have filmed is deep in a wooded area thats all we needed. The rest is filmed outside the woods. So all we would need is a Parking lot with a somewhat secluded section with trees to film her "coming out" of the words. That's when one of our peers, Kai recommeded us where he filmed part of his opening, which he claimed was a good spot for what we were describing. I will insert a picture below. Also big PLUS, we will not be in a crunch for time because it is in the back of a church, meaning there is no closing time. As for the park ranger, we realized that Jake's father looks a lot like a park ranger, and we would just have to get him a costume. SOOOO there is, in fact, always light at the tunnel, and I'm really glad we were able to find a solution and continue our shots and plot seamlessly. 

Quiet on set...... ACTION!

HIIII BLOG! GUESS WHAT!! We began filming

We have officially begun our production process for our portfolio project last night! It was so fun and exciting, it feels legit, and I'm so happy to be working on this. We weren't able to finish filming, which is okay because we plan on going back today. 

However..... there was a small obstacle....

The Tree Tops Park, which is our set location, closes a little bit earlier than intended. We arrived at 6:30, and the sun was fairly down, which was what we were looking for because it very gradually got darker through each shot. This is what we intended because it makes the reader feel they are observing it in real time due to the changes of light as the sun goes down. Now time for the bad part :( We were only able to film the very beginning, maybe the first 30 seconds, due to the park closing earlier than intended. We only had 30 minutes. So if anything, we are going to go back each day for 30 mins until we get everything we need. The set was absolutely perfect and everything we were looking for, so we do not want that to go to waste. 

Nowwwww let me show you some of what we have filmed!!! 

 

And in the next blog, I will be telling you about our editing process!! 

CCR Research Question #1

 HIII BLOGGGG!!

As a part of my portfolio project, we also have to do a Critical Creative Reflection. We are given 4 questions about our productions that we must answer creatively. I still haven't thought about how to make my answers to the questions creative, visually pleasing, and entertaining, so I'm going to focus on crafting my answers. Specifically, today's question 1. 

Question 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues? 

My answer! 

Unfortunatly since we haven't filmed yet, I cannot show you the conventions we have used in our horror opening; however, I can tell you about them. Within one of my very first blogs regarding starting this project, we researched institutional conventions, as well as genre conventions with techniques. But to answer this question, we are going to focus on genre conventions with techniques. 

In that blog, I stated the different techniques that are most used in horror and supernatural horror films. Some of these techniques we are actually going to use within our own film, such as close-ups on terrified faces, slow zooms to build dread, and sudden whip-pans to reveal apparitions. As for the second part of the question about how it represents social groups, I am going to speak about the techniques that provide horror-loving audiences with what they want by using these techniques to build that horror suspense or fear of what is to come.

Group meeting #2

 Group Meeting #2

Hiiii Cambridge, today we had our second group meeting! Once again I had a amzing group who were all very happy, intrested and willing to help provide feedback. My Group members were Santi, Ethan, Camila, Isa, Macie, and Andre. 

Some of my group members are partners with classmates in my first group meeting. So it was really cool to see how their plots and stories are progressing, and the production process is beginning. 

Let me tell you about everyone's plots! Ethan is making a sci-fi stop motion astronaut film, Andre is making a thriller on technology going wrong, Santi is making a story about a doctor who makes a medicine to save the world, but then something in the medicine goes wrong, and the doctor can't take the pressure and commits sucide and a man has to fix it and save the world. Camila's story revolves around a girl whose sister died, and she is reminiscing but can't move on. Isa's story is a drama about a cheerleader who appears to be a popular, normal-seeming girl, but is actually involved in drug dealing. Macie's story is about a janitor who finds himself in a magazine while cleaning. The article is about a government preservation experiment, and he is trying to figure out what this experiment was and how/why he was in it. 

Feedback:

I got tons of great feedback on my opening and how to improve it. Macie and Andre also recommended some shots to include to help with my mysterious figure. This was really helpful as Jake and I are going to begin filming in two days. They also helped me with coming up with ideas for my CCR and how to make it comedic, which is what I am going for.  

Once again id say it was another success, and I'm so grateful for all the help my peers provided. 

production post #2

 For the second production blog post, after further conversation with my partner, we are going to film this Wednesday, the 25th, for sure. I know the mice-en-scene blog post about the costume design of Claire was a lot of maybes, and what ifs, or possibly's, but we have a definite idea of what we will be doing, which is what I will be talking about in this blog. 

As mentioned previously, we wanted Claire's costume design to be bright and colorful. With this being said, after looking through my closet, I found two pieces of clothing that are somewhat colorful but could represent her cuteness. I also thought about brand, Lululemon is an athletic wear brand that was trending for those stereotypical "white girls" who get starbucks everyday, who are super cute but can be evil within a second. Although Claire doesn't become evil or anything like that, she is a cute girl. SOOOOOO I found two Lululemon pieces of clothing that match, have somewhat bright colors, although the pants are navy blue, with the lighting we are hoping to have in the parking lot, it won't be too dark to see that the leggings are blue and not black. On top of that, I found a fitted jacket that is a cream color with a gold zipper. I feel the light color of the cream is very cute, and the gold is a very nice touch, and I feel with contrast with the setting of the forest. 

Without furtherado here is the outfit. 

AB11

 As a part of the whole production process and the filming process, our production company logo and name should also be incorporated into the opening. I sent my previous blog, or production company name was gonna be AB11, no changes have been made to that, and we have decided to keep it. 

However, after looking into research about how A24, the production company that inspired our name and their openings, incorporates its logo with the theme or main idea of its films. So we decided to go for a similar approach, but rather than making it feel included in the film. We are keeping it like A video sort of, in the very beginning. After the logo/video is shown, our initial idea is to incorporate the name of our full opening itself, right after which the name of the film is still to be determined.

For the process of making our logo, we used Canva Plus to help us with the graphics and videoing of it, and we chose dark colors for the background along with the red as the AB11 to bring that sort of darkness and her feeling from the beginning. My partner Jake is a little more tech-savvy than I am, so I left him in charge of actually making it while I provided feedback throughout the process on how I felt about certain elements of the logo scene. Because this isn't just a logo, it's kind of a video, we also included some dark, eerie instrumental, or like almost weathering audio to build that feeling of darkness and suspense of what is going to occur in the following scenes, which will actually be our opening. After about two hours, we finally had a finished product, and I will be placing it below.

Production Part #1

Due to a slight change in scheduling and availability, my partner and I have decided that we are unable to film this weekend; however, we plan to film this week. Because of this, we are allowing ourselves to focus more on the preparation for beginning our whole filming process. With all being said, we are going to discuss one of the main props to our main character, Claire. 

As part of Claire's personality, her phone is a huge part of her life. This will be incorporated into the opening when, after she exits the woods and Wi-Fi comes back, her iPhone will be blowing up with messages. Because we have decided that I will be playing the character of Claire, I will be designing my phone for when Claire receives these messages. It will look more like Claire's style and personality, rather than keeping it as my phone and keeping my background and things like that. What I mean by Claire's style is including bright colors in a cute background that could be just a cute pattern background or like a cute picture of Claire and her friend, but in this case, because I am playing Claire, it would be a picture of me and one of my other friends. 

Here is a screenrecording of me decorating my phone into Claire's phone.

I specifically chose this picture of my childhood best friend and me from sixth grade as the background because I wanted it to show Claire's innocence and sweetness, as the background is a picture of her with one of her young childhood best friends. 

ACTION!

HIII BLOG! This is my planning blog for the production of the film's opening! Its kinda crazy to think about we are about to start filming and are almost done with the project. But anyways, my partner Jake and I discussed our planning process in class tdy so now you're going to learn about our plan!

Production Name 

In class, the first thing we had planned out was the production name that we will also include in our future logo. We began researching popular horror production companies to hopefully get some inspiration for our name. After tons of research, we found a production company, A24, a prominent American independent entertainment company specializing in film and television production and distribution. They have produced many popular horror movies, such as Hereditary (2018), Midsommar (2019), The Witch (2015), and Talk to Me (2023). I have seen some of these myself, and I can admit they are very well made. This production name really stuck out to us because it was something somewhat creative but also not difficult. We are odvisouly werent gonna copy it because we can't do that. So we came up with AB11, which is the first letter of my last name (Anciso) and the first letter of Jake's last name (Bass). To come up with a number, we chose 11 because 11 is Jake's Football number, and my number for Flag Football is 1, so we just felt it worked.  

Casting!

For our cast, our main character Claire, we are still trying to figure out who we want to act. We are both struggling to think about who looks the part and would want to do it, along with me, and is a good fit. Yes, we have considered me playing Claire, and my only thing against it was having Jake film, which I like filming, and Jake is going to be doing most of the editting so id feel bad making him do both. The Park Ranger is our other charcter, we decided we are going to go to the park and ask politely if there would be any actual park rangers who work there willing to help us out. I feel this is really smart because the actual park ranger would look much more authentic than just buying a costume. I also think it would just be really cool and fun to. have a real park ranger to play a part of the a park ranger in our film. 

In the next blog post, I will be discussing the creation of our logo and the production process as we are hoping to begin filming THIS WEEKEND!! 

Sound, music, audiooooo

 During the duration of the opening, Jake and I have decided to include music throughout certain parts of the scene. My partner Jake and I have been talking briefly about music and sound, and we are hoping to begin our filming this upcoming weekend. In class, we will be taking a deeper dive into our discussion about our audio choices and music.  

My first initial thought for music is to include an instrumental extract for the introduction of the opening. During this time, the credits will also be displayed. Unfortunatly due to the fact that we have not actuallt began filming, it's hard to choose music to integrate if we can't actually see if it aligns well with the context or visuals of the film opening itself. But we do have general thoughts and ideas. What I am thinking for the intro music is for it to be calm, not something like cozy cafe instrumental music. I'm thinking of something a little more upbeat, but still rather calm, than something to make you feel almost sleepy.

 Following later in the opening, when the first shot of the mysterious figure is shown, different music will be played. This music, I feel, should be eerie; however, not fast-paced. After doing further research on music during openings of horror genres, when there is a killing, the music is fast-paced, but because there is no murder and the figure is just standing there, I believe the music should be slow but engaging. The music should get the audience's heart rate up, have them guessing what is to come with this figure. We have also yet to consider or think about what sounds could potentially be sounds that Jake and I would have to foley. Foley sounds are very difficult and are very hard to make sure the sound is perfect and the time is perfect. There is no room for error. With this being said, if Foley sounds are needed, the process of making them will be included in a later blog post. 

Mise-en-scene #2

In my second blog on the recent songs of our film opening, I'm going to be discussing our setting and lighting. 

As mentioned in one of my previous blogs, we will be using the Treetops Park in Davie, Florida, as our setting. He wanted to use the treetops park because it has a lake trails, lots of trees and even a big treehouse however, after further discussion with our teacher, we decided that for the plot we are going to be working with we will not be needing any of that, however we are going to be utilizing a semi empty or empty parking lot and a trail or Woody area that leads to the parking lot. We're going to attempt to film this at dusk night time time of day because we want to give off that Yuri sense of her coming out of the woods at night and nobody is there. Under the circumstances, the Tree Tops Park is a public park. We do not know how many cars will be in the parking lot at the time we are trying to fill, which in all isn't a bad thing; however, if the parking lot is completely full. We might not be able to find an empty street light, which leads me to my next point about lighting.

I said in the previous paragraph that we wanted to be nighttime, or if the time of closing for the park doesn't permit it to be around dusk. However, to further portray this mysterious figure we are going to utilize backlit lighting, using a street light. I have illustrated pictures in my previous blog of examples of how we are going to use the streetlight, which I will also include at the bottom of the blog. But we want to utilize his back lighting to further convey the vagueness of our mysterious figure. 

Mise-en-scene

 As a part of my first of two mise-en-scene blogs, I'm going to talk about the mise-en-scene element of our character Claire's costume design. 

I said in my previous blog that Claire is going to have a very cute personality, and I want her costume designed to demonstrate her very sweet personality. After doing some research on the modern style of hiking currently for women, Jake and I have seen that there are today's trending styles. A very popular style for hiking is leggings and a tight jacket with a sports bra. however we feel it gives off a very modernized style, and that's not entirely what we're looking for to portray Claire's personality and character. Here are some images of the current trending hiking attire for women. 

Rather than changing the style itself because we still want to go for that modernized look within our film opening, we've decided that we want to focus more on the color scheme of her outfit. Using previous knowledge of color schemes and colors, Colors such as white, pink, orange, and yellow are all gray colors that we could utilize to help portray Claire's personality, with the color white even meaning innocence. We want everything to be cohesive since Claire has a very bubbly, cute personality. We want her outfits to feel very well put together and cohesive. Here are some more pictures that we found that could work in line with our color schemes and color ideas we are going for. 

Our Protagonist

 Meet The Main Character!!

HIIII BLOGG!! In this blog, I will be introducing the main character of our film's opening. As a part of most successful films, you need a character or have characters. As part of our opening, we chose to have a main character, a woman who is in her early 20s, maybe even late teens. Her name is Claire. We chose Claire because it felt like a cute name that would suit someone vulnerable, in our case, vulnerable to our mysterious figure. 

We want to build an image of Claire as a super sweet, naive, innocent girl. We don't want her to portray a mean girl personality, and that is something my partner Jake and I have wanted from the start. We don't really have a reason why; it's something that just felt right for both of us, so we agreed to make Claire have this sweet girl personality. We also would like our character to be an average woman's height, which is around 5 feet 2 inches, because to help convey that super, cute, sweet, innocent persona, we would like her to be shorter in height. In the next blog, I will be talking about the rise-en-scene elements used to further build Claire's character!!

Next Step!!

 Storyboarding!!!

As part of our next step in the project, after we have planned out the plot, is to create a storyboard! A storyboard is intended to be a basic visual representation of how the shots are laid out and explained, creating a template to aid during the filming process. A storyboard isn't meant to be perfect or exactly how the film is going to look. Think of it like a sketch of a drawing; it isn't the final product, but it's almost an outline or just an idea of what the final product is going to be. 

These are our storyboard drawings, and as you can see, they aren't very detailed; however, they build a general idea of what is going to happen or just a general structure of how we would like to film our opening. I do not have the greatest artistic abilities; however, I use this as an opportunity to do more in the descriptive part underneath the drawing itself. And that portion, I talked about what shot was used in what the character will be doing during that shot. Something I did not mention in the storyboard is that in the shots where the woman is looking up from her phone and during the extreme longshot of the figure, we are going to utilize panning to allow the audience to feel as if they are watching the scene happen in real time. Meaning, we will not be cutting in between her looking up from her phone and then a shot of the figure itself. It will be all one fluid shot. This also allows for the Thai back to the active audience theory because the audience will feel as if they are a part of the shot, as it will feel as if it is happening in real time. 

I said in the final few shots, the characters of the woman and the park ranger will be conversing; however, we have yet to come up with the final script for what they will be saying to each other. We do have a general idea that the Ranger will startle her by placing his hand on her shoulder and will ask her what she's been doing here so late all by herself, especially with this mysterious figure that has been seen within the park. Another thing we would like to do is have the Ranger offer to walk her out. This could help build that suspense because at this point, the figure would be gone, and now it's just the woman in the Ranger.

Our Final Idea!!!

 Thought, after Thought

After being able to talk with Mrs. Stoklosa after many nights of brainstorming and butting heads with Jake about different ideas, we finally have a concrete idea. We agreed that we were leaning towards the genre of horror, and in our opening, it consists of paranoia. However, this is a film OPENING, not a full film, so we have chosen to cut/end the opening at a part during the scene that keeps the audience thinking, but they will never know. 

To open our scene, we are going to have a woman coming out of the forest, where it then cuts to a close-up of her phone as she receives a bunch of messages implying that she just got out of a hike within the forest and now has service. These messages will consist of her friends and family asking her if she is okay because there has been sight of a mysterious person or figure within the park she was hiking in. She responds, saying she is okay, but she is asking questions about who this person is or what this person is doing in the park. As she is waiting for a response, the camera will pan to a mysterious figure underneath the street light to create that backlit effect to make the figure's face unknown. The camera will continue panning between the woman and the figure to demonstrate that this is all happening within real time. As the woman calls out to the figure and gets no response, she gives up and believes it's just in her head when, all of a sudden, a park ranger approaches her. The park Ranger asked who she was calling out to, but when she went to tell him about the figure, the figure was gone. The park Ranger begins to tell her how it is late, and they're having sightings of a mysterious person within the park, and he believes she should head home. The woman agrees and begins to leave. However, my partner and I are stuck on where to end the opening. Option one is to end the opening right there after talking to the park Ranger and she was on her way out, or option two, where we show the figure still there, but it's a very quick shot of the figure and then cuts. I am leaning towards option two because I feel as if ending it with the short shot of the figure rebuild that builds suspense and paranoia. My partner is leaning towards option one so once we figure out which ending we choose to do, or if we come up with a completely different ending, it will be documented in one of my later blogs!!

Media Theory!

 Theories of Media 

HI BLOG!! As part of our media context essay, we are instructed to incorporate Media Theories in relation to our case studies.  We were given a paper listing various Media Theories and theorists. When developing our film case study, as part of the sections to research, we were asked to research a Media Theory that relates to the film and explain how it relates. For our film opening, we are tasked with selecting a media theory we'd like to incorporate and explaining why we have chosen it for our intended purpose. 

After further thought and research, my partner Jake and I agreed that the best Media Theory to include is the Active Audience Theory. The Active Audience Theory by Stuart Hall claims audiences are not passive recipients of media content but actively engage with, interpret, and create meaning from it. This theory emphasizes the role of audience members in shaping their media experiences, highlighting their ability to select, negotiate, and resist messages based on their own backgrounds and contexts. In other words, audiences are more likely to want to consume media where they feel as if they can interpret what comes next or feel engaged. We are going incorporate this with our plot idea with the idea of this mysterious figure. You may be asking yourself how a mysterious figure is going to make the audience feel as if they can interpret the scene, well heres how! During this part of the scene, a woman is going to see a figure in the distance of the parking lot, but it will be backlit, so you will not be able to see the face, only the silhouette. This builds that eerie suspense, with the woman being all by herself in an empty parking lot with a creepy figure under the street light, which will allow the audience to start thinking about what could possibly happen next. Will the figure attack her? Will it start creeping closer? Is it someone she knows playing a prank? This is an example of Active Audience Theory, which is getting the reader to feel engaged in the film, well, in our case, the opening. 

Here are some images of what we are trying to acheieve of this figure that is meant to get the audience engaged. 

Group Meeting

 1st Group Meeting 

Hello blog!! To start off the 3rd week of working on our portfolio project, in class, we did our first Group Meeting. First off, I want to tell you about the group I was in. It was me and 7 other classmates: Trisha, Samuel, Christian, Avery, Ethan, Meliyah, and Sonakshi. They were probably one of the best groups I could've had to start off my first group meeting of working on this project. Everyone was so kind, helpful, and attentive. 

To begin the group meeting, we all went around telling eachother their genre they are trying to demonstrate and what their initial ideas are. Samuel is working with a group of 2 other peers, where he stated they are trying to demonstrate a hospital operation while a robbery is taking place. We all agreed his idea could work really well if filmed correctly and made well, where we also suggested to him some shots and angles he could utilize for this plot. Christian went next, where he talked about his group and his film idea of beginning the scene with a group of friends in a car when they spot a mysterious bag in the road, and when they open the bag, they get sent into a trance. Because Christian had more of his plot already thought out, it was much easier to provide him with more feedback and help. I gave christian and idea for when to cut off the opening to make it cliffhanging. I suggested he cut it off while the camera is at a low angle of the group of teens looking into the bag, so it builds a sense of wonder in the audience of "what is in the bag", and then that's where it cuts. He was very appreciative of all our suggestions to further improve his opening, and that's another thing I loved about my group, we were all very open to people's opinions, honest criticum and help! 

However, of course everyones plot and ideas were great, but one person's plot that really stood out to me was Trisha's. Trisha's plot is that she wants to base her plot on a more modern or futuristic technological paranormal story about a woman or girl who has many different types of technology within her house. This includes her TV, her iPhone, an Alexa, and anything else technology-wise that she can program to do what she needs to build her plot. Her main idea is for everything to start malfunctioning against her; however, it is settle and makes her second-guess whether her technology is really trying to ruin her. I told her I think her idea is very smart and creative because of the world we are living in currently, with everyone being digital natives and the world being centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology. Her idea reminded me of an episode of the show 9-1-1, during which a woman is spying on her ex-boyfriend through all of his surveillance cameras and AI devices all throughout his entire house. However, while he goes to shower, she begins messing with the temperature through the app that's connected to that device in his house. However, because she keeps messing with it, it begins to malfunction, and the temperature keeps rising, and he begins to burn in the shower, meaning it kinda worked against him, like what Trisha is trying to portray in her opening. I recommended she watch that scene of the episode to allow her to kinda see a different perspective on a plot she is similarly trying to create. Overall, we all praised her for her super creative idea for her opening and provided her with loads of feedback. 

Now, for my ideas, as my turn came around during our circle. I told my group that my partner and I don't entirely have a concrete idea of what we are going to do, but we do have a small idea. I told my circle group all about how we want to utilize the Tree Tops to create a thriller or horror opening. I admit that we were leaning a little bit more towards horror because that is something Jake and I both love and have seen many films in that genre, making it easier for us to have an understanding of what we can do to pull this off, even though our teacher stated to kinda stay away from horror because it is very commonly used. I also told them some of the idea of a girl running through the woods and trying to figure out whether to start it off as she is running from something or she is just running because she likes to run, but there is something there she doesn't know about. They thought our idea of using the Tree Tops is smart espically because of how it looks at night, and would be a great way to portray that darkness in relation to horror. Ethan also suggested we research more horror openings and see if we can find more inspiration because he believed that the idea of running from something may be commonly used, but the idea of using the setting of the forest was a great idea. So I am very open to researching a little more, but tomorrow when I am in class discussing with my partner, we then hope to have a concrete idea so we can get up to pace and make sure we don't fall behind espicallt when the time for filmimg come, we need to be ready. 

In The Trees

 The Tree Tops 

Initial Ideas:

After my partner Jake and I had been doing our research on openings with the genres we are interested in portraying, we began brainstorming, but we agreed lets come up with a setting for the opening and then try to build a story or plot with that setting. Jake has been pretty stuck on the idea of a dark forest, which I think is good due to the fact that we are going for a horror or thriller opening. Now the part we struggled with is living in Weston, Florida, where are we going to find a forest? So we had to think outside the box, which really meant outside of Weston. That's when I remembered a while back I went to a friend's house who lives in Davie, Florida, and she took me to this big forest area by her house, which is really a park with a big tree house, a lake, and trails everywhere hidden by the trees. It is known as Tree Tops Park. 

 This is an image of one of the many trails that The Tree Tops has to offer for us. These trails, especially at night, can be used to build that eerie feeling or sense of thrill if utilized correctly. 

                    This is a picture of the tree house that The Tree Tops has available. The tree house is relatively old, but still sturdy and well-maintained. The tree house provides Jake and I many more potential plot ideas bc not only is it all, but it also has that old run-down look to it, which can build off of that scary or thrilling feeling. 

Last but not least, The Tree Tops also has a lake that includes a wooden boardwalk, also known as a footbridge. The boardwalk leads to the middle of the lake and can be used as a fishing spot. This is another aspect of the park that can be well used to develop a horror or thriller plot. 

Overall, The Tree Tops has so much to offer for filming, and is a great place to let creativity run wild in terms of the number of different plots or stories we can develop. My initial thoughts before really brainstorming a plot or discussing our idea with our teacher, Mrs. Stoklosa, I am thinking about opening the scene with someone running, however, it would be running away from something or even going on a peaceful run abloivous of everything outside of their headphones. I feel this is a great way to build curiosity or chaos from the start, which is something I stated I wanted to do in my previous post. Adding on to the idea of someone running, they could run to the boardwalk, where there would be something watching from the water or even someone following them, making them trapped since they are in the middle of a lake. As you may be able to see, there are so many ideas for stories to develop within this plot, and I hope my partner and I take the most advantage of this to make a very good film opening.