So Recently we’ve been put into groups for our final project. The final Project is fairly flexible and allows us to come up with almost anything that we’d like to do. We have to come up with what we’d like to explore and how we are going to go about it.

In our first group meeting we all came in with separate ideas that we’d like to explore, some where story based concepts and some where technical based concepts. My idea was to explore genre through a scientific experiment sort of way, keeping most of the variables as similar as possible only changing the genre. I thought this would be a good exercise to do and luckily the group agreed. So we decided to use that as the base of our project. We also brought another members idea of looking at the same action through different characters perspective, combing that with the genre experiment.

Our second group meeting we tried to fine tune some of our ideas and figure out the overarching story that we’re going to have for all the stories. Eventually we decided that a love interest would be a good generic story arch that we could manipulate to different genres. We also decided on the Genres and Characters that we were going to use in our project. FairyTale, Horror, Teen Movie, Noir and mockumentary, with an individual character to front each genre.

The Storyline that we have decided on after various meetings is the following:
Based in a school, a school ball/party goes terribly wrong when the Punch gets severely spiked and hallucinations incur, creating damage to the school. 5 Students are brought to the Principles office, each with potential motives for spiking the Drink. From the Principles Office each student retells their story leading up to the Ball from their different perspectives, each set in a different genre.

We have decided to pitch this as a 6 part miniseries, 5 characters each have their own episode, plus an episode bringing all the stories together. What we will actually film for the project is a few scenes from different scripts that we have written for the story, juxtaposing them together to analyse the different tropes in use to create genre.

We have all agreed that we’ll split the work evenly, with every team member taking on a genre and character to write about individually. When it comes to filming we will also divide the roles up evenly, changing depending on what shoot we are doing.

All in all I’m really excited for the Project, i’m just disappointed that we don’t have the time or the resources to create the full mini series.