Week 3 Reflection

Beginning this week, our group had solidified our short films narrative, characters, and key plot points.

On Monday, we began class having a basic idea of the story our film would tell, as well as the characters in the film. We got quite stuck when trying to brain storm our sequence of events, about half way through. We were encouraged to practise the brainstorming exercises , and jot down any idea, line, shot, or action – as this could break our creative block. In doing this – we successfully broke through and thought of an entire different story, whilst keeping a few key ideas we had conceived in the previous week. The story we were able to conjure up is definitely more complete and enticing than what we previously had – which was more the combining of scattered, less related ideas.

It was then time to write the vomit script. I took on this role and jotted down majority of the script before Wednesdays class. I found this exercise quite difficult, as although I was technically meant to continue writing, and not pause to think of dialogue/jokes, I found myself pausing for more basic action and dialogue – although I still left a lot of blank space for possible jokes and action. Obviously the vomit script was not 100% considered in terms of dialogue and what best suites the characters personalities, but it was definitely a good place to start.

On Wednesday, our group went through the script and began filling in the blanks, and working through logical issues relating to dialogue and key plot points. One of these issues was figuring out how the drug taking is initiated. We worked through a few possible causes and agreed that Kevin should be the one who pushes for the crew to take the drugs – as it gives us the opportunity to present his character as a more cocky, pushy, and generally annoying personality. Another key event we worked through was the conversations being had when the friends are waiting for the drugs to kick in. I was really happy with what we came up with – particularly the dialogue leading to Millie getting up and leaving. I feel that we are drawing from many theories and methods of comedy, and that our film is shaping up to be a lot of fun for audiences, particularly thanks to how we can experiment with the influence of drugs on the characters – for example, The incongruity of Kevin hurling the rock at the Uber driver.

VOMIT SCRIPT – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nvnsElXeSoqC_WSykF8C3DK6yb95Dgkt/view?usp=share_link