Reflection:
This week, our group was successfully able to finalise our script, plan shooting days, and sort out what equipment we need for filming.
The week began with our work in progress presentation – which served as a good wake-up call to focus on translating our ideas and intention into the script. Although we received terrific feedback, particularly on my script writing and general idea for the film, I do think we were a bit misunderstood in terms off the style we are going for – purely thanks to our lack of planned explanation.
On Wednesday, the group finalised the script through bouncing ideas off one another for particular circumstances the characters may find themselves in. I found Hannah’s feedback particularly useful in this practise – as she advised us to make the absolute most out of the absurdity our idea carries. This led mainly helped us in breaking through sections of the script we felt creatively blocked at – particularly during the beach scene, when a pirate randomly walks into frame and Kevin walks into the ocean. We realised we did not need to be so strict on how our story reaches an end – and that the potential for fun and incongruity in our fundamental idea is what we should focus on when coming up with our idea, as opposed to following a strict narrative structure. This also led to the idea of ‘killing off’ Kevin at the beach, only to add him in a post credit scene; we built his character to be completely absurd, so why not extend that trait as far as we can?
This week our group aims to completely finish our filming, so that we can begin editing with a comfortable time before the due date. K was great last week in organising what the group needed to film – this also helped us understand which scenes we wanted to experiment with our filming techniques (use of fish eye, disorienting camera movements) – so I feel confident we will be as organised as possible, come our filming day on Wednesday.