This week my group and I finalised the ideas for our major project. We changed it a bit from last week’s idea but our final decision was more informed and cohesive then when we initially pitched it to the class. Our story would involve an agent who is from another time and era, who time travels to 2024 to go on a secret mission. Their mission, set by their boss, is to catch a rogue agent and along the way experience the day to day experiences we go through. Our work is not intended to be outwardly funny but is a hybridization and satire. Hybridising an action sci-fi movie and satirising the digital age. 

We found out that we needed to create character profiles for each character in our short film. This would help us develop the story and inform the way the character would act and react to the world surrounding them. Our main character would have heightened characteristics like a prim and proper appearance combined with a serious overlay but have childlike innocence when discovering ‘new things’. These things would be rotating doors, vapes, escalators, street crossing sound and more ordinary things. 

My group members were able to start on the script, writing scenes that would be included in the short film. As script writing is not my strong suit, I started some location scouting to best fit the setting of our film. Our sets include a sci-fi office which would work well at RMIT Building 50 with the rounded windows filling the entire exterior. Shadows and light casted through these windows could create an interesting visual. Another sight could be the South Lawn Car Park at University of Melbourne with its dark atmosphere and curved pillars that makes it look very futuristic, perfect for an epic fight scene. 

In the next week or so my group’s goal is to write and almost finalise our scripts ready for filming. I’m concerned our ideas may be ambitious, with all the scenes, settings, props and lines, as well as not meeting the time constraint. Although, this can be solved in post-production by adding or subtracting scenes and I think the more ambitious the more ideas and dedication to the work.

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