This week was a real eye opener for my group, it many ways it was a very important and successful week too. On Monday’s class we watched on as each group proposed their idea to our two guests who were so cool to have and to listen to one after another for the whole class. Of course as we sat through group after group hearing everyone’s very unique and hilarious ideas, our fate was over and we were last of course. My group’s presentation was different to anyone else’s, we as a group are very hands on, we don’t really work in a planned presentation which sounds weird but i think we work better thinking off one another rather than just showing off a PowerPoint, our idea is very strong and very passionate to us all and we show this all off through our group chat, class time and our scriptwriting. The feedback we were given was very helpful, we were in a bit of a writers block where we didn’t really know where to go from a specific part which was the beach scene where the boys reach a hard point in the journey where they have almost given up in finding Millie Bobby, basically the climax of the film, which was the most important to progress the characters. The help we got was refreshing, the main thing i took away was to write natural, no need to squeeze every joke in existence in, it will obviously come naturally and that is what happened on Wednesday. On Wednesday we completed the script and i was very happy and amused by my groups work to go forth and dive into the deep end and head on the right track of success. I would say my favourite part of this was sort of looking back at cinema, we all felt like we were brainstorming cinematic moments like we were George Lucas, Brain De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola the way we were talking about old cinema and how we can possibly, through camera movement, bring these moments back into our piece. A hilarious and really cool looking idea we have and are experimenting with is recreating one of Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka nursery rhyme where the children and him are on the boat and head into the tunnel, everything starts to freak out.
We will use this when my character Kevin freaks out and is put into a peer pressured scenario where he basically has to ‘walk the plank’ into a strange tunnel and to calm himself down psychotically sings this and freaks his acquaintances out, this will look very cool with different colours as well which we are hoping for.