Instructor Meeting

 Today in class, we were taught a lesson on writing screenplay. It was very helpful in further developing the ideas that my partner and I currently have, which brings us closer to our final decision of which plot we will be executing for the short film. Here is the outline that I created for the Lemonade Mules story and how it would be executed.

Major Plot and Character Description

After the presentation, our instructor called everyone up to discuss our progress and blog postings to ensure they are meeting the needed requirements. Her and I decided that our final two picks should be the Chef and the Lemonade mules story, but she offered advice on how to execute them properly.

How the short film would be developed

After writing these, she said that it may be best to do without the drugs as the conflict since we do not have enough time in the short film to properly develop the conflict. That instead it should just be focused on the age difference between the two, how they come from different times and how they may be willing to compromise. But I'm not sure how we should execute that with it still being engaging. Personally, I wouldn't want to watch a 5-minute film on kids debating with an older man about a lemonade stand, but I trust her judgment when she said that simpler stories are much better than trying to cram a larger story into such a short frame. To make it entertaining, we could be able to incorporate some comedy to the piece by having each of the characters go back in forth like the man pushing their stand away and then he begins to walk away and as he gets back home to turn around he sees that the kids are already back. I will need to further discuss this with my partner, but next post will be regarding the changes made to the chef story.