They agreed!!

So we decided to change the whole project. Everyone in the group decided it was best to change the idea and make the project easier on ourselves. However, we didn't decide this with ease. For the first hour or two, we tried our best to come up with a solution to our problem from Thursday; that proved to be difficult. After some long silences, we decided it would be more proficient if we changed the plotline. I actually really like the new plotline better than the first one. So our new idea is about this dystopian society where everyone is glued to their technological device. We start the opening with a credit scene of a bunch of different people speaking different languages on their phones. The different language part is to establish that this is happening all over the world. Each group of people will speak a different language and will be talking about a different social media site. When we zoom in on their phone, it will show a credit, such as "directed by" on Snapchat. The screen then goes black and the title "watch Now" appears. With the use of a mastershot and moving between low and high angles, a group of 4 friends walks through the house and into the backyard, while not looking up from their phones once. Half way through the hang out, every friend gets a notification at the same time. The camera will zoom into the main character's phone and the notification will state, "your father just died. Watch video now." The main character is the only one to react, all the other characters remain unfazed. The main character starts to freak out and realizes how screwed up this society is. Then, the camera cuts to a high angle of the other three characters completely passive and all pressing "watch now". I really like this idea, not only because it is much simpler than the other idea, but because it exposes a sad truth about our society today. Instead of enjoying the things around us, we spend most of our time looking down on a small screen.

Additionally, this change of direction still fits in our previous genre. However, I am going to research different case studies that are more similar to this storyline. I'm not really sure what the rest of the plotline will be,  but I believe the main character meets other people who see how awful the society is. Eventually, they find enough people to join their cause and start revolting against the society. This story really reflects society today. In our generation, there are a group of people who are technology bound and couldn't think of living any other way, while others reject social media.

Hopefully, we stick to this idea and start filming soon. I have great confidence in this storyline and I believe everyone will enjoy it too.

                                                                                                                    xoxo Laerke