Becky: Group Meeting.

Fortunately I was well enough to attend sixthform today; my group were very kind and updated me on everything I had missed; I really appreciated this.

Today in our group meeting we decided that our current short film idea could be improved as it was rather predictable and similar to some existing short films. We want to make our short film unique by taking our existing idea take to the next level.

We decided that in our original idea too much was happening at once and  too many people would be on set at certain times. So firstly we reduced the amount of people, so the concentrations of the viewers are drawn to the main characters and the dialogue. 

As a group we acted out the ideas we had already had with the existing script. We realised that a major problem may occure if every conversation is scripted as it may sound rehearsed and not believable. However some coversations must be scripted otherwise they will not work; this will be done by Leonie, also she will find interesting topics for the actors to discuss about in the unscripted sections. We want it to feel as realistic as possible. This resulted into a possible idea that certain conversations in our film could be improvised to give that realistic feel that we aim to create. There will be topics for the actors to stick too, but instead of a script being memorised word by word, they can use these topics and work with their partner to make it into a realistic conversation. The only problem with this is that naturally people can become blank and can not think of what to say next, to overcome this, there will be a run-through of their conversations, so they roughly know what the other is going to say.

When we acted the conversations again, we improvised certain parts instead of reading from the script which noticeably portrayed more emotion and it felt more realistic and believable.

By using improvisation we believe that our short film will differ from others and will become a unique and distinctive short film.