Nicole and Virginia are back! The entire CBTV crew killed it at STN, bringing home some of the most prestigious awards that could have been won! But now, it's time for work!
We had our first class period together since their return from the trip, and immediately wanted to get to work. The night before, we had decided that we were going to create a horror/psychological thriller for our film opening. We decided that it was the best way to capitalize on each of our individual strengths: Virginia's background in short horror films, Nicole's editing skills, and my writing background. Nicole and Virginia recently produced a short psychological thriller titled "Toby Has Friends", which they have submitted to various film festivals. In class, Virginia also showed me another short psychological thriller she had produced titled "Critique", about a young artist who fails to deal with the pressures from critics of her work, resulting in her demise. We knew that since this genre is the one that we were the most familiar with, it would be the best one to have our film opening under.
We then spent the rest of the period brainstorming ideas for what our film opening should be about. We threw around many different ideas, but figured that they were all similar to something that we had either seen or made before. One idea that I proposed to the group was about an extremely charismatic and handsome political figure (think of JFK, for example) who is part of an extremely unknown and dangerous cult that is responsible for causing psychological torture to many people. We quickly realized, however, that it would be difficult for one of us, or someone our age to play the part of a political candidate, as we obviously look much younger than one typically does, and realized that it would be hard to find someone who would fit the part and be reliable for filming days. So the search for ideas continued.
We then agreed that we could do something about a person in purgatory. The film-opening itself would show the person waking up, and feeling confused as to where they are, rather than panicking or scared, differentiating this from other psychological thrillers. We decided that the credits could be shown own close-ups of different objects from the character's life. We also decided that we want the color scheme to be extremely monochromatic. When Virginia mentioned the idea, I immediately pictured an all-white room, with the character also dressed in all white, with dark objects surrounding him. We're still figuring out many details about it, but I'm really proud of what we've come up with in just one day and I can't wait to update you on the rest of this process!
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