Recommendations!

In order to have the best project ever we need to hear the constructive criticism of others. In class today, we were able to do that by meeting with different groups and their project, discussing new ideas or what could be approved upon in the film opening. This was an extremely effective method considering that each one of us came out of it with great new ideas that were we would like to implement into our final project. In order to do this, we would explain to other groups our overall ideas for the film opening and how we would like to execute every idea into the final project. The group would then first come up with any constructive criticism of what not to do or mention the ideas that stuck the least. They would also come up with great ideas that could possibly be implemented in the final project. The more minds coming together means the more ideas that are going to be produced, and the more ideas are going to be implemented. 

Since we all met separately with different groups, we came together and talked about the information we gained from our meetings. The only ideas my group did not find helpful, was the recommendation to start the film opening with the battery level at 20%. We agreed that this would make the video look less realistic considering that a phone with that much charge does not lose all of the battery that quickly enough to show the 1% in the film opening.  I was given the idea to have the photos of the girls in the film opening spell out 1%. That way the film opening title would be shown in a more creative way rather than the average text on a video format that is usually seen. We agreed collectively that it was a great idea and that executing that would make the project way more original and stand out from the competition. One idea that we all loved was to correlate the percentage battery on the main character's phone, starting at 5%, to the five stages of grief she is feeling. This idea is for sure going to create more substance to the opening and going to make our final project stand out from the others.


The first stage we want to show is denial. When the character reaches the warehouse at five percent, she is in denial that this is happening and that she is in actual reality. Not wanting to believe her current situation, she is shown through the battery percentage, stressing and extremely scared over what she is going through that she can't believe it.
The second stage is anger, we will show the character with 4% begin to get aggressive with her abusers and try to find ways to escape in a violent manner.
Later on, we will use the third phase in grief which is bargaining, at 3%, to show how these girls are willing to give up anything to go back to their regular lives and leave their current situation. It could from bargaining sexual favors to physical labor.
Then, the fourth phase which is, depression we would want to show at 2%. The saddened main character will lose all hope is finding a way out and it will be accurately portrayed throughout the opening.
The last phase we do not want to reach, considering that it is the film opening, is acceptance. It is to be inferred that the acceptance phase would come when the character reaches the one percent on her phone.