Production Blog: Initial Stages of Planning

I'm Luc-Luis Manosalvas, and welcome back to my blog. This is what me and my group did to start our planning. As usual the very first thing we did was talk about ourselves and our group in our first two blogs. This remained mostly the same, as we are working in almost the same group as before. Following this, we had to decide on a pitch for our movie. I don't quite remember which one it was, but either Rhys or Daniel came up with the idea that we decided on. I liked the idea, though I will admit, I was skeptical. I was very unsure about whether Rhys would have the editing skills necessary to somehow make someone disappear from a skateboard. Despite this, Rhys reassured me that he could do it. I had also come up with a secondary idea that was, admittedly, pretty outlandish. We all thought it was a cool idea, but I realized it would be completely implausible. Daniel actually liked the idea so much, that he argued that we should use it. Fortunately, I quickly brought up our lack of costumes, props, and location necessary to film it. Even then Daniel was unconvinced, but he eventually gave in. From that point on we researched everything we needed to be able to start our title sequence. The first thing we researched was genres. I researched the mystery genre, which we had already decided would be the most suitable for our pitch. We then researched movie conventions displayed in specific movies, so we would know how to do our own. I watched and took notes on the movie I discussed in a prior blog, called The Pale Blue Eye. The last thing we researched was title sequences, also so we could better understand our own. This was all to lay the foundation for the more solid plans we will create later on.