As we were brainstorming, we contemplated between two genres, romance and drama. We wanted to do a romance genre because we all love watching rom-coms, and thought it would be cute to incorporate romantic elements such as the different stages of teenage love. Then, we wanted to specifically choose the subgenre of romantic drama. This is because we were thinking of doing a dramatic teenage love story. However, we soon scrapped this idea due to a few issues. The first issue was that none of us had a boyfriend or a love interest in general. With no boyfriend, the love story is nonexistent... The second issue was that even if we pretended to use a guy friend of ours as an actor, none of us would be able to accurately portray the chemistry of falling in love. Thus, we decided that we would not pursue a romance path unless we geniunely wanted to. As a result, we started to brainstorm another idea.
Since we paused on the idea of romance, we started diving deeper into the genre of drama. We discussed the pros and cons of this genre, and we found that the pros outweighed the cons. One of the pros was that doing the drama genre would allow us to convey moral themes. We wanted our movie opener to be somewhat inspirational. Thus, by doing a drama genre, this would allow us to emotionally connect with those watching. Under the genre of drama, we were able to brainstorm many ideas, but we ended up contemplating on two specific ideas. The two particular ideas that we came up with were either grief or insecurity.
For insecurity, we brainstormed the idea of doing a movie opener on the concept of a girl who struggles with self-identity. She gets judged by those around her, and so when she grows older, she decides to get plastic surgery. Once she gets plastic surgery, she moves to a new school and essentially starts a "new" life. That was the plot or storyline we planned at first, but we also ended up second-guessing this idea because we came across an issue. The issue was that none of us knew how we would actually make a two-minute opener on this idea. In other words, we were not sure what we would do for the opening scene. Moreover, as a group, we wanted to do something more sentimental and relatable. Thus, we came up with another idea that we could possibly do and that idea would be of a dramatic grief storyline.
Our idea of grief was that there was essentially a friend group of four girls (these four girls would be our group), but one of them ended up passing away from cancer or some sort of health condition. The death of this friend would be life-changing to the rest of the friend group. We would have one of us be the friend who is visibly depressed and struggling to cope. We would have another one of us who is basically the person who tries to look for optimism or the bright side of things. This person would be the one who holds the friend group together or the middle ground between person one and three, even though she is struggling to cope with her own personal grief. Lastly, person three would be the one who puts on a facade as if they are happy and nothing happened. Person three would be the type to act all happy on the outside in order to distract themselves from reality.
With these two genres in mind, romance and drama, we were planning to possibly combine them or do a mix of the two, known as the romantic drama subgenre. Before that however, there is currently a divide in our group on which idea we should pursue. Me and Emi want to do the friendship idea but Jahzara and Tina want to purse the insecurity idea.
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