Final Project Idea

After multiple hours of discussing, me and my group have reached a final decision on what our idea for our final project. We were able to come to an agreement to pursue the idea of friendship and grief. 

In my last blog post, I have mentioned the storyline. For recap, it is essentially a friend group of four people. In this case it would be me, Emi, Jahzara, and Ngoc. The storyline would be where we have been friends since we were kids and are growing up together. However, Jahzara ends up getting diagnosed with cancer but she does not tell the friend group. She does not want us to worry about her so she does not tell us. Then, one day we end up texting in the group chat but she does not respond. We get concerned so we go to her house and that is when we realized she had died from cancer. Once we realize that she is gone, our lives each change significantly in their own ways. Emijola is going to be the friend that is visibly depressed and suffering from the loss of Jahzara. I am going to be the friend that acts 'nonchalant' and parties as if nothing has happened because that would be my way to cope. Lastly, Ngoc would be the friend who is trying to hold our group together because ever since the loss of Jahzara, the group has not been the same. The group is slowly becoming distant but Ngoc does not want that so she tries to pull us back together. 

With this being our storyline, this fits under the genre of drama. In order for our project to fit the genre conventions of drama we obviously have to make most of our movie opener elements dramatic. Thus, we going to do the opening scene of us crying and throwing 'ashes' into the beach. Moreover, the overall conflict in our storyline is dramatic in that the loss of our bestfriend causes us to all suffer with grief and with this grief we all have our own ways to cope. In addition, following this grief, our friend group starts to separate and we constantly get into arguments. Luckily, our mediator Ngoc, will bring us back together and we will all have character development. This character development that each of us have will add to the genre conventions of drama. 

In order to make our movie opener not being soley based on the genre of drama, we were going to add hints of romance elements within it. For example, we are going to make either me or Emijola have a side plot of us falling in love and in that way it would help us cope. For Emi, since she is in a state of depression, she would find a love interest that would help guide her way through the grief. Whereas for me, I would be "partying" and meet new friend that is a guy. Me and this guy would become close through the few months and he would be the first to learn about my true struggles of the death of my friend Jahzara. As a result, he would help me with my character development and this would slowly allow our friend group to stabilize again. Throughout the movie opener, we were also planning to create a reminiscent tone. So, we plan to incorporate flashbacks of memories of when our group was us four all together hanging out.

Lastly, we came to a conclusion that our movie opener would be based on the idea of a friend passing away in the friend group and each member of the friend group will find their own ways to cope. The grief process will be a rollercoaster for all of us. We will go through many hardships throughout the process, but in the end, we will come together again with even stronger bonds.