#18 The Second Decision Blog — Planning

     In my first decision blog, I wrote how originally our post was going to be a monarchy who killed each other in secret for the throne; however, we weren't really 100% sure about that one. Now we have an idea for a plot, it's completely different from the original one, although the new plot isn't set in stone yet. We each have our interpretations of the plot, so how the story carries out isn't clear to us yet. The idea of our new film idea is that a girl--whose world takes place in the 2000s--is researching a series of murders, or a single murder. She takes a break from doing her research and goes outside to get the mail, in which it asks what the worst way to die would be; she answers this by writing "drowning" (because for some reason she has a pencil and thinks it's okay to answer random, anonymously sent mail). Obviously, because the plot is just so full of twists and turns, she dies by drowning.

     In my opinion, this plot if so full of holes. I know it's my group's storyline, and I will have to communicate this with them; the story, or what we think we have so far, is boring. It's a horror, but there's nothing scary about it. There's no suspense. There's no mystery. The girl dies too quickly, and this is supposed to be a 2-minute film opening not a 2-minute short film. Also, we’re changing the genre from Horror to Action.

     Instead of just having the girl—whose name I don't think we even have yet—die immediately and obviously by drowning, the film opening should hint at how she's going to die (if it even hints at her demise at all). I like the idea that the antagonist is already hinted at (the survey), my team members suggested that while the girl is answering the survey, a mysterious and black figure should sneak into her house and watch her throughout the 2-minute film opening. It just sounds so simple and not creative. Overall, I like the idea, I just don't like the way they're building it. But then again, I'm not sure if they made any changes to the plot; all this is based on what we've said during class since the three of us haven't met up outside school, so this could all just be misinformation on my part.

A very, VERY short storyline