Brainstorming

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Brainstorming


1. Crime Scene
A crime scene opening was our first idea, but we changed it pretty fast after we brainstormed a funeral idea. Clearly, there were many cons to begin with because we wanted the genre to be a murder mystery where somebody died mysteriously in their home. There were way too many budget issues that came our way, like the fake blood and caution tape. We did not have an idea of how we were going to make it look realistic and professional since these types of scenes are extremely hard to replicate because they must evoke a certain mood. However, this type of scene is commonly used in murder mystery movies, so there are many references and videos to help us replicate it, and all of this stuff is available on the internet and in stores like Amazon or Walmart. Therefore, we scrapped this idea after talking about the immense difficulties.

2. Funeral
A funeral opening is an idea we are most leaning towards with the genre of tragedy for our funeral scene where we are all mourning someone who dies, but it turns out they never really died. However, it would definitely be hard to execute a tragedy because it would have to involve crying and that is very hard for it to look realistic unless the person is actually crying. Moreover, there are issues with the location. In more detail, it would be preferable if we were to film at a real cemetery due to the graves with actual engravings rather than a store-bought gravestone, but we find the idea of filming there a bit strange. Plus, the coffin would be hard to find and is definitely not cheap, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Nevertheless, there are some advantages to having a tragedy genre since it is easy to display it in mise-en-scene, using blue, moody filtering, low lighting, flowers as props, and black outfits. It makes it effortless for it to be distinguished for the audience.

3. Police Station
We thought about doing a police-related crime genre for our opening, as someone gets arrested and taken in to get investigated by a detective for a murder. We talked about this idea very briefly because knew that we did not have the resources to do this because it requires an actual police station and potentially a police car, which would be hard to obtain. Plus, we did not really have enough planning for this idea either because we did not know how to incorporate a plot into it. We could have bought props for it, decorated a room, and pretended it was a police station, but it would definitely look low-budget since we are high schoolers on a budget. The only advantage of this scene is that many things are specifically associated with police, like their police uniform and siren, files, and red and blue flickering lights. We had the basic concept of this scene from prior knowledge, which is helpful. Nonetheless, this idea was sadly short-lived.

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