Compromise

      Hello, it's been a while. I haven't been blogging because of the busy last week of the quarter but there has been some progress with the project to talk about. So on Tuesday we had group meetings with people who aren't in our group to talk about our progress. We initially had trouble coming up with a good background story for the film because of our semi generic plot. We wanted something different and something that will really bring attention to our audience (if it were a real movie).

    This group meeting event was actually extremely helpful to each of our individual group members. We each got different, brand new ideas thrown at us that we took advantage of. So basically before this meeting we only had an idea of our opening scene. These helpful students told us to keep the idea but to make it a bit more dark. We thought maybe we should make our character have this abusive household and her parents don't exactly believe in her. They don't want her to exceed her dreams in becoming an actress unless she is accepted into a good college. We want our character to come off as a strong girl who goes through many obstacles through her journey. Perhaps maybe she won't get accepted into a good school but decides to take on life on her own, without the negative enforcement from her parents.

    Back to the movie Little Miss Sunshine, in which we spoke about before. The little girl has a dream of winning the finals in a beauty pageant. It shows the road trip of her dysfunctional family and the obstacles they face to make their daughters dream come true. They don't make much of an income, the dad suffers with his job, the uncle is suicidal, the grandpa dies, the brother is mute, etc. This doesn't stop them from trying to achieve what the little girl strives for. During this trip, the brother discovers that he's colorblind and cannot exceed his dreams in becoming a pilot. All of these unfortunate events inspired me to come up with my background story. Instead of showing the difficult obstacles to overcome for an entire family, I'd rather show this for one single person who conquers her goals all by herself, There's something inspirational about an independent girl doing something so hard on her own. I want to show in the beginning scene that this girl lives a doubtful life full of unrealistic dreams that the audience can grow a connection with.

Arndt, Michael. "Little Miss Sunshine." Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Rotten Tomatoes. N.p., 12 Mar. 2017. Web. 26 Mar. 2017.



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