Some progress has been made

Our full group finally met today for the first time and we made progress on our opening. We actually did a lot, we discussed the plot, brainstormed further possibilities for the ending, storyboarded the first 15 shots of the opening, and came up with two candidates for a title: White Coat or The Alchemist. Obviously things such as our title aren't set in stone, but we are pretty confident in what we discussed.

I'll start off by saying that we kept the same idea of a person strapped to a chair but changed the setting a bit. In order to make production easier, we decided to not go with a pure black setting and instead incorporate the idea in a different way: change it to a laboratory. The laboratory basically serves the same purpose as I said in previous posts but allows us to change up the dynamic while allowing for an easier production phase.

We tossed around many ideas for the ending but couldn't agree on an effective and suspenseful ending that would be easy enough to produce with our budget of $0.

Since we couldn't come up with an idea we decided to not waste anymore precious class time and started storyboarding on what we did agree upon. The main character would be strapped to the chair and notice the tools in front of him/her. During these initial shots we want to show the titles from the contributors such as producer, director, and actors. The actor would eventually break the straps and get out of the chair and look

around in confusion, not knowing how they got there. This is the point where the actor turns and looks and either notices the lab itself, or sees a pathway to the lab, which would be the only pathway out. We haven't figured out which one we are going to do but will figure it out soon.

We storyboarded up to this point and will pick up next time we meet, if not we will have to do it another time because it's crucial  for the production phase. Next time, we also plan on coming up with the ending and the title for the opening.