So I finally got down to making my schedule, and it seems like there is so little time! It's kind of nerve-wracking not going to lie, but I am VERY excited. If I stay in within the schedule everything should be under control.
Last class we had a group meeting and it was SO helpful. I was able to nail down my idea. I basically had an idea of how I wanted my film to end. A girl in a bicycle riding in her neighborhood at night screaming at the top of her lungs. I wanted her to be screaming in a cathartic way, out of her frustration. We had had a lesson on screenwriting and studied on the best ways to do an effective story. We studied how simplistic ideas are the best way to go in terms of the major conflict. I wanted to draw from something personal to me, so that I was able to portray the story in the most accurate way possible, saying my experience and drawing from within. So here is what my story is basically going to be about: How the immigration process can be incredibly frustrating and the uncertainty it brings, and how this can affect a family dynamic and in my story specifically a young teen. This is a POV that is often not portrayed in this kind of storylines, and it's different enough for me to shine a light on the realities of immigrating, and how they affected me. I believe it will also bring peace to myself and what I went through, and hopefully help others going through similar situations and making relatable content to those that are feeling how I felt back then. I am incredibly excited to head on and write this story, in the most authentic way I can.
Here are some of my notes from the group meeting:
-work backward start with the end scene and go from there.
screams for catharsis as an outlet --frustration with immigration and how it affected relationship with parents
lot of symbolism
metamorphosis Kafka
immigration bureaucracy
navigate and escape a life
Smithsonian
bike day
bike night
wheels turning imagery
symbolism
metaphor
circle imagery !!!!!
candle light in the dark
lawyer made process harder highlight that
explore experimental films!! genre research
simple story
end with girl in bike screaming
major conflict: frustrations with immigration process
different light on how the immigration process hard thing wasn't assimilating into the culture but the bureaucracy and legal part and family dynamic
research coming of age
graphic match !!!
bureaucracy
I decided I want to focus a lot on symbolism and subliminal messages, while I want to show how the bureaucracy affects families, I also want to focus on the frustrating effects of going through the process with your parents but not really, since each person that immigrates goes through a different set of challenges. I am going to research more coming of age films, and experimental films in the following posts soooost!
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