WHAT HAPPENED TODAY
The chosen pitches were announced today. Sadly, mine was not one of the chosen scripts- probably because I didn't keep it realistic enough and didn't sell the plot convincingly enough.
I was put into a group with Hannah, Dom, and Tony. Tony was our director, and together as a group we looked over his script.
Also together as a group, we unanimously agreed that we had to tone down his script as- looking at it realistically- it was extremely hard for us four students to accommodate for his settings and characters. Taking into account realism, we decided that a rewriting or at least a few revisions were in order.
- Changing the main antagonist from a Middle Eastern terrorist bomber named Muhammad Khalif to something more racially sensitive.
- Cutting down on the number of stock characters that require details we can't provide (i.e., multiple stock FBI agents with weapons and full gear)
- Changing or even fully removing settings that we can't provide for, i.e., an arms factory in Massachusetts.
- And changing from a newscast (which we felt we wouldn't have time to provide for and create in a professional, legitimate-looking manner with quality greenscreening and backdrops) to a radio.
IB LEARNER PROFILE
Today I had to be communicative with my group, and all of us had to be open minded, especially our director. Although we made a lot of changes, he stayed open minded to our ideas and agreed that we could as a group work together to make the film work.
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