Partial Planning.

   Our group has been planning where and when we will gather to work. None of us are currently working so we will all likely be available mostly throughout the week. In our group-chat we have discussed places we can shoot. We will likely be shooting in Vista View Park since it resembles a battlefield. We will also be shooting some shots indoors, possibly in my house. All of our shooting will be shot on an actual camera, that belongs to Artur. We will be recording noise from either a headphone microphone or another microphone; we are still searching. We have also discussed that we can meet in Panera or the library to work on any editing. Our film will star one main character, who will be the veteran who suffers from PTSD. We plan this film to be a suspense/thriller. We will continue to research this genre and generate ideas for what we can include into our opening.

Research

    Our group's research for our final project has officially begun. We have decided to make an opening scene of a film about a soldier who suffers from PTSD. As a group, we all watched the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. This opening scene from Saving Private Ryan is very well executed. It emphasizes cinematic shots, dramatic facial expressions, music, and sound to express the seriousness of this matter. PTSD is horrible disorder affecting millions of people, mostly veterans, in the US. We want to use accurate representations of this disorder, like from SPR, to get our ideas and accurately present our opening's topic. We will be using several of the techniques from this film in our opening.