A Change of Plan - Portfolio Project Blog Post #3

 A CHANGE OF PLAN

The Original Idea

In my previous blog post, I mentioned our story including some form of extraterrestrial life. We envisioned a character going about their relatively "normal" life at their office job, completely unaware of a monster killing their coworker right outside. When we were brainstorming upon this idea, however, only three out of four of the group members were present, so about 25% of visions for this project were being left out. So, when we told this 25% about our crazy plans for an alien-monster-bloody-invasion plot, they gave us a wonderful warning:

That's ridiculously cliche.

Back to Square One... Or Two?

Cliche. Cliche. Man, how didn't we think of that?
Looking back, we were blinded by our ideas for the film in its entirety that we didn't realize that our opening was just some rip-off of every alien movie known to man. Our creativity was running wild, and we were picturing how our monster would look, act, and find its victims, even though  A) we were not planning on revealing the beast during the opening and B) this is just the introduction to our film. Now, we have taken a step back, and from now on, we're making sure that our video fits our criteria of being unique without revealing too much about the rest of the film.
Rather than starting over again, we are going to keep some of our original plans, such as the main character being alone and in an office.

Newly Found Chaos

We still have to discuss what our new plot is going to be, but I plan on showing some images to my group to describe the "feel" I'd like for us to present. The current genre I'm picturing is post-apocalyptic, which I think we can achieve well with the location we plan on filming at. The area is in an empty, industrial area with lonesome streets, so the isolated feeling could be presented well.